Deontay Wilder willing to fight Tyson Fury in UK

By Boxing News - 02/05/2016 - Comments

1-deontay-wilder (4)By Scott Gilfoid: WBC heavyweight champion Deontay “Bronze Bomber” Wilder (36-0, 35 KOs) says he’s willing to travel to the UK to fight IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Tyson Fury (25-0, 18 KOs) in front of his own home crowd this year in a unification fight. Wilder will need to win his next fight against his WBC mandatory challenger Alexander Povetkin in April, and Fury will need to beat Wladimir Klitschko in their rematch this year for the fight to have a good chance of happening.

While I do think Wilder will beat Povetkin to do his part to make the fight happen, I don’t think Fury will be able to get past Wladimir a second time. I mean, Fury barely beat Wladimir last November in winning a close 12 round decision.

This is with Wladimir fighting like he had no clue whatsoever in what to do against Fury. However, now that Wladimir and his team have had time to dissect what went wrong the last time, they will be more than ready to deal with Fury’s awkward fighting style in the rematch.

I suspect it’ll be an easy night’s work. But for the sake of argument, if Fury does beat Wladimir in the rematch, then we could be seeing a huge stadium type fight between him and Deontay this year. Fury has been opening his trap lately about wanting the fight against Deontay, so we’ll see if he’s serious or not when push comes to shove.

“When he got in the ring I told him I’ll come to his backyard and I meant that,” Wilder said of Fury to Radio Row. “I’m willing to come over there. If he wins, I’m willing to come over there to take the titles. I’m very comfortable with England – I’ve got a lot of friends, a ton of fans. I feel that when they say heavyweight champion of the world – that’s a world traveler, not just in your home country. When my legacy’s over and done, I want to be labelled as someone who went behind enemy lines, fought everybody and had great exciting fight every time I came back. I’m looking to do remarkable things in boxing, looking to bring it back like it once was, even better. I think I can do it. I can see it happening. I will be remembered as the man who brought boxing back single-handedly.”

Wilder has other nice options for big money fights. He can always look to face Britain’s Anthony Joshua for a big payday. He could also fight the winner of the Dereck Chisora vs. Kubrat Pulev fight. I think that would be a good fight. There’s also a potential unification fight against IBF champion Charles Martin out there for Wilder. He’s not limited to just Fury. Even a fight against Wladimir might be a possibility if Fury beats him a second time.

Wladimir will obviously want another shot at a world title, and he can’t exactly go looking for an immediate third fight against Fury if he loses the rematch. Wladimir has always wanted to try and win the WBC title. This would be his big chance to try and snatch it from Deontay. I could see the two of them fighting in a big stadium in Germany in 2016.

It’s definitely an option if Fury gets cold feet if/when he beats Wladimir and starts back stepping at the thought of sharing the ring with Deontay. I mean, I wouldn’t blame Fury for deciding not to take the Deontay fight because I don’t see it as a winnable one for him. I wouldn’t respect Fury if he ducked the Deontay fight, but I wouldn’t blame him for deciding not to take it.

It’s a bad match-up for Fury, because unlike Wladimir, Wilder is not reluctant to throw his right hand power shots. Wilder will commit to those punches with everything he had, unlike Wladimir, who was throwing them half-heartedly last November in his fight against Fury. Deontay would put everything he had into his right hands, and I can’t see Fury taking more than a half dozen of them flush without him dropping for the 10 count and needing to be helped back to his stool afterwards.

Deontay isn’t afraid to fight in the UK in front of a huge bunch of pro-Fury fans. Deontay shuts out the fan noise when he fights, and his main focus is looking to take out his opponents.



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