By Tim Fletcher: WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (35-0, 24 KOs) believes he’ll be ready to face IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (64-3, 53 KOs) in late 2016 if he’s still a world champion by then.
Wilder wants to get his mandatory defense out of the way against mandatory Alexander Povetkin, provided that Povetkin wins his next fight against the 6’8” Mariusz Wach on November 4th in Russia.
(Photo credit: Lucas Noonan/Premier Boxing Champions) By Scott Gilfoid: As I predicted, the talented WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (35-0 34 KOs) put in a virtuoso performance in battering Johann Duhaupas (32-3, 20 KOs) and winning an 11th round TKO win on Saturday night in front of a jammed pack Legacy Arena in beautiful Birmingham, Alabama. It was a privilege to watch the superstar Wilder work tonight in slowly dismantling the iron-chinned Duhaupas round by round until the referee Jack Reiss had to pull the plug on the fight in the 11th round.
Duhaupas looked like he was ready to be officially knocked out when Reiss decided to stop the contest rather than letting Wilder put Duhaupas down on the canvas. It was just too much of a beating for Reiss to stand there and let it continue to happen before his eyes.
(Photo credit: Lucas Noonan/Premier Boxing Champions) By Tim Fletcher: WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (35-0, 34 KOs) gave #11 WBC Johann Duhaupas (32-3, 20 KOs) a terrible beating in stopping him in the 11th round on Saturday night in a fight that was televised by Premier Boxing Champions on NBC at the Legacy Arena in Birmingham, Alabama.
Wilder hurt the 32-year-old Duhaupas with some uppercuts in the 11th round. Wilder the unloaded a storm of unanswered uppercuts to the head of Duhaupas until the referee Jack Reiss stepped in and halted the fight at 0:55 of the round. Duhaupas was still on his feet but he was cowering and just taking awful punishment. It’s possible that Duhaupas might have survived the onslaught, but he wasn’t going to win. Duhaupas was able to survive a similar flurry of punches from Wilder in the 10th and 5th rounds.
BIRMINGHAM, AL (September 16, 2015) – Next Saturday night, heavyweight world champion Deontay “The Bronze Bomber” Wilder (34-0, 33 KOs) will make his second world title defense in his home state when he takes on France’s Johann “Reptile” Duhaupas (32-2, 20 KOs) in the feature bout of the evening on Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) on NBC live from the Legacy Arena in Birmingham, Alabama.