(Photo credit: Lucas Noonan/Premier Boxing Champions) By Scott Gilfoid: WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (35-0, 34 KOs) says he doesn’t like the comments that IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Tyson Fury (25-0, 18 KOs) recently made about the 50-year-old Lennox Lewis, and he plans on giving Fury a real hiding when he eventually gets him inside the ring with him.
Just when that will happen is anyone’s guess. Heck, by the time Deontay faces Fury in the future, Fury will unlikely still be a world champion. Someone is going to get to Fury soon and take his scalp and his world titles at the same time.
“I didn’t like what he said about Lennox Lewis, so I’m going to whoop him for Lennox,” Deontay said during his recent press conference with his next opponent Artur Szpilka (20-1, 15 KOs).
“Lennox Lewis is a hater of Tyson Fury. He’s a jealous old man. He’s a jealous old man because I’m at the top of the world and he’s a has-been,” Fury said via MMA Hour to skysports.com. “Whenever Lennox Lewis wants to come out of retirement, I’m here waiting for him. I don’t care how old he is.”
Lewis isn’t the only older fighter that Fury called out. He also challenged Wladimir’s older 44-year-old brother Vitali Klitschko to a fight. Thus far, Vitali has refused to take the bait. However, it’s possible that he could change his mind if Fury beats Wladimir a second time. I mean, I can’t see Wladimir trying to get a third fight against Fury if he loses the rematch. It would be forlorn if Wladimir gets beaten again and he keeps bellyaching about wanting to keep fighting Fury no matter what. At some point, Wladimir is going to need to get a clue that he simply can’t beat Fury.
If Fury can beat Wladimir in the rematch in early 2016, and if Wilder can beat Szpilka and then Alexander Povetkin, then a fight between Wilder and Fury will be a possibility. I just do not know if Fury can beat Wladimir a second time. It would be good for Wilder if Fury wins because a Wilder vs. Fury fight would be huge in the UK. You cannot really sell a Wladimir vs. Wilder fight in the U.S unfortunately, because it’s not a fight that a lot of boxing fans would be interested in seeing at this point.
Wilder has a fight next month against Szpilka on January 16th at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. The fight will be televised by Showtime Championship Boxing. Wilder is looking forward to the contest because Szpilka has been flapping his gums about wanting to take the fight to Wilder. This is the kind of fighting style that Wilder really enjoys. He doesn’t want to be fighting opposition that he has to chase around the ring, because it’s easier for him to chop guys down that come to fight.
Szpilka doesn’t have the wheels to enable him to run even if he wanted to. Speaking of running, Fury was running like mad in his fight against Wladimir last month. That was awful to look at. You would hope that Fury wouldn’t put on his track shoes in a fight against Wilder, because it would be such a shame to see Fury running around the ring trying to avoid Wilder all night long.
“When it all boils down to it like I said before, and I’ll say it again, I am on a mission,” Wilder said. I am on a mission, and nobody’s going to stop me, I promise you that — nobody. I don’t care how confident they are, I don’t care who they got in their corner, I don’t care if they devoted their life back to being in the ring. I think Tyson is still worth the hype. Me and him been in that fight for four years now and I think it’s still going to be the biggest thing that happening if he continues to have this belt, but even more now because I don’t like something that he did.”
I don’t blame Wilder for overlooking Szpilka. Nothing against Szpilka, but he just doesn’t appear to have the talent to give Wilder any problems in that fight. Of course, Wilder is also looking past Alexander Povetkin, who Wilder will need to fight in his next fight after the Szpilka contest.
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