By Scott Gilfoid: Deontay “Bronze Bomber” Wilder says he absolutely wants a unification fight against IBF/WBA heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua by the end of this year for all the marbles in the division. This would be for bragging rights says Wilder. The talented 6’7” Deontay plans on picking up the WBO heavyweight strap from Joseph Parker before that, so that he’ll be coming into the Joshua unification fight with the WBC and WBO titles in his possession.
By Scott Gilfoid: WBC heavyweight champion Deontay “Bronze Bomber” Wilder (38-0, 37 KOs) says he’s fighting on another level as IBF heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua (18-0, 18 KOs) right now in his career, and he believes he has the more experience of the two. Wilder, 31, is a little older, faster, taller and more powerful than the 27-year-old Joshua.
By Joseph Hirsch: The heavyweight division is not stacked right now, certainly not as thick with talent as some of the lighter weight classes. Alexander Povetkin’s potential matchup with Deontay “the Bronze Bomber” Wilder was scratched due to a failed drug test; Tyson Fury’s rematch with Wladimir Klitschko was also cancelled for a failed drug test (among other issues). The first match between Fury and Klitschko, while an upset in Fury’s favor, wasn’t much to write home about. Despite these drawbacks though, there is still enough going on in the division to excite the diehard fan.
Luis “King Kong” Ortiz is perhaps the best of the three men in the division not named Klitschko (the other two being Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder), but since Ortiz is a southpaw with a granite chin who is murder on the inside, you can expect the management teams of both Wilder and Joshua to swerve him for as long as possible.