(Photo credit: Esther Lin/Showtime) By Papam Lord: I will start by saying if WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder and IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko fought right now, I think Wladimir wins by a 12 round decision. However, give it another year and the 6’7″ Wilder, after beating Britain’s Tyson Fury and possibly David Haye, will have the tools to do a proper demolish job on the 39-year-old Wladimir.
At some point during the fight with Wladimir, Wilder will land that big right and that is all he would need. I was as surprised as everyone else when Deontay fought an intelligent and mature fight against former WBCn heavyweight champion Bermane Steverne in beating him by a 12 round unanimous decision earlier this month on January 17th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.