Deontay Wilder boxing news
By Scott Gilfoid: Promoter Eddie Hearn wants Deontay Wilder and his team to stay away from fantasy numbers when it comes time for them to begin negotiations for the Anthony Joshua fight today. Hearn doesn’t want to miss putting the Wilder-Joshua fight together by Wilder’s side pricing themselves out for the fight.
By Jeff Aranow: In an experiment to test how popular heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder is to the average American, Eddie Hearn, the promoter for IBF/WBA heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua, asked a couple of pedestrians on the street of New York if they’d ever heard of Wilder. Not surprisingly, the pedestrians said they don’t know who Wilder is.
By Juan Flores: IBF/WBA heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn confirms that he’ll be meeting this week with WBC heavyweight champion Deontay “Bronze Bomber’ Wilder’s advisers Al Haymon and Shelly Finkel to plan a unification fight for 2018.
By Scott Gilfoid: Eddie Hearn says no one from heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder’s team approached him to start negotiations for a fight against his star fighter Anthony Joshua. Hearn says it was he who contacted Wilder’s team about having him fight his stable fighter Dillian Whyte on February 3.
By Sean Jones: Former WBC heavyweight champion Bermane “B-Ware” has made it official that he’ll be going back to the drawing board and coming back with 100% commitment following his 1st round knockout loss to WBC heavyweight champion Deontay “Bronze Bomber” Wilder (39-0, 38 KOs) last Saturday night at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
By Eric Thomas: WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman says heavyweight champion Deontay “Bronze Bomber” Wilder’s performance last Saturday night against Bermane Stiverne reminded him at times of great heavyweights of the past in Larry Holmes, Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson.
By Scott Gilfoid: WBC heavyweight champion Deontay “Bronze Bomber” Wilder doesn’t bring much value to a fight against IBF/WBA champion Anthony Joshua, according to promoter Eddie Hearn. He says there’s no comparison between the two heavyweights as far as commercial value goes. As such, Hearn says that they’ll have to pay Wilder far more than his worth for him to accept a unification fight against Joshua.
By Scott Gilfoid: Anthony Joshua’s promote Eddie Hearn says Deontay Wilder will be defending his WBC heavyweight title next against Dominic Breazeale, not Anthony Joshua. Hearn says Wilder has already been told that he’ll be defending against Breazeale (19-1, 17 KOs), who defeated Eric Molina (26-5, 19 KOs) by an 9th round stoppage last Saturday night in a World Boxing Council title eliminator at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
By Jeff Aranow: World Boxing Council president Mauricio Sulaiman was on hand last Saturday night to watch the destruction of the WBC heavyweight champion Deontay “Bronze Bomber” Wilder (39-0, 38 KOs) leveled on former world champion Bermane “B-Ware” Stiverne (25-3-1, 21 KOs) in halting him in the 1st round at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
By Jeff Aranow: Deontay Wilder’s manager Shelly Finkel says he had no luck when he reached out to Anthony Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn recently to try and put together a fight between the two heavyweight champions. Finkel says when he asked Hearn when can Deontay Wilder get the Joshua fight, he never phoned him back.