Deontay Wilder and boxing

I don't know boxing - is Deontay black?

Irish . . . I think

I got tickets too, I was a little surprised at how fast they were going. Eric Molina is who he is fighting and is ranked 14th, this is a mandatory title defense. The guy has been knocked out a couple times in the past, but this is the heavyweight division so anything could happen (Rahman vs Lewis fight). I expecting Wilder to knock him out by the 4th. The good thing is that there are 8 undercard fights, and one is a light heavyweight fight, have not found what the other 7 are yet.

Found 2 of the 8 undercard fights

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The co-feature, which is for the belt that was vacated by Rances Barthelemy, sees Jose "Sniper" Pedraza (19-0, 12 KO) of Puerto Rico look to sort of snap a recent run of bad luck or bad hype with Puerto Rican prospects against Andrey Klimov (19-1, 9 KO).

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The opening bout will be Jose Pedraza's opportunity to establish himself as Puerto Rico's next champion and a rising star," said Lou DiBella, who is serving as the promoter of the show.

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The undercard will include Jose Pedraza (19-0) of Puerto Rico against Russian Andrey Klimov (19-1) for the vacant IBF Junior Lightweight championship.

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That should be a decent fight.

Molina was KO'd by Chris Arreola (IIRC) but he's coming in hot. It's not a bad matchup on paper. Wilder's style doesn't lend itself to great excitement, but Molina should be headhunting. He's been talking mad shite already.

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I don't know what you mean by this. Wilder KOs folks.

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He KOs cab drivers who don't know they're fighting him until 1-2 weeks before fight night. He also fights people like Jason Gavern who was a former Wilder sparring partner and took the fight on like 5 days notice and made Wilder look like dog sh!t before he had to quit due to exhaustion.

I'm actually shocked Wilder's opponent has been announced 1 month in advance. That's a milestone for Mr. Deontay.

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He throws bombs.

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He threw jabs instead of bombs against his first real opponent, Bermane Stiverne and he couldn't even stop him even though Stiverne had severe dehydration and had to be hospitalized several days after the fight. Wilder talks a big game but everyone knows he has a glass jaw and is VERY protected by Al Haymon.

To me. this encapsulates a major problem with boxing. If there are only two legitimate heavyweight champions (Wilder and Klitschko), why aren't they fighting ASAP?

I love reading your posts on boxing Marciano but it's a little disingenuous about Wilder. I'm no Haymon fan either, but that's what promoters and managers do.

There have been many boxers that had the early part of their career shaped by protective promoters.

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I'm no Haymon fan either, but that's what promoters and managers do.

There have been many boxers that had the early part of their career shaped by protective promoters.

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I agree but it's pretty sad the way he's handled Wilder's career. Same goes for Gary Russell Jr. I was a big fan of both coming out of the Beijing Olympics but Haymon has completely killed that excitement.

You just can't develop a fighter by continuously putting him in the ring with guys who have no chance. Look at Anthony Joshua in the UK...that's the proper way to develop a fighter. Haymon is a genius when it comes to business but he sucks when it comes to boxing (match-making, fighter development, etc).