Deontay Wilder boxing news
Trainer Malik Scott says Deontay Wilder’s career will be on the line for his next fight in 2025. The former WBC heavyweight champion (43-4-1, 42 KOs) has lost his last two fights and has only won once in five years.
We may not have seen the last of Deontay Wilder in the ring. After suffering back-to-back defeats, these to Joseph Parker and then Zhilei Zhang, Wilder has heard the calls, the pleas, for him to call it a career and retire.
Though he has yet to confirm, officially at least, whether he will actually fight again, former WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder’s name has remained in the headlines since his last fight, this a June stoppage defeat at the hands of Zhilei Zhang.
Derek Chisora says Deontay Wilder has been transformed into a “sissy” by trainer Malik Scott in the three years they’ve worked together.
Might we have now seen the last of two former heavyweight champions, both big punchers and both big, big attractions over the last decade or so, this being Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder?
We may not have seen the last of Francis Ngannou in a boxing ring. The MMA warrior who made the transition from the cage to the ring, having mixed results – a close, it’s debatable Ngannou won it split decision loss to Tyson Fury, followed by a blast-out defeat at the hands of Anthony Joshua – still wants to fight Deontay Wilder in a boxing ring.
Former WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder sure looked all done in his last fight, or actually in his previous two fights, when he was widely outpointed by Joseph Parker and then crushed in the fifth round by Zhilei Zhang.
More bad news for former WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder. Just days after his perhaps career-ending KO loss to Zhilei Zhang, 38 year old Wilder’s relationship with his former fiance has certainly come to an end – an ugly end.
Will Deontay Wilder retire from boxing after his crushing, sad to see KO defeat at the hands of Zhilei Zhang? A better question, perhaps, is should Wilder retire?
Former WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder’s mother, Deborah Wilder, is calling for her son to retire from the sport after his fifth-round knockout defeat to Zhilei Zhang last Saturday night in the ‘5 vs.