By Dan Ambrose: Last Saturday night’s fight between WBC heavyweight champion Deontay “Bronze Bomber” Wilder (37-0, 36 KOs) and #9 WBC Chris Arreola (36-5-1, 31 KOs) averaged 1.8 million viewers on Premier Boxing Champions on Fox, according to ESPN.
A mostly one-armed Wilder battered Arreola for eight rounds until the fight was stopped by Arreola’s corner after round eight at the Legacy Arena in Birmingham, Alabama.