Deontay Wilder: After Povetkin, I'd Love To Fight Tyson Fury Next

By Edward Chaykovsky

WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (36-0, 35KOs) would love to have a unification in his next fight with IBO/WBA/WBO champion Tyson Fury.

Wilder has a title defense set for May 21 in Russia with mandatory challenger Alexander Povetkin (30-1-KO22). Fury has a contracted rematch with Wladimir Klitschko in either June or July.

Wilder and Fury came face to face in January at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. They traded words in the ring before being separated by security and others.

Wilder had just finished knocking out Artur Szpilka in nine rounds. Fury entered the ring and started calling Wilder out before the live televised audience on Showtime.

The fight with Povetkin will be the toughest fight of Wilder's career, and on foreign soil, but he's confident of victory. He's not going to stop at Fury. Wilder also wants the winner of next month's fight between IBF champion Charles Martin and unbeaten Anthony Joshua, and even David Haye is a potential future target.

"At the end of the day I am going for all the belts so I am going to have to go through all of them. And I would love to fight the UK guys - even in the UK," Wilder said to Sky Sports. "If I have to go through Fury after my Povetkin fight - and I never look past my next fight, I am not that foolish - to get those belts, I would love to fight him next.

"If he wins the [WladimirKlitschko] rematch, I will get his remaining belts then after that whoever wins out of Charles or Joshua, I'd love to go and fight the winner of that to get that belt too. And maybe at the end of that, my first titles defence, maybe it'll be against David to see if he can still do what he used to do. I'll put them up for him."

"I am looking to make [the heavyweight division] even bigger and better than it is. That's my goal, especially when I become the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world. One belt, one face, one name... and that's Deontay Wilder."