(Photo Credit: SHOWTIME) By Scott Gilfoid: After WBC heavyweight champion Deontay “Bronze Bomber” Wilder (35-0, 31 KOs) takes care of business with challenger Artur Szpilka (20-1, 15 KOs) on January 16th of this month, Deontay would like to face IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Tyson Fury in a unification fight, provided that Fury gets past Wladimir Klitschko in their rematch.
Wilder believes that the light hitting Fury will take the fight with him. In a sign of how confident he is that he would beat the 6’7” Fury, Deontay says he would even travel to the UK and fight Fury in London to give him home advantage, because he does not think it would help him one bit.
Deontay says it will not go to the scorecards, so the judges would not play a part in the fight at all. Deontay would take the judges out of it by planting Fury on the canvas in a pile.
“He’s just a tall guy,” Deontay said about Fury. “He don’t have no power. He likes to act a fool in the ring. He likes to have fun in the ring. I knocks them out. I offered him to fight me. I offered him to be the first guy that I defended my title against. Maybe they forget about that. They wasn’t ready. They didn’t want that fight. They wanted Klitschko. Nobody wants to fight. He already knows what the results would be. These guys know I’m very serious about this. I can be a tennis play, a golf player and even a soccer player. When it comes down to getting inside the ring for the fight, all that goes out of the window. Think Tyson, even though he talks a lot, he’ll fight. I’ll go to London for that. I’ll go to his territory for that one. It’s not going to go to the judges,” Deontay said.
I have to agree with Deontay. I think he would do a number on Fury by knocking him clean out and not letting the judges do their jobs by scoring the fight. Yeah, the judges could certainly score rounds and stuff, but those scores would likely abruptly halt in the round that Wilder KOs Fury.
If Fury gets past Klitschko in their rematch in early 2016, I think he will have little choice but to fight Deontay in a unification fight. If Fury chooses to defend all of his titles against the contenders in the division, I think there is too much of a chance of him losing to someone and then winding up without a big payday. Even if Fury chose to milk his titles, I could see him losing to one of the bottom feeders in the division.
I mean, if a weak puncher like Steve Cunningham was able to drop Fury, then any bottom ranked contender would be a threat to beating him. You have to see it that way. That is why I think Fury is better off taking a big cash out fight against Deontay so that he can at least get that one big payday fight. The money that Fury makes in the rematch with Klitschko will obviously be good, but I still think Klitschko will be getting the lion’s share of the cash due to the rematch clause in their contract.
Nevertheless, in a fight against Deontay, that is where Fury will make the big money for the first time and it’ll be a be a different story. Fury will get a big enough payday to where he can ride off into the sunset and retire after the fight. If it’s one of those situations where he wants to get away from people so that they don’t give him grief about the loss, Fury can always move out of the country and become an expatriate or something.
I’d be surprised if Fury doesn’t choose to fight Wilder in his next fight after the Klitschko fight. Of course, Fury could always choose to fight Anthony Joshua in a domestic dustup, but that fight will not have as much meaning to it, because Joshua is just a British and Commonwealth heavyweight champion rather than a world champ, and he’s not fought anyone with talent yet. Joshua is just a guy that beat one decent heavyweight in Dillian Whyte, and defeated 14 obscure guys that were dug up for him by his promoter.
“I’m just a different fighter than these guys in the heavyweight division. My athletic skills, the way I move in the ring, my speed, the power that I have, the awkward style that I have. Do I need to say more? These guys know I am very serious about this. Nobody wants to fight [me], they already know what the results will be,” Wilder said.
“Keep fighting, sooner or later celebrate. Keep fighting, keep winning, keep knocking guys out,” Wilder said. “Once you keep doing those things, you can’t be denied, no matter what. I think unifying the titles … Once you have that strong American heavyweight to unify the division, to hold all the titles, that’s when I feel true stardom will come. Once I unify the division, I think it’ll be a dramatic change.’’
Wilder and Szpilka will be battling on Showtime Championship Boxing on January 16th at 9:00 p.m. ET/6:00 p.m. PT.
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