Deontay Wilder: record, next fight and profile →
Eddie Hearn, promoter for heavyweight contender Dillian Whyte, would not rule out the possibility of a fight with former WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder in 2021. In a recent interview, Whyte was among the possibilities that Wilder named for next year.
Former undisputed heavyweight champion Mike Tyson is very open to the possibility of having exhibition fights with some of the top heavyweights of today - like Tyson Fury, Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder. Tyson believes the matches could raise an enormous amount of money for charity.
Deontay Wilder may not have given his head trainer and co-manager Jay Deas the boot, the way he did – unceremoniously – with co-trainer Mark Breland, but he wants to make it clear that Deas did not escape his wrath.
Heavyweight contender Dillian Whyte was a bit surprised when former champion Deontay Wilder named him as a potential future opponent. For at least two years, Whyte was chasing after Wilder for a WBC title shot. But the 'Bronze Bomber' had little to no interest in facing Whyte in the ring.
Deontay Wilder may be the ideal representative for the forthcoming “bridgerweight” weight class, but the former heavyweight titleholder swears he will have no truck with it. The division, the brainchild of the WBC and its president Mauricio Sulaiman, was born out of a desire to give the sport’s less lefty heavyweights, as well as cruiserweights, a better chance to win a heavyweight title in a division in which most of its top participants currently walk around north of 250 pounds
Deontay Wilder apparently has no plans of coming up for air from his deep, deep rabbit hole of excuses. In the latest leg of an unexpected PR blitz, Wilder doubled down on all the reasons – each one more fanciful than the next – on why he lost to Tyson fury in their ballyhooed rematch Last February, including the much-lampooned theory that Fury wore doctored gloves in that fight. The proof? According to Wilder, he has fingernail marks inside his ear.
Frank Warren, co-promoter for WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, is not ruling out the possibility of a trilogy fight with Deontay Wilder in 2021. Fury saw action back in February, when he stopped Wilder in seven rounds to capture the WBC world title. They fought to a controversial twelve round split draw in December 2018.
Eddie Hearn, promoter for IBF, WBA, WBO, IBO heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua, does not expect a quick resolution to the ongoing legal drama between Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder. Hearn is hoping to make a big unification between Joshua and Fury, who holds the WBC title, in 2021.
A date never truly belonging to Tyson Fury to begin with, is now off the table. Rumors of a December 5 ring return for the lineal heavyweight champion were ultimately dismissed by the man himself, whom now seems poised to focus on an epic run in the New Year.
A few days ago, World Boxing Council President Mauricio Sulaiman created a mountain of negative press when he announced his organization's decision to establish a new weight class called "bridgerweight" - which runs from 200 to 224-pounds.