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By Cliff Rold - Showtime’s announcement this week that they would televise the Anthony Joshua-Joseph Parker heavyweight unification March 31st gave them a clear inside track on what might be the key to boxing’s near term future. Heavyweight is exciting right now. Heavyweight has a monster draw at the top. When...
WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (39-0, 38 KOs) believes IBF, IBO, WBA world champion Anthony Joshua (20-0, 20 KOs) is basically an unknown commodity in the United States. Both champions are in training for scheduled defenses coming up next month.
As pleased as Amir Khan might be to fight in England again, Khan knows boxing in the United States helped build his brand and make him a bigger star. As huge as Anthony Joshua has become in the United Kingdom, Khan thinks the undefeated heavyweight champion needs to fight in America, too. Khan suggested to Sky Sports for a story posted Monday to the network’s website that Joshua should fight in the United States later this year.
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - It's a pretty good time to be Stephen Espinoza. Though the chill from a Super Bowl week in Minneapolis may linger awhile, the Showtime executive surely has a lot to look forward to once he returns to work in midtown Manhattan. He was elevated to president of the network's entire sports ope...
Last year, former WBC cruiserweight world champion Tony Bellew (29-2-1, 19 KOs) was calling out big names left and right. One of those names was WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (39-0, 38 KOs). Bellew, who moved up to heavyweight division last March, was feeling very pumped after pulling off a huge upset with an eleventh round stoppage former heavyweight champion David Haye, who suffered a severe Achilles injury during the fight.
2016 Olympic silver medalist Joe Joyce (1-0) is putting the final touches on his training camp for his February 16th clash against an opponent to be announced soon. The fight will take place at York Hall in Bethnal Green.
Russia's Alexander Povetkin (33-1, 23 KOs) is really looking forward to his upcoming fight with British contender David Price. The fight was finalized last week for the undercard to the WBO, WBA, IBF, IBO heavyweight unification between Anthony Joshua and Joseph Parker, which takes place on March 31 at Principality Stadium in Cardiff, Wales.
Like everyone, Lou DiBella eventually wants to see a unification bout between Deontay Wilder and Anthony Joshua. Both heavyweight champions have tall tasks ahead of them before such an international mega attraction could occur. DiBella, has promoted every single WBC heavyweight title defense that Wilder (39-0, 38KOs) has had after winning the title in early 2015.
Jay Deas, co-manager and trainer for WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (39-0, 38 KOs), says their entire team wanted to face WBA, IBF, IBO champion Anthony Joshua (20-0, 20 KOs) next. They did have some minor talks, but ultimately Deas was told - by Joshua's promoter Eddie Hearn - that more time was needed to properly build that contest up.
NEW YORK – Deontay Wilder doesn’t consider Joseph Parker some sort of hopeless underdog against Anthony Joshua. Parker possesses the tools to win their heavyweight title unification fight, according to Wilder. The WBC heavyweight champ just thinks Parker will have to knock out Joshua to leave Wales with Joshua’s IBF, IBO and WBA titles.