(Photo credit: Esther Lin/Showtime) By Scott Gilfoid: On March 15th, unbeaten American heavyweight contender Deontay Wilder (30-0, 30 KO’s) will be looking to notch his 31st consecutive knockout in his 12 round scheduled bout against Malik Scott (36-1-1, 13 KO’s) on Showtime. Deontay, 6’7″, wants to impress the American fans watching him from home in this WBC heavyweight eliminator bout in order to give them a glimpse of what could be a future heavyweight champion of the world.
If Deontay can get past Scott then the next step will be Wilder facing the winner of the Bermane Stiverne vs. Chris Arreola bout for the WBC heavyweight strap.
The Deontay-Scott fight will be taking place at the Coliseo Ruben Rodriguez, in Bayamon, Puerto Rico. It’s not the ideal venue for Deontay, because I’m sure that he would much prefer that the Scott fight take place in Las Vegas, but Golden Boy Promotions are trying to take advantage of WBA/WBC light welterweight champion Danny Garcia’s Puerto Rican roots by staging the fight in Puerto Rico in hopes that Garcia can somehow build a huge fan base of there similar to Miguel Cotto. Garcia will be fighting Mauricio Herrera in the main event on the card.
“I’m ready to show the world that the Bronze Bomber is here, and that he’s ready to be a world champion,” Deontay said RingTV. “I’m not looking past Malik, but I’m definitely looking through him, because I want this.”
Deontay could be the future star of the heavyweight division, and if he can get a hole of one of the heavyweight titles, we may see him go on a long Klitschko type reign where he holds one or more of the world titles for many years without getting beaten. We could conceivably see Deontay winding up with an incredible knockout record and popularity not seen since Mike Tyson’s days as the heavyweight champion.
Deontay went onto trash the British heavyweights Dereck Chisora and Tyson Fury, calling Chisora a “one-trick pony” due to his habit of throwing mostly over-hand rights and trying to wear down out of shape opposition like Kevin Johnson. Deontay also said this about Fury: “He’s got to be ashamed of himself to come in at such weight.”
Fury weighed in at a blubbery 274 lbs for his recent mismatch against Joey Abell, and he looked like he’d trained on a diet of donuts a chocolate M&Ms for the past 8 months. Deontay thinks Abell could have knocked Fury out if he had a better chin and if he had a little more power. Fury was there to be knocked out if Abell was a little bit better than he was.
Deontay is on a different path than Fury and Chisora, who are looking to meet up in the Summer in a WBO eliminator to try and become the WBO mandatory for champion Wladimir Klitschko. To be sure, one of them will get locked in as the mandatory for Klitschko, but we’re talking about being locked in to be knocked out and beaten badly. Neither Fury or Chisora are anywhere close to Wladimir in the talent department.
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