Boxing Would Benefit Financially With Deontay Wilder As It’s Heavyweight Champion

wilder7By Chester Rivers: Reading between the lines you all know what the title is insinuating. For those who still don’t understand let me put it in simpler terms. Boxing is more profitable when an African American holds the heavyweight title.

Race is as taboo of a subject in an open forum as they come but it is also the subconscious force that drives boxing’s revenue. Let’s not forget boxing is the sport that gave us terms such as “the great white hope”.

Ironically boxing is the first professional sport in American that allowed people of color to participate. While Jack Johnson could not use a public restroom of his choice in 1910, he would participate in the one of the largest gates in boxing history. Johnson, the first black man to hold the heavyweight title, defeated Jim Jeffries in front of 30,000 boxing fans. The fight itself was billed as Jeffries being the hope of the entire white race to regain the title.

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Avoided or Avoiding

deontay63By Rhodri Cording: This is one of the most divisive topics relating to the sport we love and enjoy at present, just who is being avoided and who is doing the avoiding. I would like to present a few case studies of undefeated fighters that are still fighting to try and get to the bottom of this never ending talking point and give you my opinions of this matter.

Before I start, I must say that it is often not the fighters that are doing the avoiding. Promoters wouldn’t be doing their jobs properly if they were putting promising, inexperienced fighters in the ring with a level that was too high for them too early on.

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Wilder-Stiverne purse bid on 9/12

deontay72By Scott Gilfoid: There’s a purse bid scheduled for September 12th for WBC heavyweight champion Bermane Stiverne and Deontay Wilder in case two fighter’s promoters are unable to negotiate a fight between them for later this year.

If goes to purse bids, then you can expect a fight to take place by November or December this year unless Stivern’s hand injury still isn’t healed by then.

If Stiverne is still injured, I wouldn’t be surprised if the World Boxing Council gives him the tag of ‘Champion in recess” so that Deontay can fight for the WBC title against the next available contender.

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Deontay Wilder will hurt Stiverne if he lands his right hand, says Goosen

deontay999By Scott Gilfoid: Unbeaten heavyweight contender Deontay Wilder (32-0, 32 KOs) is poised to face WBC title holder Bermane Stiverne later this year once his wounded hand heals up enough for them to face each other.

While many boxing fans believe that Stiverne will win based on his superior experience, trainer Joe Goosen believes that Deontay’s power and size might be too much for Stiverne in this fight.

Goosen was able to see Deontay’s punching power close up when he knocked out his fighter Malik Scott in the 1st round earlier this year. Deontay got perfect leverage on a 1-2 combination to the head of Scott that knocked him out. There was no getting up from those punches.

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Lucas Browne: I’d knock Deontay Wilder out, I punch harder than him

deontay533By Scott Gilfoid: #8 WBC heavyweight contender Lucas “Big Daddy” Browne wasn’t impressed with what he saw of #1 WBC Deontay Wilder (32-0, 32 KOs) last Saturday night in watching him destroy a badly over-matched Jason Gavern (25-17-4, 11 KOs) in four rounds at the StubHub Center in Carson, California.

Deontay didn’t destroy Gavern, one of his former sparring partners, immediately in the 1st round like he’d done 18 times in the past against other opposition. The fact that Deontay let Gavern survive, almost out what appeared to be kindness, has Browne thinking that Deontay isn’t as powerful as many boxing fans think.

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Brook tops Porter: Dirrell defeats Bika; Wilder destroys Gavern

brook56By Scott Gilfoid: In a highly controversial decision, Britain’s Kell Brook (33-0, 22 KOs) defeated IBF welterweight champion Shawn Porter (24-1-1, 15 KOs) by a 12 round majority decision on Saturday night at the StubHub Center in Carson, California. The final judges’ scores were 114-114, 117-111, and 116-112. The scores were way off from what happened in the ring. I had Porter winning 11 of the 12 rounds.

Brook was clinching between 10-15 times per round all night long without having points taken away from him. Porter would come in and Brook would grab him almost immediately. The pattern would be repeated as soon as the referee broke the two fighters.

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StubHub purses: Bika $700K, Dirrell $500K, Porter $500K, Brook $200K, Wilder $50K

Sakio Bika and Anthony Dirrell(Photo credit: Esther Lin/Showtime) By Scott Gilfoid: WBC super middleweight champion Sakio Bika (32-5-3, 21 KOs) will be getting the biggest purse in tonight’s Showtime fight card from the StubHub Center in Carson, California.

Bika is getting $700,000 to defend his title against unbeaten #6 WBC Anthony Dirrell (26-0-1, 22 KOs), according to Dan Rafael of ESPN. Bika’s adviser is Al Haymon, which would explain why he’s getting paid so well. Dirrell is getting paid well too. His purse for tonight is $500,000.

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Wilder says he’ll be more technical against Gavern

Deontay Wilder and Jason Gavern(Photo credit: Esther Lin/Showtime) By Scott Gilfoid: Rather than going out and bludgeoning his opponent 37-year-old Jason Gavern with some tremendous right hands in the 1st round for a quick knockout, #1 WBC Deontay Wilder (31-0, 31 KOs) says he plans on showing more of his technique by being technical in the fight before he eventually obliterates Gavern early in the fight on Saturday night at the StubHub Center in Carson, California.

Deontay wants to work on some things to get himself ready for his title shot against WBC heavyweight champion Bermane Stiverne later this year. Deontay has the right guy for him to work on his technical skills in Gavern, because he’s not much a threat to him and he can experiment with this like uppercuts and left hooks.

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Previewing Bermane Stiverne vs. Deontay Wilder WBC heavyweight title fight

Deontay Wilder(Photo credit: Esther Lin/Showtime) By Francis: Having watched the available tapes of both Deontay Wilder and Bermane Stiverne, I have come to a conclusion that if they face each other, I favor Stiverne to win most likely by knockout. The reasons for my prediction are:

1. Stiverne seems to have more technical skill and boxing IQ than Wilder.

2. Stiverne has better defence.

3. Stiverne has faced far better opposition than Wilder, thus has more elite experience.

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Wilder: I’ll definitely be fighting Tyson Fury next year

wilder56By Scott Gilfoid: American heavyweight talent Deontay Wilder (31-0, 31 KOs) foresees himself meeting up with British heavyweight Tyson Fury (22-0, 16 KOs) next year in a fight that Wilder believes will be a huge fight that would make promoters unnecessary.

Presumably, Wilder believes that Fury will win his next fight against Dereck Chisora on November 22nd, and then beat IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko after that. The Fury-Chisora fight is a WBO heavyweight eliminator bout with the winner becoming Wladimir’s WBO mandatory challenger.

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