Deontay Wilder: record, next fight and profile →
Badou Jack became a two-division champion when he stopped Nathan Cleverly last August on the the Floyd Mayweather-Conor McGregor pay-per-view undercard. The promotion became the second highest grossing event of all time just behind the highly anticipated Mayweather versus Manny Pacquiao showdown.
In anticipation of the December 1 heavyweight world title showdown between WBC champion Deontay “The Bronze Bomber” Wilder and lineal champion Tyson “Gypsy King” Fury, the fighters will embark on a three-city international press tour beginning Monday, October 1 in London where the two larger-than-life personalities will face off and sound off.
The heavyweight fight to make is the one between unified champion Anthony Joshua and WBC belt-holder Deontay Wilder. But Shelly Finkel, who advises Wilder, believes the chance of this match-up happening next are slim and none.
Shelly Finkel, co-manager of WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder, has no desire to meet with Matchroom Sport's Barry Hearn to discuss a new deal for an April 2019 unification with IBF, WBA, IBO and WBO heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua.
Eddie Hearn wants to have a deal in place with Deontay Wilder’s handlers for an Anthony Joshua-Wilder fight before Wilder faces Tyson Fury on December 1. Hearn’s rationale is that he doesn’t want to wait until December 2 to begin negotiating again with Wilder’s adviser, Al Haymon, and co-manager, Shelly Finkel, because based on their previous negotiations Hearn knows it’ll be a complicated process to finalize a deal for England’s Joshua and Alabama’s Wilder to meet in a heavyweight title unification fight April 13 at Wembley Stadium in London. That deal would be contingent, Hearn said, on Wilder winning his fight against Fury at Staples Center in Los Angeles.
According to Eddie Hearn, the promoter for IBO, IBF, WBA, WBO heavyweight world champion Anthony Joshua (22-0, 21 KOs), their full focus is to secure a unification with WBC king Deontay Wilder (40-0, 39 KOs) for Wembley Stadium on April 13.
Barry Hearn has warned rival boxing promoter Frank Warren that Anthony Joshua will not accept a 50-50 purse split for a prospective all-British super-fight against Tyson Fury in April next year. Hearn, head of Joshua's promoters Matchroom, responded furiously to an assertion from Warren on BBC 5 Live's Sportsweek programme that the pair would share the proceeds of the big-money bout.
By Corey Erdman - There is no shortage of great storylines or intriguing upcoming fights in the world of boxing today—but at long last, it is how it how one might say it is supposed to be, with the heavyweight division being by far the most interesting. The feud between Anthony Joshua, Deontay Wilder and Tyson...
A Deontay Wilder win over Tyson Fury obviously would be better for continuing to build Wilder-Anthony Joshua into what promoter Eddie Hearn said Saturday night would “definitely be the biggest fight in British boxing history.”
Anthony Joshua stopped at Deontay Wilder when he was asked Saturday night to list the opponents he wants to fight next. The unbeaten British superstar also made it clear he is tired of discussing a heavyweight showdown with Wilder. Now he just wants that much-anticipated fight to happen.