WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (39-0, 38 KOs) is planning to dish out a lot of punishment in his upcoming defense.
Wilder is back on Saturday night, at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, when he defends his title for the seventh time against undefeated challenger Luis Ortiz (28-0, 24 KOs) of Cuba. The fight will be televised by Showtime.
Ortiz, who crushed his last opponent in a stay busy fight, has been promising to crack the chin of Wilder.
He believes Wilder is very vulnerable and may crumble when checked on the chin.
Wilder has been down as a pro and he has been rattled by more than one opponent.
Ortiz has never been down or hurt as a pro and has fearsome power, but he's never faced a puncher like Wilder.
"Ortiz has never faced nobody with my caliber. Ortiz ain't never faced nobody with the intensity, with the mindset that I have or with the natural killer instinct that I have. All that sh*t goes out the window when you get in the ring with a real one. I don't care about all that. That ain't nothing," Wilder said.
"There is nothing that man's going to do to touch me where he's going to hurt me. I'm going to walk through all that. I'm telling you. That's nothing. I've seen his style many, many, many times. I've fought it coming-up in the amateurs. I've got a lot of Cuban friends. I know their style. Trust me. And I can't wait. That's why I do my talking. I talk my talk so I can walk my walk."
There has also been a lot of talk from Ortiz's team members, like his manager and trainer, who both predict a knockout victory in the first six rounds.
According to Wilder, all of the trash talk is motivating him to do more damage in the bout.
"Anybody else on the outside of the ring can't talk the talk because they're not going to be able to walk that green mile. His trainers, his promoters, his people around him are not going to be able to walk the green mile. Luis Ortiz is going to be the only person that's going to be able to have to suffer the consequences and the more they talk, the more punishment that comes on him. Everything intensifies my anticipation of knocking his head off," Wilder said.