Deontay Wilder: record, next fight and profile →
Top Rank's CEO Bob Arum, who promotes Tyson Fury, expects Dillian Whyte to get his mandatory crack at the WBC world title in the near future. Fury will challenge Deontay Wilder for the WBC world title on Saturday night at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
Joseph Parker has told Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury to fight Anthony Joshua next and crown an undisputed World Heavyweight champion, as Parker himself prepares to return to action against Shawndell Winters at Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas on Saturday February 29, live on DAZN in the US and on Sky Sports in the UK.
LAS VEGAS – Three American judges and an American referee will officiate the Deontay Wilder-Tyson Fury heavyweight championship rematch. The Nevada State Athletic Commission approved Connecticut’s Glenn Feldman, Nevada’s Dave Moretti and New Jersey’s Steve Weisfeld as the three judges for Wilder-Fury II on Wednesday morning at the NSAC’s monthly meeting in Las Vegas. The NSAC also assigned Nevada’s Kenny Bayless as the referee for the second scheduled 12-round bout between Wilder, of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and Fury, of Manchester, England.
Deontay Wilder has vowed to deliver "a devastating knockout" against Tyson Fury that would see him surpass the record he shares with his idol Muhammad Ali. Going into Saturday's bout with Fury in Las Vegas, Wilder has defended his WBC heavyweight title on 10 occasions since winning it against Bermane Stiverne more than five years ago.
LAS VEGAS – Deontay Wilder doesn’t put much stock in Tyson Fury’s lineal heavyweight championship claim. Wilder considers it a promotional ploy from a former champion who gave up his IBF, IBO, WBA and WBO titles without honoring the rematch clause in his contract to fight Wladimir Klitschko. England’s Fury argues that he is boxing’s true heavyweight champion because he defeated Klitschko by unanimous decision in November 2015 and still hasn’t been beaten.
LAS VEGAS – Lennox Lewis-Mike Tyson and Anthony Joshua-Wladimir Klitschko are commonly considered boxing’s two biggest heavyweight events of this century. Tyson Fury feels his rematch against Deontay Wilder on Saturday night is bigger than those fights. The ever-confident Fury went as far Tuesday as to call their second showdown for Wilder’s WBC title the biggest heavyweight fight since legendary rivals Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier squared off for the first time in what was billed as “The Fight of the Century” nearly 49 years ago.
Eddie Hearn has insisted that the winner of the rematch between Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder cannot avoid a unification fight with Anthony Joshua. Wilder defends his WBC world title against Fury for the second time at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Saturday, after the pair fought for a controversial draw in December 2018.
Hall of Famer and former world champion George Foreman is predicting another controversial outcome this coming Saturday night at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, when Tyson Fury challenges WBC world champion Deontay Wilder in a rematch.
Tyson Fury is promising a very brutal beating, following by a knockout, when he faces WBC heavyweight world champion Deontay Wilder on Saturday night at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Fury fought Wilder to a controversial twelve round split draw in December 2018. Fury went down twice in the contest.
By Thomas Gerbasi - Tyson Fury was a long way from Las Vegas, or even the arenas in the UK or Germany where he ultimately went from prospect to contender to champion to star. Gatineau, Quebec, Canada. A great town, but not the place you would expect a six-foot-nine heavyweight from Manchester, England to be preparing for what was at...