Wilder-Duhaupas

Wilder-Duhaupas averages 2.2 million viewers on NBC

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By Allan Fox: Last Saturday’s fight between WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (35-0, 34 KOs) and #11 WBC Johann Duhaupas (32-3, 20 KOs) averaged just 2.2 million viewers with a peak of 3 million viewers on Premier Boxing Champions on NBC from the Legacy Arena in Birmingham, Alabama.

The numbers were obviously better than what you’d normally see on an average Showtime or HBO boxing event, but the fact that the fight was on free television on NBC during primetime means that not many fans were interested in this particular fight.

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Wilder – Duhaupas punch stats

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1-Screen Shot 2015-09-26 at 10.53.09 PMBy Jim Dower: WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (35-0, 34 KOs) enjoyed a huge advantage in punches landed over his opponent Johann Duhaupas (32-3, 20 KOs) last Saturday night in their fight at the Legacy Arena in Birmingham, Alabama.

Showing off his ability to throw a lot of punches when needed, the 6’7” Wilder connected on 326 of 587 punches for a connect percentage of 56 percent, according to CompuBox stats. That’s a very high connect percentage for a heavyweight.

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Duhaupas: The referee shouldn’t have stopped it

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By Tim Fletcher: #11 WBC Johann Duhaupas (32-3, 20 KOs) is unhappy that the referee Jack Reiss stopped the fight in the 11th round last night in Duhaupas’ fight against WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (35-0, 34 KOs) at the Legacy Arena in Birmingham, Alabama.

Duhaupas, 34, had taken too much punishment in the 11th round from Wilder for Reiss to let the fight continue, so he stopped the fight at 0:55 of the round rather than letting Duhaupas take further shots. Duhaupas wanted to finish the fight on his feet by going the full 12 rounds instead of being on the receiving end of a TKO defeat.

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Deontay Wilder wants Klitschko in 2016

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Image: Deontay Wilder wants Klitschko in 2016By 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.

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Deontay Wilder crushes Johann Duhaupas

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Heavyweight world champion Deontay “The Bronze Bomber” Wilder (35-0, 34 KOs)scored another impressive victory ofhis exciting and undefeated career tonight with a hard-fought 11th round TKO over Johann “Reptile” Duhaupas (32-3, 20 KOs) in primetime on Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) on NBC. Wilder’s win, which came at 55 seconds in the round, was registered in front of 8,471 raucous Alabama fans at Legacy Arena in Birmingham, Alabama.

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Wilder beats Duhaupas, wants Klitschko

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Image: Wilder beats Duhaupas, wants Klitschko(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.

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Deontay Wilder stops Johann Duhaupas

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Image: Deontay Wilder stops Johann Duhaupas(Photo credit: Lucas Noonan/Premier Boxing Champions) By Jim Dower: In perhaps the hardest fight of WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder’s career, he had to battle hard to defeat Johann Duhaupas (32-3, 20 KOs) by a grueling 11th round stoppage victory tonight at the Legacy Arena in Birmingham, Alabama. The 6’7″ Wilder unloaded everything but the kitchen sink in the 11th round to get the stoppage against bleeding but still game Duhaupas.

The fight was stopped after Wilder unloaded with a blizzard of left hooks and uppercuts to the head of Duhaupas. Referee Jack Reiss stepped in before Wilder could add the coupe de grace against the French fighter.

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Deontay Wilder smashes Johann Duhaupas – results

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wilder444(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.

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Weights: Wilder 228.6, Duhaupas 236

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1-EW5G4097By Tim Fletcher: WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (34-0, 33 KOs) weighed in today for his fight on Saturday night against France’s Johann Duhaupas (32-2, 20 KOs) for their fight at the Legacy Arena, in Birmingham, Alabama.

Wilder weighed in at the second highest weight of his career at 228.6 pounds. In his last fight, Wilder weighed 229lbs and looked slower than he’d been in his previous fights when he consistently weighed in at 219-220.

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Wilder-Duhaupas – 6,500 tickets sold

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1-DSC_0768By Dan Ambrose: Ticket sales have been slow for Saturday’s fight between WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (34-0, 33 KOs) and #11 WBC Johann Duhaupas (32-2, 20 KOs) for their fight on Premier Boxing Champions on NBC from the Legacy Arena in Birmingham, Alabama.

According to Fight News, 6,500 tickets have been sold for the 12,300 arena, with many of the tickets being sold in the last two days. There’s still two days before the fight, so there’s an outside chance that the remainder of the 5,800 tickets could be sold before the start of the fight card at 9:00 p.m. ET/6:00 p.m. PT on Saturday night.

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