Stiverne-Wilder

(Photo credit: Esther Lin/Showtime) By Scott Gilfoid: If there’s one thing that the giant sized American heavyweight Deontay Wilder (32-0, 32 KOs) is expecting from boxing fans after Saturday night is him not getting any credit for having beaten WBC heavyweight champion Bermane Stiverne (24-1-1, 21 KOs) in their fight at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Indeed, Deontay, 6’7”, believes that people will discredit his win over Stiverne by saying that the Haitian fighter wasn’t any good to begin with. It would be kind of like how people discredited Malik Scott after Deontay stroked him out in one round last year.

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(Photo credit: Esther Lin/Showtime) By Scott Gilfoid: At today’s final press conference, WBC heavyweight champion Bermane Stiverne (24-1-1, 21 KOs) and challenger Deontay Wilder (32-0, 32 KOs) were both in fine form in jawing back and forth with one another to hype their fight for this Saturday night on January 17th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. Deontay, a much better talker a quicker with than Stiverne, got the better of their trash talking by a long mile.

Stiverne, a quiet type, was out of his element in trying to match wits with Deontay, who is clearly one of the best trash talkers the heavyweight division has seen since Muhammad Ali.

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(Photo credit: Esther Lin/Showtime) By Scott Gilfoid: Former heavyweight world champion Evander Holyfield is giving unbeaten American talent Deontay Wilder (32-0, 32 KOs) a good shot at beating WBC heavyweight champion Bermane Stiverne (24-1-1, 21 KOs) on Saturday night as long as the 6’7” Deontay stays on the outside and uses his huge height and reach advantage to keep the shorter, heavily built Stiverne at the end of his punches.

Above all, Deontay can’t let the 6’2” Stiverne to get inside of his reach because he’ll then open himself up to getting hit by the hard hitting Canadian fighters’ best power punches.

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(Photo credit: Esther Lin/Showtime) By Scott Gilfoid: Deontay Wilder (32-0, 32 KOs) expects not only to soundly beat WBC heavyweight champion Bermane Stiverne (24-1-1, 21 KOs) this Saturday night in their title fight, but also put many of his team members out of work at the same time with the victory at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. Deontay wants to beat 6’2” Stiverne in such a convincing manner that his team members will be out of work.

“I am super-confident and I can’t wait. Someone is going to lose their job. I am going to put his whole team out of commission. That’s my promise,” Deontay said.

That would be interesting if Stiverne either cleaned out his team after a knockout loss to Deontay, or his team members abandoned ship after he lost his title, leaving one by one.

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By Scott Gilfoid: Boxing fans are going to be in for what could be the best fight of the year this Saturday night when WBC heavyweight champion Bermane Stiverne (24-1-1, 21 KOs) defends his WBC title against what could be America’s best heavyweight talent in Deontay Wilder (32-0, 32 KOs) on January 17th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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(Photo credit: Esther Lin/Showtime) By John Stevens: As an obsessive boxing fan and participant for the last 40+ years I wanted to write in and say some words regarding this very important and interesting fight. Thus – I wanted to present a clear and open synopsis, looking at both men individually and seeing exactly where we are in this very intriguing contest which to me looks like an explosion waiting to happen!

The shadow of the great Wladimir Klitschko hangs over this of course, as he is the man to beat for the victor of this fight (But that is another story!) – However, Wladimir must surely be looking to wind down within the next few years after a long and pretty incredible career, thus leaving the door open for one of the two guys in this contest to take over his crown, not to mention a pretty long line of tasty heavyweights coming up through the ranks right now who are looking to stake their claim too. Exciting times ahead for sure; but I digress – lets look now at the two protagonists in this battle and see what we’ve got……

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(Photo credit: Naoki Fakuda)By Scott Gilfoid: At his grand arrival earlier Tuesday at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada, heavyweight knockout artist Deontay Wilder (32-0, 32 KOs) promised that his fight against WBC heavyweight champion Bermane Stiverne (24-1-1, 21 KOs) this Saturday night on Showtime will be giving boxing fans their money’s worth when the two punchers step inside the ring to start slugging it out in front of what will should be a huge Showtime audience.

“Here me now. Yall about to get your money’s worth on Saturday. The wait is over,” Deontay Said.

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By Scott Gilfoid: Boxing great George Foreman sees this Saturday’s fight between WBC heavyweight belt holder Bermane Stiverne (24-1-1, 21 KOs) and American talent Deontay Wilder (32-0, 32 KOs) as a bout that the 6’7” Deontay can easily win if he comes out on fire and uses his power, speed, size and aggressiveness to take the fight to the 36-year-old Stiverne.

Deontay has the size advantage, as well as the speed, youth and power advantage going for him. Foreman doesn’t think that Deontay should play it safe with Stiverne, because he feels this could lead to a fight where Stiverne gets opportunities to land his own big shots rather than it being a one-sided affair with Deontay getting rid of the smaller, aging champion as quick as possible.

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