Fury: I want to get through Klitschko, then take out Deontay

Image: Fury: I want to get through Klitschko, then take out DeontayBy Scott Gilfoid: Tyson Fury (25-0, 18 KOs) says he wants to whip the 39-year-old Wladimir Klitschko in their rematch in 2016, and then target WBC talent Deontay Wilder (36-0, 35 KOs) to try and take him out of the picture to snatch his strap. Fury, 27, says he’s really interested in the Wilder fight, as well he should.

It’s a fight that would bring Fury huge, huge money if he can get the fight. Never mind the fact that Wilder’s recent title defense against little known contender Artur Szpilka only brought in 500,000 viewers on Showtime Championship Boxing in the United States, a fight between Wilder and Fury would bring in huge ratings in the UK and the U.S. It would be a pay-per-view worthy fight in the UK, and would likely sellout a stadium.

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Charles Martin wants to unify the titles

Image: Charles Martin wants to unify the titlesBy Scott Gilfoid: Well, it looks like #13 IBF Dereck Chisora can forget about him fighting new IBF heavyweight champion Charles Martin (23-0-1, 21 KOs) in his next fight, because Martin is looking for much bigger game than a fringe level contender like the 32-year-old Chisora.

The 6’5” Martin says he was a unification fight against WBC champ Deontay Wilder or IBO/WBA/WBO belt holder Tyson Fury for his next fight. Martin wants the big money fights that count rather than wasting his tiome on the smaller fights that won’t bring him that much.

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Wilder-Szpilka averages 500K viewers on Showtime

1-deontay-wilder (14)By Allan Fox: Last Saturday’s fight between WBC heavyweight champion Deontay “Bronze Bomber” Wilder (36-0, 35 KOs) and Artur Szpilka (20-2, 15 KOs) brought in disappointing numbers on Showtime Championship Boxing. According to Dan Rafael, the Wilder vs. Szpilka fight averaged just 500,000 viewers on Showtime with a peak of 623,000 viewers for their fight at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.

Wilder had previously averaged a whopping 2.179 million viewers for his one-sided victory over Johann Duhaupas four months ago in September 2015 on Premier Boxing Champions on NBC. That’s free television, so you would expect the Wilder-Duhaupas fight to bring in better numbers than a fight on a premium channel like Showtime that boxing fans have to pay extra to see.

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Who’s the True King of Heavyweight division?

1-deontay-wilder (6)By Matthew J. Hunter: WBC Heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder defended his title in a 9th round knockout over Artur Szpilka last Saturday at the Barclay’s Center in Brooklyn. It was a competitive fight that featured the Polish underdog, who confused Wilder via his southpaw stance and superior footwork. While the fight itself wasn’t a massive fight, the event itself spurred the renewed interest in the Heavyweight division.

The Heavyweight division, which has in recent memory been a shadow of the golden era of the mid to late 20th century, has in the past couple years built a massive amount of momentum towards becoming a glamour division in boxing. At the top, depending who you ask, sits Tyson Fury or Deontay Wilder. They are both big heavyweights who seem to be vying for the heavyweight throne. After Wilder’s last fight, Fury entered the ring and cut a memorable WWE style promo. On one side there’s Fury almost singing, “There’s only one Tyson Fury,” and the other, the Alabama native going back to his Southern roots and stating, “I will baptize you.”
While Wilder may be a bigger name in the States, Fury beat the last King of the division in Vladimir Klitschko.

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Deontay Wilder – Alexander Povetkin negotiations begin

1-deontay-wilder (12)By Scott Gilfoid: The WBC ordered negotiations have begun between the promoters for WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (36-0, 35 KOs) and #1 WBC challenger Alexander Povetkin (30-1, 22 KOs) for a fight that is expected to take place between May and July of this year.

Deontay. 6’7”, is ready to get the aging 36-year-old Povetkin out of the way by beating him so that he can take on the bigger names in the division. Povetkin was already easily beaten by Wladimir Klitschko in 2013, but since then, Povetkin has beaten four softer opponents to get himself into the No.1 spot for another crack at the title.

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Peter Fury: Charles Martin is as good as Deontay Wilder

1-MARTIN VS GLAZKOV-FIGHT NIGHT-01162016-0092By Scott Gilfoid: Peter Fury, the trainer for IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, says he was impressed with what he saw of American heavyweight Charles Martin (23-0-1, 21 KOs) last Saturday night in him beating Vyacheslav Glazkov (21-1-1, 13 KOs) to win the vacant IBF heavyweight title in their fight in New York.

The 6’5” Martin twice put Glazkov on the canvas in the 3rd round. They were called slips, but the slips were initiated by Martin throwing powerful right hand shots at Glazkov, which caused him to hit the canvas while trying to get out of the way of them.

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Are you ready for the new era in the Heavyweight Division?

1-wilderszpilka (1)By Gerardo Granados: So it’s January now, maybe the reader knows that this month was named after Janus, an ancient god of beginnings and transitions. It is curious that Janus would help Mars to bring to us the fight fans, a promising new era in the heavyweight division. But, to be fair, it all begin back in November 2015 when Tyson Fury slain the dragon that kept the heavyweight division hostage in the dark for almost an entire decade. And now we can see how on the boxing media the heavies are regaining attention from fight fans.

The IBF moved extremely fast to strip the heavyweight Champion Tyson Fury from their strap. Last weekend we all saw how, a new manufactured IBF heavyweight belt holder was created, in perhaps one of the worst ways possible.

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Deontay Wilder vs. Alexander Povetkin in the works for May or June

1-wilderszpilka (4)By Scott Gilfoid: Negotiations are reportedly underway for a fight between WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (36-0, 35 KOs) and Alexander Povetkin (30-1, 22 KOs) for May or June of this year. Wilder vs. Povetkin is not a huge fight unfortunately, but Wilder has to get past the 36-year-old Povetkin for him to get to the bigger money fights against the likes of Tyson Fury, David Haye and Anthony Joshua.

It’ll be June at the latest. As for the location of the fight, it’ll be determined based on how the negotiations go and whether there is the need for a purse bid. If it does go to a purse bid, then the fight could wind up in Russia.

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Time to step up for Deontay Wilder

1-wilderszpilka (8)By Paul Lam: Polish heavyweight contender Artur Szpilka gave a good account of himself on Saturday night against WBC heavyweight world champion Deontay Wilder, fighting on even terms before getting knocked out cold in the ninth round by a huge Wilder right hand which he never saw coming. It was a genuinely scary knockout, the kind which made you fear that someone might have just been killed in the ring.

Thankfully Szpilka regained consciousness in the ring, albeit after a tense couple of minutes of being laid out motionless on the canvas while onlookers waiting with bated breath. He spent the night in hospital as a precaution, with initial MRI and CT scans coming back clean.

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Szpilka thinks Povetkin beats Deontay Wilder

1-wilderszpilka (6)By Scott Gilfoid: The recently knocked out Artur Szpilka (20-2, 15 KOs) says he suffered a broken left hand in his 9th round knockout loss to WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (36-0, 35 KOs) last Saturday night at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. It’s unclear what round the injury to Szpilka’s hand occurred, as he was still using his left hand all the way up until the end of the fight.

In fact, Szpilka was attempting to throw a wide left hook at the time that Deontay clocked him with a right to the head in round nine. The punch from Wilder knocked Szpilka unconscious for a short period. Perhaps if Szpilka didn’t attempt to throw the left hand, he would have been better off. The southpaw Szpilka was having some success using his right hand jab in the last couple of rounds until being knocked out by Wilder in the ninth.

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