By Victor Salazar

Brooklyn, New York - Deontay Wilder (35-0, 34 KO’s) has a date for January 16th at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. Though he has a date and venue, he does not have an opponent. Wilder says if he had it his way, his January opponent would have been his mandatory, Olympic gold medal winner Alexander Povetkin.

“Enough is enough and that’s why I’m calling out every heavyweight in the division,” Wilder told BoxingScene.com. “He (Povetkin) wanted a tune-up for me in [Mariusz] Wach but people don’t know that. Be about what you say. I’m ready for whoever. I’m done playing around. I don’t have to get ready because I’m always ready.”

Wilder feels Povetkin didn’t need a tune-up for him and in fact the wait to fight him might have actually hurt the challenger.

“My team does what I say and I wanted that fight in January but then Povetkin says he needs 6 months to prepare for me,” Wilder explained.  “It don’t take that long, two months is the max. It don’t take that long putting wear and tear on your body if you taking abuse in the ring, you really ain’t no good especially with a guy like me. My accuracy is up there with Floyd Mayweather. My last fight I threw more punches than Fury and Klitschko put together.”

Wilder wanted to set the record straight because the perception of many is that he does not want to fight Povetkin.

“That’s what happen when you get writers that write how they feel. Everyone in this room not for Deontay Wilder and that’s fine. People read that and they take it and run with it.”