Wilder's next opponent?

Given the current WBC rankings, who can we expect will be announced as Deontay Wilder's next opponent? 1 .- Alexander Povetkin (Russia) SILVER 2 .- Anthony Joshua (GB) INTL/COMM 3 .- Vyacheslav Glazkov (Ukraine) 4 .- Bermane Stiverne (Haiti/Canada) 5 .- Kubrat Pulev (Bulgaria) 6 .- Lucas Browne (Australia) 7 .- Carlos Takam (Cameroon) 8 .- Artur Szpilka (Poland) 9 .- Erkan Teper (Germany) EBU 10 .- Mariusz Wach (Poland) 11 .- Joseph Parker (New Zealand) OPBF / EPBC 12 .- Andy Ruiz (Mexico) NABF 13 .- Chris Arreola (US) 14 .- Tomasz Adamek (Poland) 15 .- Kyotaro Fujimoto (Japan) I got money on him announcing Szpilka as his next opponent on Jan. 16.

Comments (10)

Sparked_26

Is this another voluntary? If so...Michael Sprott.

10y ago

Fury4daWIN

Takam fighting this month, so probably not. My guess is Spilzka since his fight got cancelled That'd be my guess as well. Highly ranked but very beatable. And Wilder can claim that because he's fighting an Eastern European guy he's preparing for Povetkin, honest.

10y ago

Hougigo

Is he fighting again? He actually just fought George Arias a few days in an eight round fight. In either case though, you're probably right, the turnaround is too quick for mid-January. NVM, that's who I thought he was fighting in Dec. Didn't watch the fight... so don't know if it was easy work or not....but most likely Spilkza since he's with PBC. Plus he has recognition on premium network and Showtime needs it

10y ago

Bram

Takam fighting this month, so probably not. My guess is Spilzka since his fight got cancelled Is he fighting again? He actually just fought George Arias a few days in an eight round fight. In either case though, you're probably right, the turnaround is too quick for mid-January.

10y ago

BigZ44

Didn't Adamek retire? Szpilka sounds about right. another lousy heavyweight with zero chance of an upset. "nobody can dispute I'm da best doe" Adamek came back and stopped the corpse of Przemyslaw Saleta, so apparently that makes him a contender again.

10y ago

Hougigo

Also, last I checked, Mansour isn't even rated in the WBC... but WBC does WBC things... so who knows

10y ago

LacedUp

Didn't Adamek retire? Szpilka sounds about right. another lousy heavyweight with zero chance of an upset. "nobody can dispute I'm da best doe"

10y ago

Hougigo

He probably won't get it, but I'd love to Takam get a title shot before his career is over. Maybe this will be his time, I didn't realize he was ranked that highly. Takam fighting this month, so probably not. My guess is Spilzka since his fight got cancelled

10y ago

285Kid

its will be #8 on you list

10y ago

Bram

He probably won't get it, but I'd love to Takam get a title shot before his career is over. Maybe this will be his time, I didn't realize he was ranked that highly.

10y ago