WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder is not concerned with the heavyweight rise of Oleksandr Usyk.
The Olympic gold medal winner dominated the entire cruiserweight division and unified all four of the major titles. He officially moves up to the heavyweight limit next weekend, when he faces unbeaten banger Tyrone Spong.
"Oleksandr Usyk is not a threat to me. He’s too small for me. He does a lot of movement and stuff like that, but that don’t faze me," Wilder told Sky Sports.
But one fighter that Wilder respects a lot is rising heavyweight Daniel Dubois.
Dubois has seen action four times in 2019, with all four ending inside of five rounds. Dubois was in action last weekend and demolished Ebenezer Tetteh in the first round.
"UK fighters definitely have some great guys on the horizon, I really like Daniel Dubois. I’m really liking that kid, he’s strong, he seems very focused, he seems very disciplined in what he’s doing, he seems like he’s on a mission," Wilder said.
"So I definitely wish him well in his pursuit of coming up. I think he’s going to be a good challenger. Whether it’s me, and I’m still here, or whether it’s somebody else, I think he’s going to be a good challenger. I think he’s definitely going to make it to fight for a world title one day. To be a champion? Who knows? But I think he’ll get to that point. I like a lot of the other guys as well, but for me he stands out the most."
Wilder is back in the ring on November 23rd, when he heads to the MGM Grand in Las Vegas to make a voluntary defense of his world title against Cuban puncher Luis Ortiz in a pay-per-view rematch.