By Scott Gilfoid: WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (36-0, 35 KOs) isn’t too worried about getting past his aging mandatory challenger Alexander Povetkin (30-1, 22 KOs) in May of this year.
This is a mere formality for the tall power-punching 6’7” Bronze Bomber Wilder. He’s more focused on getting the top British heavyweights to take their scalps. Deontay specifically wants Tyson Fury, Anthony Joshua and David Haye.
Why Deontay wants Haye is anyone’s guess. Haye is just an ex-champion that is in the infancy of a comeback, which probably won’t pan out for him once he gets past the level of scrub fighters. Haye is going to do well as long as he’s carefully hand-picking his opponents, but when he looks for a decent fighter, I expect him to be found out again. Haye is just too small for the heavyweight division in my view.
By Jeff Aranow: With challenger Alexander Povetkin’s promoter Andrei Ryabinski winning the recent purse bid for the fight against WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (36-0, 35 KOs), the fight will now be taking place in Moscow, Russia rather than the United States. 
By Scott Gilfoid: Tyson Fury (25-0, 18 KOs) wants to fight the winner of next month’s April 9 bout between IBF heavyweight champion Charles Martin and Anthony Joshua. But more specifically, Fury BADLY wants to fight Joshua in what he considers as a “super fight.” 
By Scott Gilfoid: In what could be seen as a bad omen for #1 WBC challenger Alexander Povetkin (30-1, 22 KOs); former heavyweight world champion Lennox Lewis is giving him the advantage in his title fight against WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (36-0, 35 KOs) in their fight on May 21 on Showtime Boxing. 
By Bob Smith: Late last year, following the surprise defeat of Wladimir Klitschko at the hands of Tyson Fury, noted author Bob Smith wrote a prescient article on the importance of size to the outcome of a fight in the heavyweight division. It is worth a read if you have not looked at it before:
By Gav Duthie: Its arguably taken 20 years but the heavyweight division, the fulcrum of boxing, is something to get excited about again. It has been two decades since the all American showdown between Evander Holyfield and Mike Tyson (Nov 1996) which put Evander at the sports summit. 
By Scott Gilfoid: As I predicted, WBC heavyweight champion Deontay “Bronze Bomber” Wilder (36-0, 35 KOs) will be forced to defend his WBC title in Russia against his #1 WBC mandatory challenger Alexander Povetkin (30-1, 22 KOs) in the coming months. Fight News is reporting that the Wilder-Povetkin fight will be taking place in Russia. Povetkin’s promoter Andrey Ryabinsky of the World of Boxing is saying. 
By Scott Gilfoid: WBC heavyweight champion Deontay “Bronze Bomber” Wilder (36-0, 35 KOs) says it never entered into his mind to vacate his WBC title after promotional team lost the purse bid to the promoters for his mandatory challenger Alexander Povetkin (30-1, 22 KOs) last week. 
By Scott Gilfoid: IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Tyson Fury really worked over WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder and the unbeaten heavyweight contender Anthony Joshua this weekend. In an interview, Fury said that he’s hoping Joshua wins his fight against IBF heavyweight champion Charles Martin on April 9, because he’d like to face Joshua in a mega-fight in the UK. 
By Scott Gilfoid: Earlier on Friday, Russian promoter Andrey Ryabinsky of World of Boxing won the purse bid to stage the title fight between WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (36-0, 35 KOs) and his mandatory challenger Alexander Povetkin (30-1, 22 KOs). Ryabinksy is the promoter for the 36-year-old Povetkin, and he made a winning bid of $7.15 million to Wilder’s promoter Lou Dibella’a bid of $5,101.000.42.