Comments Thread For: Deontay Wilder Title Defense Set For July 16 in Birmingham

[bobmanll]

Hell naw... There's a market, so to speak, for a fighter of his caliber. Dude gonna make bank for being a fighter bad enough to get whooped by damn near everyone, but just tough enough to hang with the competition and avoid brain injuries.

Arreola only lost 3 of his last 15 fights since klitschko fight, did you also forget him being undefeated prior to fighting klitschko?

[mlac]

arreola KO'ing bum squad would be the best thing to happen in boxing for a long long time.
i would die laughing.

[BIGPOPPAPUMP]

Comments Thread For: Deontay Wilder Title Defense Set For July 16 in Birmingham

Having missed out on a chance to make history on the road, Deontay Wilder gets to head home for his next fight. The unbeaten heavyweight titlist is set to return to the ring on July 16 in Birmingham, Alabama, multiple sources have informed BoxingScene.com. The opponent will be formally announced at a press conference due to be held on June 15 at Legacy Arena in Birmingham, where the upcoming fight will air live in a primetime edition of Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) on free-to-air Fox TV.
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[johnm is...]

arreola KO'ing bum squad would be the best thing to happen in boxing for a long long time.
i would die laughing.

Stranger things have happened. He does have some pop.

[Rip Chudd]

Pathetic, he's fighting Arreola. Smh

[El-blanco]

Cris has skills but I think he's way too past it to make it truly competitive. He came up short in his prime, no way he does it now. Will be entertaining though. Jacobs Mora is a disgrace.

[eco1]

*Waits for someone to say "If Cris is in shape, he can do it!"*

so he can't, hehhehehehhehe

[mlac]

Stranger things have happened. He does have some pop.

Didn't he get dropped and battered by kauffman in his last fight?

his chin / being tough was about the only thing keeping him quasi-relevant...

[SUBZER0ED]

on wilder's fight:

meh. dude's opponent got popped on a PED test. it is what it is.



on jacobs' fight:

i had given danny a pass for a long time becuase of his fight with cancer, but he's back now. he needs to be matched tougher than this if they expect me to take him seriously as a contender.

a rematch of a fight you won in two rounds... against sergio freaking mora!??! yes, the fight was fun, but that's only because jacobs caught a big punch and went down. it had more to do with danny being reckless than with mora being a potent fighter.

Fat Chris does have an amateur background that might help him, & he has more experience with bigger names. If he takes this fight seriously & shows up in shape, he might shock us.

What the hell happened to Quillen? He gets caught early & loses by KO, and then drops off the face of the earth!? One would think that he'd be screaming for a rematch. I much rather see that than a rematch with Mora & Jacobs.

[BoxingJunkie]

Pathetic, he's fighting Arreola. Smh

Actually it's anything but "pathetic". Chris is not one of the top heavies in the division but he still has a marketable and recognizable name and keep in mind the big fish in the heavyweight division are all tied up with fights themselves so this makes perfect sense as a keep busy fight until the other heavies are available for a title unification bout.