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By Jim Dower: Unbeaten light heavyweight contender Marcus Browne (20-0, 15 KOs) obliterated previously unbeaten #6 WBO Sean Monaghan (28-1, 17 KOs) by a 2 round knockout on Saturday night on Premier Boxing Champions on Fox FSI at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, New York.
By Scott Gilfoid: Former heavyweight title challenger Dominic Breazeale (17-1, 15 KOs) will be fighting Artur Szpilka (20-2, 15 KOs) in a scheduled 10 round fight on the undercard of the heavyweight title clash between WBC champion Deontay “Bronze Bomber” Wilder and Andrzej Wawrzyk on February 25 at the Legacy Arena in Birmingham, Alabama.
#7 WBC Szpilka is coming off of a bad 9th round knockout loss to Wilder from last January at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. Szpilka was knocked clean out by a right hand from Wilder in the 9th. It was a devastating knockout loss for the 27-year-old Szpilka.
As the rounds went by, Deontay Wilder waited like a lion in the grass watching a herd of gazelle, anticipating the right time to strike against Artur Szpilka.
Making the third defense of his world heavyweight title on January 16 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, Deontay Wilder continually pressed forward looking to score his 35th knockout in 36 professional fights.
By Allan Fox: Last Saturday’s fight between WBC heavyweight champion Deontay “Bronze Bomber” Wilder (36-0, 35 KOs) and Artur Szpilka (20-2, 15 KOs) brought in disappointing numbers on Showtime Championship Boxing. According to Dan Rafael, the Wilder vs. Szpilka fight averaged just 500,000 viewers on Showtime with a peak of 623,000 viewers for their fight at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
Wilder had previously averaged a whopping 2.179 million viewers for his one-sided victory over Johann Duhaupas four months ago in September 2015 on Premier Boxing Champions on NBC. That’s free television, so you would expect the Wilder-Duhaupas fight to bring in better numbers than a fight on a premium channel like Showtime that boxing fans have to pay extra to see.
By Paul Lam: Polish heavyweight contender Artur Szpilka gave a good account of himself on Saturday night against WBC heavyweight world champion Deontay Wilder, fighting on even terms before getting knocked out cold in the ninth round by a huge Wilder right hand which he never saw coming. It was a genuinely scary knockout, the kind which made you fear that someone might have just been killed in the ring.
Thankfully Szpilka regained consciousness in the ring, albeit after a tense couple of minutes of being laid out motionless on the canvas while onlookers waiting with bated breath. He spent the night in hospital as a precaution, with initial MRI and CT scans coming back clean.