WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (40-0, 39 KOs) has sent a chilling warning to all future opponents - that he's prepared to seriously hurt anyone and everyone that steps in the ring with him.
Speaking to The Breakfast Club on Power 105.1 FM, Wilder was explaining how, when he’s in the ring, he’s so focused on self-preservation and getting home to his family that he's not concerned if he took his opponent’s life.
“I come here for one thing — to knock you out and go back home," Wilder said to hosts Charlamagne Tha God & Angela Yee.
During the interview, Wilder explained that once he enters the ring he morphs into the 'Bronze Bomber' persona and aims to do maximum damage to his opponent.
“I want a body on my record, I want one,” Wilder said to
“That’s the Bronze Bomber, he want [a body]. I always tell people, when I’m in the ring, like I am the Bronze Bomber. With him, it’s so crazy, when I’m in the Bronze Bomber, I don’t really care. Everything about me changes. I don’t get nervous, I don’t get scared, I don’t get butterflies, I don’t have no feeling towards the man I’m fit to fight."
Wilder admits that he wouldn't be surprised if someone ends up getting killed during one of his fights.
“The power that I have, it’s easy to be able to do,” Wilder said. “I thought I had one one time with [Artur] Szpilka because he wasn’t breathing when he hit the canvas. Somebody is going to go.”
He thought, at least for a moment, that he may have killed Polish contender Artur Szpilka when they collided in early 2016 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Szpilka was caught cold by one of Wilder's huge bombs and it knocked him completely unconscious for a few moments when medics rushed the ring.
Wilder is aiming to face the winner of Saturday's IBF, IBO, WBA, WBO unification between Anthony Joshua and Joseph Parker.
