By Scott Gilfoid: This Thursday on May 14th a news conference is scheduled for the announcement of the June 13th fight between WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (33-0, 32 KOs) and challenger Eric Molina (23-2, 17 KOs). The fight will be taking place on Showtime Championship Boxing from the Bartow Arena, in Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
With this being a voluntary defense for the 6’7” Wilder, he’s choosing a lower level ranked contender in 33-year-old Molina. But this is a perfectly suitable opponent for a voluntary defense because Molina has the kind of fire power and talent to make it an interesting fight.
By Scott Gilfoid: The hard hitting #12 WBC heavyweight contender Eric Molina (23-2, 17 KOs) believes he’s got the fight against WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (33-0, 32 KOs) next on June 13th at the Bartow Arena, in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. 
(Photo credit: Hoganphotos/Golden Boy Promotions) By Scott Gilfoid: Unbeaten WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder’s next fight for June 13th to be announced this week. The lucky opponent is likely to be #12 WBC Eric Molina. If the fight does get made as Deontay expects it to be, it’ll give him a great opponent for him to show off his stuff in front of boxing fans. 
By Scott Gilfoid: WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder doesn’t think too much of former eight division world champion Manny Pacquiao for failing to disclose his shoulder injury well before the fight last Saturday night against Floyd Mayweather Jr. 
By Gav Duthie: The curse of the voluntary defence strikes again. Like a coiled snake the champion is picking on the weakest prey available to strike on when the choice is given. After Deontay Wilder 33-0 (32) became the first American since 2006 to win a heavyweight world title he talked Klitschko, he talked Fury and 5 months later the rumors are that he is going to fight Eric Molina 23-2 (17). 
By Scott Gilfoid: #12 WBC Eric Molina (23-2, 17 KOs) is one of the names that is being mentioned as a possibility for the first title defense for WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (33-0, 32 KOs) this June, according to Dan Rafael of ESPN. 
By Scott Gilfoid: WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder is picking Floyd Mayweather Jr. to defeat Manny Pacquiao on Saturday night. Wilder sees Mayweather’s experience, strong defense and his ability to adapt to any situation as the reason why he’s picking Mayweather to come out of the 12 round fight with his hand raised by referee Kenny Bayless at the end of it. 
By Scott Gilfoid: WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (33-0, 32 KOs) says he was surprised at how old IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (64-3, 53 KOs) looked recently in him having to struggle to defeat the light hitting American Bryant Jennings (19-1, 10 KOs) last month in their fight on April 25th at Madison Square Garden in New York. 
By Scott Gilfoid: Unbeaten heavyweight talent Deontay Wilder (33-0, 32 KOs) will be back in the ring next month on June 13th looking to extend his unbeaten streak against a still to be determined opponent in Birmingham, Alabama.