Deontay Wilder boxing news
By Jeff Aranow: A fight between WBC heavyweight champion Deontay “Bronze Bomber” Wilder and undefeated contender Luis “King Kong” Ortiz is in the works for the fall on Showtime Championship Boxing, according to RingTV.com. However, #1 WBC Bermane Stiverne is Deontay’s mandatory at this time.
By William Mackay: Dillian Whyte is not a happy person right now with Deontay “Bronze Bomber” Wilder choosing to reject the $3 million offer from Whyte’s promoter Eddie Hearn for a fight between them. Whyte, #5 WBC, wants a crack at Wilder’s WBC heavyweight title. The unbeaten Wilder (38-0, 37 KOs) would fight Whyte for the right amount of money, but the offer that was made by Hearn was $4 million too little.
By Scott Gilfoid: Eddie Hearn, the promoter for IBF/WBA heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua and Dillian Whyte, is interested in having unbeaten WBC champion Deontay “Bronze Bomber” Wilder travel over to the UK to fight his two heavyweights, starting with Whyte. As of now, the cash isn’t there from Hearn’s side to get Deontay to fight the once beaten Whyte in the UK.
By Scott Gilfoid: Matchroom Sport promoter Eddie Hearn wants WBC heavyweight champion Deontay “Bronze Bomber” Wilder (38-0, 37 KOs) to get his fighter #5 WBC Dillian Whyte (21-1, 15 KOs) a title shot in what would be a voluntary defense for Wilder in September or October or possibly later. Deontay has a mandatory defense due against Bermane Stivern, the #1 WBC ranked contender.
By Allan Fox: WBC heavyweight champion Deontay “Bronze Bomber” Wilder is picking former 2 division world champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (49-1-1, 34 KOs) to defeat unbeaten Kazakhstan fighter Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (37-0, 33 KOs) on September 16. Wilder doesn’t say why he’s siding with Canelo to beat Golovkin, but it’s possible that he feels that Golovkin isn’t fighting at a high level right now after his less than stellar performances in beating Daniel “Miracle Man” Jacobs and Kell “Special K” Brook in his last 2 fights.
By Scott Gilfoid: WBC heavyweight champion Deontay “Bronze Bomber” Wilder says he was never knocked out by Wladimir Klitschko in the past when he was assisting him with sparring to get him ready for one of his fights. Sky Sports commentator Johnny Nelson said that Wilder had been knocked out in the past by Wladimir, and also dropped with a body shot. It’s unclear really where Nelson got this information. He obviously wasn’t in training camp with Wilder and Wladimir to see the sparring first hand.
By Earl E: There are countless writings published of people’s opinions on the pound-for-pound best boxers in the sport today. Instead, I give you the best pound-for-pound paper champions that presently the sport has to offer. What we expect from great boxers, such as toughness, perseverance, and challenging themselves against the best boxers, these boxers have none or want no part of. These boxers are the total opposite, they are tough nor are they willing to challenge themselves against the very best. First to the podium:
By Scott Gilfoid: Deontay “Bronze Bomber” Wilder (37-0, 36 KOs) says the boxing public is absolutely begging for a unification fight between him and IBF/WBA heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua (19-0, 19 KOs) to take place. Wilder, 6’7”, says he wants to give the fans what they want to see so that he can show them who the best heavyweight is in the division. Wilder says the winner of the Wilder-Joshua fight will be the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world; although there would still be one world title out there not in Deontay’s grasp and that’s the WBO belt held by Joseph Parker.
By Scott Gilfoid: Tyson Fury has put on too much weight for him to ever come back to boxing, says Deontay Wilder. The 28-year-old former heavyweight champion Fury (25-0, 18 KOs) let his weight get out of control after his win over Wladimir Klitschko in 2015, and let himself balloon up to 365 pounds. Just this week, Fury proudly announced that he’d lost 18 pounds, which obviously just a drop in the bucket for the 115 lbs. that he needs to take off to get back down to his old fighting weight of 250lbs. Deontay doesn’t believe it to be possible for Fury to burn all that blubber off in order to resume his career.