Deontay Wilder wants Anthony Joshua in 2017

11/05/2016 by Boxing News

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By Scott Gilfoid: WBC heavyweight champion Deontay “Bronze Bomber” Wilder (37-0, 36 KOs) wants to take IBF heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua’s title from him in 2017 if the fight can get made. Wilder sees Joshua’s December 10th fight against #8 IBF Eric Molina (25-3, 19 KOs) as a prelude to a fight between the two of them in 2017.

Wilder is just hoping that the 26-year-old Joshua (17-0, 17 KOs) can get past the hard hitting 6’4” Molina, because the challenger will be coming into the ring to fight his heart out on December 10. Molina won’t be an easy out for Joshua, as he’ll be looking to bounce right hands off the chin of the British fighter, especially if he bum rushes him like he does against all of his opponents.

Wilder expects Eric Molina to give Joshua problems

11/03/2016 by Boxing News

By Scott Gilfoid: WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder expects former world title challenger Eric Molina (25-3, 19 KOs) to potentially give IBF heavyweight title holder Anthony Joshua (17-0, 17 KOs) problems in their fight on December 10 at the Manchester Arena in Manchester, England.

Wilder thinks that Molina’s heart and determination to win will make him fight harder. Molina will take more shots in this fight in order to try and win. He’ll land more shots. Joshua will need to be able to take some punches for a change, because the guys he’s been fighting haven’t been throwing punches.

They’ve been just standing around looking too timid to let their hands go. The last time Joshua fought guys that threw punches back at him was in the 2012 Olympics, when he won one controversial fight after another against guys that appeared to get the better of him.

Deontay Wilder expected to fight in spring 2017

10/27/2016 by Boxing News

By Eric Baldwin: WBC heavyweight champion Deontay “Bronze Bomber Wilder (37-0, 36 KOs) should be fully recovered from his injured right hand and biceps and is expected to fight in the sport, according to Showtime sports vice president Stephen Espinoza. He’s hoping the 31-year-old Wilder will be able to fight several times in 2017.

One of the fights Espinoza is hoping to see the 6’7” Wilder in is a unification match against IBF heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua. We’ll have to see if Wilder and his manager Al Haymon are interested in facing the 26-year-old Joshua next year. They can’t force them o take the fight with Joshua if they don’t want the fight.

2017: A Heavyweight Odyssey

10/21/2016 by Boxing News

By Matt Plumridge: We all know what it feels like to look back and reminisce about the good ol’ days. Heavyweight boxing gets more than a fair share of pondering, whether it be Joe Louis, Muhammad Ali or Mike Tyson; all involved in the greatest era ever, depending on your age.

Much more difficult to smell the coffee that is right in front of you and know that one day you will be telling your kids about how it was the best you ever drank.

At the moment, the selection of Heavyweights on offer would put a Starbucks menu to shame. We have classic brews in Wladimir Klitschko and Alexander Povetkin; Frothy coffee’s in the form of Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder; and the new breed of large T’s in Joseph Parker and Luis Ortiz.

A wasted 2016

10/12/2016 by Boxing News

By Brian Garnett: As we rapidly approach the end of 2016, boxing fans can only hope that we get better matchups in 2017. We, as boxing fans have had to endure many lulls through the years but 2016 brought new levels of inactivity amongst the top tier fighters. The heavyweight division, which was poised for a reemergence as the premier division in boxing, was hurt badly by the inactivity of Tyson Fury whom owns the WBA, WBO after being stripped of the IBF. Injuries and cancellations limited Deontay Wilder as well this year leaving only Anthony Joshua as the only active heavyweight champion. The welterweight and junior middleweight divisions were even more inactive despite none of the major players being sidelined due to injury.

The PBC seems to be the party most responsible for this most recent lull in good fights being made due to the fact that most of Al Haymon’s stable has taken 2016 off for the most part. Danny Garcia, Keith Thurman, Shawn Porter, Adrien Broner, Jermell and Jermall Charlo, Julian Williams, and Erislandy Lara have all fought only once this year and none of these fighters have dates for the last quarter of the year.

The Heavyweight Division Is Back

10/12/2016 by Dom_Chapman

By Dominic Chapman: After years of being in the darkness and outshone by the more exciting lighter weight divisions, big time heavyweight boxing looks to be back. With Wladimir Klitschko’s dominance and not so exciting fighting style, not to mention lack of challengers with real pedigree many fans have became disillusioned with the sports glamour division.

It took Britain’s Tyson Fury to dethrone the long reigning heavyweight King Klitschko in Germany and get fans talking about the heavyweights again. However with a rematch clause in the contract the two were scheduled to fight again and with the first fight not being the most entertaining of bouts, it would be a fight mainly for the hardcore boxing fans and not one to capture the public’s imagination.

WBC update regarding the status of the heavyweight division

10/07/2016 by Boxing News

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The WBC heavyweight championship of the world was scheduled to be contested on May 21, 2016 in Russia. The Bout was Champion Deontay Wilder’s mandatory defense of his title against Mandatory Challenger Alexander Povetkin. The Bout was the result of a purse bid the WBC conducted and which promoter World of Boxing won.

On May 13, 2016 VADA reported to the WBC that Alexander Povetkin’s anti- doping test that had taken from his April 27, 2016 sample pursuant to the WBC Clean Boxing Program yielded an adverse finding for the banned substance Meldonium.

Deontay Wilder says Tyson Fury is “unfit to perform”

09/24/2016 by Boxing News

By Scott Gilfoid: WBC heavyweight champion Deontay “Bronze Bomber” Wilder (37-0, 36 KOs) doesn’t think too much of IBO/WBA/WBC champion Tyson Fury (25-0, 18 KOs) after learning of the British heavyweight pulling out of his rematch with Wladimir Klitschko last Friday for the second time. Wilder, 6’7” says that Fury lacks discipline for the sport, and he sees the 28-year-old as a sad sight to behold.

In recent photos of Fury, he’s looking kind of thick around the midsection area. Even if Fury hadn’t pulled out of his scheduled October 29 rematch against the 40-year-old Wladimir, it would be awfully tough for him to carve that weight off of his frame to get slimmed down enough to be competitive against the 6’6” Ukrainian.

Joshua doubts he’d be given credit if he beats Deontay

09/16/2016 by Boxing News

By Scott Gilfoid: IBF heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua (17-0, 17 KOs) is bellyaching about not being given credit for his wins, and he feels that even if he defeated undefeated WBC champion Deontay “Bronze Bomber” Wilder (37-0, 36 KOs), he wouldn’t be given credit for the win by the boxing fans.

Joshua thinks the fans would see Wilder as a flawed fighter and wouldn’t give him the credit for the victory. You hate to see a fighter bellyache like Joshua is doing when he’s not having his back slapped for beating the guys that have dug up for him to fight by his promoter Eddie Hearn.

If Joshua had been fighting quality guys like Luis “The Real King Kong” Ortiz, Kubrat Pulev and Bryant Jennings, I think he would have been given his credit.

WBC president interested in Wilder vs. Joshua fight

09/13/2016 by Boxing News

By Scott Gilfoid: WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman is interested in a unification match between World Boxing Council heavyweight champion Deontay “Bronze Bomber” Wilder and IBF champion Anthony Joshua in the near future once Wilder comes back from his surgery on his injured right hand and bicep and fights the winner of the Bermane Stiverne vs. Alexander Povetkin fight.

Wilder, 30, isn’t expected back in the ring until the first quarter of 2017. He should be fighting the Stiverne-Povetkin winner at that time. Wilder has already said that he wants to fight Joshua and IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Tyson Fury in the near future.