Wilder: Tyson Fury says he wants to fight me after Wladimir

By Boxing News - 01/15/2016 - Comments

WILDER VS SZPILKA-WEIGH IN-01152015-9746(Photo credit: Stephanie Trapp/SHOWTIME) By Scott Gilfoid: With a big money unification fight just over the horizon, WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (35-0, 34 KOs) is having a hard time staying focused at the task at hand in defending his title against a highly motivated Artur Szpilka (20-1, 15 KOs) on Saturday night.

Deontay has already spoken to IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, who has told him that he wants to fight him in a unification fight once he takes care of Wladimir Klitschko in their rematch in the first half of 2016.

Fury is coming to the fight this Saturday to watch Deontay against Szpilka. Obviously, Fury wouldn’t be doing that if he wasn’t motivated to take the fight with the talented 6’7” American Deontay.

“Tyson [Fury] said he’d love to fight me after Wladimir Klitschko so I’m trying to make him promise me that. Hopefully 2016 will see that happen,” Deontay said to skysports.com. “I need an amazing knockout that people will remember.”

Well, if I were Deontay, I wouldn’t be looking too of an amazing knockout on Saturday night, because he might scare away Fury in the process. You have to figure that the only reason that Fury is sniffing out a fight against Deontay is because he sees some kind of weakness in his game that he thinks he can exploit somehow. I mean, Fury is like a shark smelling blood in the water, and he thinks he’s going to sign up for a fight against Deontay and take advantage of it.

The thing is Deontay appears to intentionally take it easy on his opponents in the ring at times, and he doesn’t go after them the way he could if really wanted to KO them in a second. Deontay wants to give the fans a show so that he can entertain them. He doesn’t want to go out there and brain his opponents in lightning fashion the way that Mike Tyson and a young George Foreman used to do it.

Fury needs to do his part by beating Wladimir in their rematch so that he can get to a big money fight against Wilder. You can bet that Deontay will follow through with his mission by obliterating Szpilka on Saturday, and then defeating #1 WBC mandatory challenger Alexander Povetkin. It’s Fury that is on shaky ground in having to deal with what will be a very, very motivated and likely angry Wladimir looking to avenge his loss from last November.

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Fury, 27, is going to be up against it like he’s never been before. I’m not sure that Fury will be able to handle the fire power and wrath that Wladimir will be unleashing on him in the rematch. You can bet that Wladimir’s older brother Vitali Klitschko will have given Wladimir a long talking to, and I imagine Wladimir is going to want to tear Fury apart by the time he gets him in the ring.

“It’s been over 115 years since they had a heavyweight world title fight in Brooklyn and I want to do it in great fashion,” Wilder said.

Earlier on Friday, Deontay weighed in at 228lbs for the Szpilka fight. Deontay looked in great shape. Szpilka weighed in at 233lbs.



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