Deontay Wilder boxing news
AUSSIE puncher Lucas “Big Daddy” Browne says he’d be prepared to step in against the winner of the upcoming WBC heavyweight title fight between Chris Arreola and Bermane Stiverne.
Browne enhanced his standing with the Mexico City-based sanctioning body in Sheffield, England on Saturday night by blasting out Stiverne’s countryman Eric Martel Bahoeli in five rounds and he’s eager for sterner tests.
By Scott Gilfoid: #3 WBC heavyweight contender Deontay Wilder (31-0, 31 KO’s) says he’d gladly face IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko next if the big 6’6″ Ukrainian is interested in facing him next, according to RingTV. “I would definitely take it,” said Deontay. With his huge punching power and his big 6’7″ size, Deontay will likely be ignored by Wladimir due to the danger involved for the Ukrainian.
Deontay is the mandatory challenger for the WBC belt, so he’ll be getting a crack at the winner of the Bermane Stiverne vs. Chris Arreola fight this year. If Deontay beats the Arreola-Stiverne winner, he’d be the new WBC champ, but he would be in a different lane as Wladimir. There’s a good chance that Wladimir wouldn’t bother trying to unify the belt if Deontay is the WBC champion, because with his huge size, fast hands and one punch power, Deontay is someone who could spoil Wladimir’s party with a single shot.
By Scott Gilfoid: Earlier today, former heavyweight champion of the world Mike Tyson made a comment about unbeaten heavyweight contender Deontay Wilder (31-0, 31 KO’s), saying that he wants to see how the 6’7” Deontay will react when he faces someone that will punch him back. Deontay then fired back with some comments of his own, and this led to James Toney joining in by telling Deontay he was off base for returning fire on Tyson.
Mike Tyson said this about Deontay as quoted by Showtime: “We have to see what happens when he [Deontay] gets hit back. Anyone can knock someone out, even my 3-year-old son.”
Haters Will See You……SMDH! #SoTrueAintIt!! pic.twitter.com/2vzeft7CMt
— Deontay Wilder (@BronzeBomber) April 7, 2014
By Scott Gilfoid: With three 1st round knockouts in his last 4 fights, #3 WBC heavyweight contender Deontay Wilder (31-0, 31 KO’s) still can’t please his critics. They take shots at the talented 6’7” Wilder no matter how well he does in the ring, and he feels that he’s in a situation where he’s going to take flak no matter what he does. As such, Deontay decided to fire back at his “haters” today by describing the dilemma he’s in each time he fights. If Deontay knocks his opponents out, fans think it’s because he doesn’t talent to out-box them. But if he out-boxes them, then fans will say he couldn’t knock them out.
As the late basketball great Wilt Chamberlain once said “Nobody roots for Goliath.” It’s so true.
Deontay recently scored his 31st consecutive knockout win in destroying Malik Scott by a 1st round knockout last month. Immediately after the knockout, some boxing fans started saying that Scott took a dive because of how seemingly easy the knockout was for Deontay. But what fans failed to realize is that Deontay has the kind of size and power to where he makes knockouts look easy because of the leverage and just plain awesome power he gets on his shots.
By Robbie Bannatyne: Elite sport, especially boxing, has a lot to do with levels and timing. Fortunately for Deontay Wilder he seems to be approaching elite level in the Heavyweight division at just the right time.
At 30 years old, many consider the ‘Bronze Bomber’ to be somewhat of a late bloomer. But for many Wilder is blooming at just the right time.
For starters, his arrival at elite level coincides perfectly with the period at which the Klitschko era is coming to an end. The famous Ukrainian brothers, in particular Wladimir, the long reigning WBA, IBO, IBF, WBO and Ring Magazine champion have had a vice like grip on the division for a near decade.
Jay Deas, longtime trainer/manager of heavyweight contender Deontay Wilder is setting the record straight about a recent article in the Daily Star which Deas says misquoted Wilder. The following is from Deas.
“The article stated that Deontay called Tyson Fury a clown, that Fury talks without delivering the goods and that people are laughing at him and not with him. The article went on to quote Deontay as stating Fury was a mascot. I was there when the interview was going on via speaker phone.
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— SHOWTIME SPORTS (@SHOsports) March 18, 2014
By Scott Gilfoid: Unbeaten Deontay Wilder (31-0, 31 KO’s) could well be on his way to becoming the next American heavyweight world champion by later on this year if Chris Arreola doesn’t win the WBC title first by beating Bermane Stiverne on May 10th in their fight for the vacant WBC title. Deontay, 6’7”, has the power, size and boxing skills to not only win the WBC title by beating the Stiverne-Arreola winner, but also holding onto the strap for a long period of time.
The only guy that could potentially give Deontay problems is IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko.
By Scott Gilfoid: With his 1st round knockout win over Malik Scott last weekend, heavyweight Deontay Wilder (31-0, 31 KO’s) registered his third 1st round knockout in his last four fights, and he showed the boxing world that he’s a forced to be reckoned with in the division. Deontay believes he’s got the top heavyweights running scared of him after that KO, and he can totally understand why. When you get a guy with 31 straight knockouts with the size and power that he has, it causes other heavyweights to want to play it safe and take on other opposition rather than risk their hide in facing a guy with his kind of power.
“I’m the guy right now all the heavyweights are running scared of me, and I don’t blame them,” Wilder said via ESPN. “I would not fight Deontay Wilder unless I had to. I know that I could me with either hand…I will keep doing what I do. Malik was supposed to go rounds with me. Is he a bum?”
By Tom McQueen: Deontay Wilder has made a name for himself for two reasons; Firstly for his impressive and obvious power resulting in 31 straight knock outs as a professional. And secondly as a fighter who has taken on, disappointingly, a large number of poor opponents when many have wanted him to move on and step up.
These points at first seem obvious and fair, but looking at how “The Bronze Bomber” has progressed over the last few years and since turning professional I am now starting to think that the criticisms placed on Deontay are not only unfair but possibly even distracting us from a great talent that should be appreciated.
By Scott Gilfoid: Heavyweight Deontay Wilder (31-0, 31 KO’s) is amused that his many detractors are looking for different reasons to try and explain why he was able to knockout Malik Scott (36-2-1, 13 KO’s) so easily last Saturday night in Puerto Rico. Some fans can’t comprehend that a fighter like Deontay can knockout an opponent so easily.
Instead of realizing that Deontay has the kind of one-punch power that makes him capable of knocking out his opponents with a single shot, fans are seeing something sinister going on with them thinking that the fight was fixed with Scott throwing the fight on purpose for money. It just goes to show you how some fans have wild imaginations and can’t quite grasp the reality of what they’re seeing in Deontay.