(Photo credit: Naoki Fakuda) By Dan Ambrose: It took WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (36-0, 35 KOs) a little longer than fans expected it would take him to dispatch #8 WBC challenger Artur Szpilka (20-2, 15 KOs) last Saturday night in their fight on Showtime. Wilder says he had a difficult time adjusting to the 26-year-old Szpilka’s southpaw style and the crafty way he moved around the ring all night long.
Wilder was expecting Szpilka to be a little easier to get to in the fight, but the PPolish fighter chose to move around frequently to keep Wilder guessing. Even when Szpilka was standing in front of Wilder, he was moving his upper body to keep him from being able to land his big right hand like he wanted to.