By Scott Gilfoid: WBC heavyweight champion Bermane Stiverne (24-1-1, 21 KOs) says that there’s nothing that can save challenger Deontay Wilder (32-0, 32 KOs) in their fight this Saturday night on January 17th.
Stiverne says he’s going to punish the 29-year-old Deontay by making him feel a lot of pain during the beating he plans on giving him before he finally puts him out of his misery by knocking him out. Stiverne figures that Deontay will fall apart once he starts feeling hard punches for the first time in his pro career.
Stiverne thinks that Deontay’s opposition, which arguably hasn’t been good at all times, has kept him from being tested in terms of his chin. Stiverne plans on testing him and he sees Deontay falling apart almost immediately once the punches start being thrown by him.
“@BronzeBomber has been talking a lot but nothing is going to save him. I’m going to burp him like a baby,” Stiverne said via Dan Rafael of ESPN.
Stiverne really thinks that Deontay is going to be looking for help in this fight. This could prove interesting if Deontay is the one that comes out administering the beating in this fight. He is after all the younger, taller, faster, bigger and stronger fighter of the two. I mean, the only things that Stiverne has going for him in this fight is a slight advantage in experience and possibly a better chin than Deontay.
We can’t really know for sure how good or bad Deontay’s chin is because he’s never been hit enough in his past fights to tell is whether he’s got a weak chin or not. All we know is that Deontay was once stopped while in the amateur ranks, which isn’t surprising because Deontay took up the sport late in life at 19 and only had a small handful of fights in the amateurs before winning the bronze medal in the 2008 Olympics.
We do know that Deontay wasn’t knocked out in the Olympics, and we also know that Stiverne wasn’t good enough to make the Olympics. So that tells us a little something about Stiverne and Deontay.
The thing with Deontay is that he frequently explodes on his opponents in the same way that a young Lennox Lewis used to do when he was fighting in the early part of his career. Deontay reminds me a lot of a young Lewis, especially when Lewis was still fighting in the amateurs.
If you look at Lewis’ fight against Riddick Bowe in the Olympics, you can see a lot of Deontay in Lewis. In that fight Lewis started swinging with both hands in a flurry after the bell rung in the 1st round, and he did a great job in beating Bowe.
Deontay is the same way. If he comes out nervous on Saturday night against Stiverne, he could unload on him with the same fierce flurry of power punches that we saw from Lewis in the early part of his career, and I’m not too sure that Stiverne will be able to take that kind of an attack.
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