By Scott Gilfoid: Unbeaten heavyweight Deontay Wilder (29-0, 29 KO’s) is in the process of coming over to the UK to help former WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (26-2, 24 KO’s) to get ready for his fight against unbeaten heavyweight contender Tyson Fury (21-0, 15 KO’s) for their clash on September 28th.
Haye, 32, is already being helped out by the big 6’7” Ukrainian Alexander Dimitrenko and the 6’8” Richard Towers with sparring. But adding Deontay, 6’7”, will really complete the camp for Haye, as the power and the speed that Deontay has going for him with far surpass anything than the slow, light-hitting Fury can bring to the ring in this fight.
Deontay will travel to London soon to begin three weeks sparring with David Haye as Haye takes on Tyson Fury. Wilder has been in the UK several times, most recently when he knocked out Audley Harrison inside of a round in Sheffield. Wilder also sparred with Haye when Haye challenged Wladimir Klitschko. He has been informed by his legal team he will now be allowed to travel abroad following a domestic violence arrest in Las Vegas that scuttled a scheduled bout with Derek Chisora.
By Scott Gilfoid: Unbeaten heavyweight contender Deontay Wilder (29-0, 29 KO’s) says that a lot of people want to see him fight longer fighters in order to see more of him, but he prefers to get the job done quickly as possible when he’s in the ring by knocking his opponents out in speedy fashion.
(Photo credit: Tom Casino/Showtime) By Scott Gilfoid: In response to the appeal that Sergei Liakhovich (25-6, 16 KO’s) is making to the California State Athletic Commission to have his recent 1st round knockout loss overturned and changed to a “no contest,” his conqueror Deontay Wilder (29-0, 29 KO’s) is suggesting that they have a nice little sparring match so that Deontay can show him that the win wasn’t controversial.
(Photo by Michael Snyder / The Desert Sun) By Ivan Ivanov: According to a press release in “fightnews.com” and other sites, Liakhovich and his attorney will file an official protest with the California State Athletic Commission citing illegal rabbit punches that have caused his stoppage in the first round at the hands of D. Wilder. Photos of the fight show that they have a point, Wilder clearly landed on the back of Liakhovich’s head. Whether it was intentional or not, Deontay managed to get his very long arms around the guard of his opponent and behind the legal punching area.
By Scott Gilfoid: David Haye (26-2, 24 KO’s) is still holding out hope that the 6’7” unbeaten heavyweight Deontay Wilder (29-0, 29 KO’s) will lend a hand in preparing him for Tyson Fury (21-0, 15 KO’s) by working as a sparring partner for Haye’s September 28th fight in Manchester, UK.
Knockout punchers fascinate us, especially when they are heavyweights. Breathing life and debate into the big boys division is Deontay Wilder, the Alabamian who earned America’s last medal in (men’s) boxing at the Olympics, taking home the bronze from the Beijing games of 2008.
By Scott Gilfoid: The boxing world was impressed with unbeaten heavyweight contender Deontay Wilder’s sensational 1st round knockout victory over Sergei Liakhovich last Saturday night in Indio, California, but it doesn’t look like the victory did anything for Deontay as far as the Ring ratings goes.
By Scott Gilfoid: Unbeaten heavyweight Deontay Wilder (29-0, 29 KO’s) has been getting a lot of comparisons to former heavyweight great Mike Tyson with his incredible power, and with the fast start of his career in terms of consecutive knockouts.