By Radio Rahim
WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder is picking Tyson Fury to pull off a repeat of last Saturday's shocking upset in Dusseldorf, Germany.
Fury sent shockwaves throughout the boxing industry when he boxed his way to a twelve round unanimous decision victory over Wladimir Klitschko to capture the WBO/WBA/IBO/IBF heavyweight titles.
Klitschko, who turns 40-years-old in March, was undefeated for over a decade and ruled the division with an iron fist. Wilder believes he simply got old.
The former champion has already exercised an immediate rematch clause. Wilder expects the same outcome, with Fury having his hand raised in victory.
"I think Fury wins again. I just really feel that father time is knocking at the door for Klitschko. You can only fight for so long and only abuse your body in camp and in fights for so long - until it’s time to give it up," Wilder told BoxingScene.com.
Wilder is making a defense of his title on January 16th at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Regardless of who wins the Fury-Klitschko rematch, Wilder would like to face the victor next.
"My main goal is to unify the division. There hasn’t been a fighter who unified the division since 1999 and that was Lennox Lewis. It’s been well over a decade now so I want to put my name on there," Wilder said.
“Now if they have a rematch and whoever wins I want the winner of that, whoever them belts fall in [the] hands [of] is who I want.”
