Deontay Wilder: record, next fight and profile →
Deontay Wilder’s training camp for his fight against Tyson Fury has presented plenty of challenges for Wilder’s trainers. The 6-feet-9 Fury is different from any opponent the 6-feet-7 Wilder has fought during his 10-year pro career. Fury’s agility and overall conventional style, particularly for such a huge man, makes him difficult to catch clean.
At his nadir, Tyson Fury had lost his desire to live. So debilitating were his depression and anxiety that the 6-foot-9 lineal heavyweight king cared little if anything for himself or his wife and children. “The Gypsy King” did not even feel validation in November 2015 from his career-defining unanimous decision over long-reigning Wladimir Klitschko (64-5, 53 KOs), a feat that ended 6-foot-6 “Dr. Steelhammer’s” dominance at 22-0 (15 KOs) and 11 ½ years and made Fury the IBF/WBA/WBO/IBO champion.
Tyson Fury is certain he’ll have as many fans cheering for him at Staples Center as Deontay Wilder when they fight December 1 in Los Angeles. Fury figures a sizeable contingent of Brits will travel to the United States for their 12-round heavyweight title fight. The lineal heavyweight champ is just as sure that if they would’ve fought in his native Manchester, England, or somewhere else in the United Kingdom, tens of thousands more tickets would already be sold to the event.
Tyson Fury isn’t simply attempting to gain a psychological advantage over Deontay Wilder. Fury said during a conference call Wednesday that he added Freddie Roach to his team primarily because the Hall-of-Fame trainer has a wealth of experience that can be beneficial both before and during his fight with Wilder. England’s Fury moved his training camp three weeks ago from Abel Sanchez’s gym in Big Bear Lake, California, to Roach’s Wild Card Boxing Club in Hollywood, California.
Tyson Fury is going to have some added expert backing on December 1. Fury has hired Freddie Roach to be his cut man for the upcoming world title with WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder. The contest takes place on December 1 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. Showtime/BT Sport Pay-Per-View will carry the contest.
Frank Warren, promoter for Tyson Fury, is hinting that his man may very well go on the offensive very early in his upcoming showdown with WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder. Fury will challenge Wilder for his title on December 1 at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California.
If the Deontay Wilder-Tyson Fury fight produces impressive ticket and pay-per-view revenue, Eddie Hearn is willing to offer Wilder a larger purse split for a heavyweight title unification showdown against Anthony Joshua.
Top heavyweight contender Jarrell "Big Baby" Miller (22-0-1) returns to action on Saturday, November 17th in Kansas against fellow unbeaten Bogdan Dinu (18-0). The fight will top the latest DAZN streamed card. Other fights on the card include Gabe Rosado-Luis Arias, Brandon Rios-Ramon Alvarez and WBA/IBF middleweight champion Clarissa Shields against Hannah Rankin.
Deontay Wilder considers December 1 the night he’ll really resonate with American sports fans that aren’t as aware of the hard-hitting heavyweight champion as they should be. The undefeated knockout artist continues to predict he’ll stop unbeaten Brit Tyson Fury inside the distance when they fight for Wilder’s WBC heavyweight title at Staples Center in Los Angeles. That’s something Wladimir Klitschko couldn’t do in November 2015, when Fury upset the long-reigning champion to win the IBF, IBO, WBA and WBO heavyweight championships in Dusseldorf, Germany.
The biggest win of Tyson Fury's pro career was a twelve round unanimous decision over Wladimir Klitschko in November of 2015 to capture the WBA, IBF, IBO, WBO heavyweight titles. The victory was one of the biggest heavyweight upsets in the last decade. At the time Klitschko had been unbeaten for over 10 years and was heavily favored to win.