Deontay Wilder: record, next fight and profile →
By Keith Idec - The last time an undefeated American heavyweight champion and an unbeaten Brit were on a collision course, the fighter from England got knocked out by an unheralded American who wasn’t supposed to win. This was pre-Internet, when Riddick Bowe and Lennox Lewis occupied the parts played today by D...
Frank Warren, promoter for Tyson Fury, does not believe the recent upset of Anthony Joshua has changed the landscape of the heavyweight division. Andy Ruiz sensationally won the IBF, WBO, IBO and WBA world titles at Madison Square Garden over the weekend, securing a seventh-round stoppage over Joshua in one of the greatest shocks in the history of heavyweight boxing.
Despite the allure being removed of two unbeaten heavyweights colliding for the undisputed heavyweight championship, Deontay Wilder doesn’t see any reason why a fight with Anthony Joshua still can’t happen. “We still gonna fight, why not,” Wilder (41-0-1, 40KOs) stated matter-of-factly during a recent installment of Sirius XM At The Fights.
Whereas most in the industry offered words of encouragement in longtime rival Anthony Joshua’s darkest professional hour, Deontay Wilder chose to pour gasoline on the flames. The unbeaten heavyweight titlist had plenty to say about Joshua’s shocking 7th round knockout loss to Andy Ruiz, immediately taking to social media shortly after witnessing one of the biggest upsets in heavyweight title fight history.
LAS VEGAS - Last December Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder battled to a controversial draw in Los Angeles in a Showtime pay-per-view event. Fury appeared to have won most of the rounds but Wilder made the fight closer by scoring two knockdowns. The final scores were 114-112 for Fury, 115-111 for Wilder and 113-113 to round out the split draw.
Deontay Wilder’s biggest payday disappeared when Andy Ruiz Jr. upset Anthony Joshua on Saturday night. That’s not even what bothered Wilder the most about Joshua’s stunning seventh-round, technical-knockout loss at Madison Square Garden. Wilder was most angry about his perception that Joshua “f***ing quit” after Ruiz knocked him down for the second time in the seventh round and the fourth time overall.
One day after cautioning his upcoming opponent to not plan too far ahead, Luis Ortiz has decided to double down on that promise in light of recent events. The heavyweight division—and the boxing world—was thrown for a loop following Andy Ruiz’s stunning 7th round knockout upset of previously unbeaten Anthony Joshua to collect three major titles Saturday evening at New York City’s famed Madison Square Garden.
Andy Ruiz defied the odds to sensationally upstage Anthony Joshua and dethrone the unified world heavyweight champion via a seventh-round TKO. Joshua was expected to make light work of Ruiz, who replaced Jarrell Miller for the Madison Square Garden showdown after he failed a drugs test, in his United States debut on Saturday.
NEW YORK – Luis Ortiz hopes Anthony Joshua hasn’t allowed Andy Ruiz Jr.’s flabby body to create a false sense of security. Ortiz is impressed with Ruiz’s boxing ability, enough to predict Ruiz will be plenty competitive Saturday night in their 12-round heavyweight title fight at Madison Square Garden. Ruiz, of course, became the beneficiary of Ortiz turning down promoter Eddie Hearn’s $7 million offer to replace Jarrell Miller as Joshua’s opponent once Miller failed three performance-enhancing drug tests.
Based on what he has heard from Deontay Wilder lately, Anthony Joshua doesn’t expect their much-discussed heavyweight title unification fight to finally happen in the near future. Joshua said during a conference call that he anticipates making a mandatory defense of one of his titles later this year, assuming he defeats Andy Ruiz on June 1 at Madison Square Garden. Wilder made a mandatory defense of his WBC title by knocking out Dominic Breazeale in the first round Saturday night at Barclays Center in Brooklyn.