Deontay Wilder: record, next fight and profile →
By Tris Dixon - Dominic Breazeale, Andy Ruiz Jnr and Tom Schwarz are an unlikely heavyweight trio. They might be the answer in a boardgame years from now, with the question who in 2019 did the three leading heavyweights box when all the fans wanted was for them to face each other? We can only hope that this inte...
IBF, IBO, WBA, WBO heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua believes that his two division rivals, Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury, have their best chance to beat him right now - because he says it won't get any easier down the line. Joshua, 29-years-old, says his career will continue for quite some time - while he views Wilder and Fury as already reaching their primes.
Eddie Hearn, promoter for WBO, IBF, IBO, WBA heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua, says he is not surprised that WBC champion Deontay Wilder will not be ringside this coming Saturday night. Last week, Wilder's co-manager, Shelly Finkel, said his boxer will not be ringside for Joshua's fight with Andy Ruiz on June 1 at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
Eddie Hearn, promoter for IBF, WBA, IBO and WBO heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua, says there is no question that he wants to make a deal for a unification clash with WBC champion Deontay Wilder. Last Saturday night at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, Wilder scored a first round demolition of mandatory challenger Dominic Breazeale.
Shelly Finkel, the co-manager of WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder, is exploring three big options for the future. Last Saturday night at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, Wilder pulled off a crushing first round knockout of mandatory challenger Dominic Breazeale.
WBO, IBF, IB, WBA heavyweight Anthony Joshua is not even thinking about the possibility of a rematch with Dillian Whyte. Joshua is scheduled to make a voluntary defense against Andy Ruiz on June 1 at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
NEW YORK – The debate began raging far and wide Saturday night, as soon as referee Harvey Dock counted out Dominic Breazeale. Deontay Wilder’s supporters pointed to his quick, spectacular knockout of Breazeale as evidence of the WBC heavyweight champion’s superiority over Anthony Joshua. The British superstar’s backers argued that Wilder merely dismantled an opponent Joshua had already ruined when he stopped Breazeale in the seventh round of their June 2016 bout.
WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder has hit back at Tyson Fury for statements that he made earlier this week, where he called the unbeaten champion a "bum" and said he was willing to fight him on the street in a bare knuckle fight.
WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder created a viral sensation when he demolished mandatory challenger Dominc Breazeale with a single punch, in the first round, last Saturday night at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
Deontay Wilder thinks Anthony Joshua wants to fight him. Wilder doesn’t get the same feeling from Eddie Hearn, Joshua’s promoter. According to Wilder, until Hearn wants their showdown to take place as much as Joshua boxing fans will continue to wait for the sport’s two undefeated heavyweight champions to square off.