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.
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. 
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. 
(Photo credit: Naoki Fakuda) By Dan Ambrose: It took WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (36-0, 35 KOs) a little longer than fans expected it would take him to dispatch #8 WBC challenger Artur Szpilka (20-2, 15 KOs) last Saturday night in their fight on Showtime. Wilder says he had a difficult time adjusting to the 26-year-old Szpilka’s southpaw style and the crafty way he moved around the ring all night long. 
(Photo credit: Ed Diller/DiBella Entertainment) By Jim Dower: In a sign of how closely contested last Saturday’s title fight between WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (36-0, 35 KOs) and Artur Szpilka (20-2, 15 KOs) was as far as punches thrown in the fight, Deontay only had a small 12 punch advantage in punches landed in their fight at the Barclays Center in Brookyn, New York. 
By Scott Gilfoid: David Haye (27-2, 25 KOs) returned to the ring last Saturday night in stopping an over-matched, inexperienced 33-year-old Mark De Mori (30-2-2, 26 KOs) in the first round at the O2 Arena in London, UK. Haye was so excited about his easy win over De Mori that he’s now saying that he believes he’s only two or three fights away from fighting for a world title in the heavyweight division. 
(Photo credit: Ed Diller/DiBella Entertainment) By Scott Gilfoid: WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (36-0, 35 KOs) says he can’t wait to get Britain’s Tyson Fury (25-0, 18 KOs) inside the ring in 2016, because he wants to hurt Fury really bad and give him a beating. Unlike his opponent from last night, Artur Szpilka (20-2, 15 KOs), Deontay says he will not show any remorse after he bludgeons Fury into submission in their unification fight in the near future. Wilder want to take care of Fury and knock him out. 
(Photo credit: Ed Diller/DiBella Entertainment) By Tim Fletcher: #1 WBC mandatory challenger Alexander Povetkin (30-1, 22 KOs) was in attendance last Saturday night to watch WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder’s title defense against Artur Szpilka (20-2, 15 KOs) at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. 
(Photo credit: Ed Diller/DiBella Entertainment) By Listen: Deontay Wilder (36-0 35KO’s) ended his Heavyweight title defense last night with an emphatic counter right hand knockout, stopping a tough, Artur Szpilka (20-2, 15 KOs) in the 9th round. Szpilka was carried out in a stretcher, and our prayers are with him and his family, hoping for a speedy recovery, which looked promising. 
(Photo credit: Stephanie Trapp/SHOWTIME) By Scott Bells: Deontay Wilder (36-0, 35 KOs) made the third defence of his WBC Heavyweight title last Saturday night with a devastating one-punch knockout against a game challenger Artur Szpilka (20-2, 15 KOs) in a 9th round knockout at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. The fight was stopped by referee Michael Griffin at 2:24 of round 9 after Wilder flattened the southpaw Szpilka with a right hand.