By Scott Gilfoid: WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (35-0, 34 KOs) says he’d like to defend his WBC title next month on January 16th against 44-year-old #5 WBA Shannon Briggs (59-6-1, 52 KOs) if he’s willing to accept the money offer for the fight at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
Wilder, 6’7”, was recently disappointed when the opponent that he wanted to fight on 1/16, #3 WBC Vyacheslav Glazkov, jumped ship and decided he preferred to go after the IBF heavyweight title that was recently won by Britain’s Tyson Fury.