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Scottish Sun
24-05-2025
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- Scottish Sun
‘I'd be concerned about him fighting' – Boxing legends including Tyson Fury urge Deontay Wilder to QUIT before comeback
DEONTAY WILDER has been urged to hang up his gloves just a month before his ring return. The former long-reigning WBC heavyweight champion will bid to get back to winning ways on June 27 in a rebuild fight against Tyrrell Herndon. 4 Deontay Wilder has looked like a shell of his old self in his last few fights Credit: GETTY 4 The American has suffered three brutal knockout losses in his last five losses Credit: GETTY 4 Former foe Tyson Fury has urged 'The Bronze Bomber' to hang them up Credit: AP Wilder, 39, will enter the bout on the back of four defeats in his last five outings, with three of those losses being brutal knockouts to Tyson Fury and Zhilei Zhang. The American has looked like a shell of the fighter who struck fear into the hearts of heavyweights during his pomp, so much so that a litany of boxing icons, Fury, included, have urged him to call it a day. During an appearance on the Pound 4 Pound podcast with former UFC champs Kamaru Usman and Henry Cejudo, he said: "I'd like to see poor old Deontay retire from boxing. 'When I beat Wilder, he was 44 and 0, with 43 KOs, and he KO'd the guy who went the distance with him in the rematch, so that means he knocked out every single person he ever faced. 44 people. READ MORE TYSON FURY 'FOR WHAT?' Tyson Fury insists he's STAYING retired in huge blow to Anthony Joshua 'Obviously, he lost the three fights to me and since that third trilogy, we took a lot of lot of years off each other's lives. "That war, which ended in the 11th round by knockout, that took a lot out of our tanks. "Between me and Wilder in that trilogy there was 10 knockdowns. It takes a lot out of a fighter. 'Even when he's come back and had a couple of fights since, he's only a shadow of his former glory. JOIN SUN VEGAS: GET £50 BONUS 4 Deontay Wilder has vowed to return to the summit of the heavyweight division Credit: Getty "The only thing left that remains the same about Deontay is his name.' Legendary boxing coach Teddy Atlas, who used to train Mike Tyson, shares the same view as Fury. Deontay Wilder's three-fight 'plan' revealed including overdue Anthony Joshua fight Atlas told Slingo: 'The last thing to go, George Foreman showed, is that the last thing to go with a fighter is power. "As long as you have power, you've got a shot. "But the way he's looked, the punishment he took against Zhilei Zhang. "Wilder took a lot of punishment in his last few fights. "And the way he took it, how clean he got hit, and how he reacted to it, just as a human being. "Forget trainer, promoter, anything, just as a human being, I'd be concerned about him fighting again.' Wilder and his team are hoping a win over Herndon will kick-start an unlikely run to a world title, with head coach Malik Scott saying: "He's still got that urge to become champion, because he's a champion at heart. "He's on the second half of his career, he's filthy rich. "He wants to make another run at the heavyweight championship of the world."
The Sun
24-05-2025
- Sport
- The Sun
‘I'd be concerned about him fighting' – Boxing legends including Tyson Fury urge Deontay Wilder to QUIT before comeback
DEONTAY WILDER has been urged to hang up his gloves just a month before his ring return. The former long-reigning WBC heavyweight champion will bid to get back to winning ways on June 27 in a rebuild fight against Tyrrell Herndon. 4 4 4 Wilder, 39, will enter the bout on the back of four defeats in his last five outings, with three of those losses being brutal knockouts to Tyson Fury and Zhilei Zhang. The American has looked like a shell of the fighter who struck fear into the hearts of heavyweights during his pomp, so much so that a litany of boxing icons, Fury, included, have urged him to call it a day. During an appearance on the Pound 4 Pound podcast with former UFC champs Kamaru Usman and Henry Cejudo, he said: "I'd like to see poor old Deontay retire from boxing. 'When I beat Wilder, he was 44 and 0, with 43 KOs, and he KO'd the guy who went the distance with him in the rematch, so that means he knocked out every single person he ever faced. 44 people. 'Obviously, he lost the three fights to me and since that third trilogy, we took a lot of lot of years off each other's lives. "That war, which ended in the 11th round by knockout, that took a lot out of our tanks. "Between me and Wilder in that trilogy there was 10 knockdowns. It takes a lot out of a fighter. 'Even when he's come back and had a couple of fights since, he's only a shadow of his former glory. JOIN SUN VEGAS: GET £50 BONUS 4 "The only thing left that remains the same about Deontay is his name.' Legendary boxing coach Teddy Atlas, who used to train Mike Tyson, shares the same view as Fury. Deontay Wilder's three-fight 'plan' revealed including overdue Anthony Joshua fight Atlas told Slingo: 'The last thing to go, George Foreman showed, is that the last thing to go with a fighter is power. "As long as you have power, you've got a shot. "But the way he's looked, the punishment he took against Zhilei Zhang. "Wilder took a lot of punishment in his last few fights. "And the way he took it, how clean he got hit, and how he reacted to it, just as a human being. "Forget trainer, promoter, anything, just as a human being, I'd be concerned about him fighting again.' Wilder and his team are hoping a win over Herndon will kick-start an unlikely run to a world title, with head coach Malik Scott saying: "He's still got that urge to become champion, because he's a champion at heart. "He's on the second half of his career, he's filthy rich. "He wants to make another run at the heavyweight championship of the world."
The Irish Sun
24-05-2025
- Sport
- The Irish Sun
‘I'd be concerned about him fighting' – Boxing legends including Tyson Fury urge Deontay Wilder to QUIT before comeback
DEONTAY WILDER has been urged to hang up his gloves just a month before his ring return. The former long-reigning WBC heavyweight champion will bid to get back to winning ways on Advertisement 4 Deontay Wilder has looked like a shell of his old self in his last few fights Credit: GETTY 4 The American has suffered three brutal knockout losses in his last five losses Credit: GETTY 4 Former foe Tyson Fury has urged 'The Bronze Bomber' to hang them up Credit: AP The American has looked like a shell of the fighter who struck fear into the hearts of heavyweights during his pomp, so much so that a litany of boxing icons, Fury, included, have urged him to call it a day. During an appearance on the 'When I beat Wilder, he was 44 and 0, with 43 KOs, and he KO'd the guy who went the distance with him in the rematch, so that means he knocked out every single person he ever faced. 44 people. Advertisement READ MORE TYSON FURY 'Obviously, he lost the three fights to me and since that third trilogy, we took a lot of lot of years off each other's lives. "That war, which ended in the 11th round by knockout, that took a lot out of our tanks. "Between me and Wilder in that trilogy there was 10 knockdowns. It takes a lot out of a fighter. 'Even when he's come back and had a couple of fights since, he's only a shadow of his former glory. Advertisement Most read in Boxing JOIN SUN VEGAS: GET £50 BONUS 4 Deontay Wilder has vowed to return to the summit of the heavyweight division Credit: Getty "The only thing left that remains the same about Deontay is his name.' Legendary boxing coach Teddy Atlas, who used to train Advertisement Deontay Wilder's three-fight 'plan' revealed including overdue Anthony Joshua fight Atlas told power . "As long as you have power , you've got a shot. "But the way he's looked, the punishment he took against Zhilei Zhang. "Wilder took a lot of punishment in his last few fights. Advertisement "And the way he took it, how clean he got hit, and how he reacted to it, just as a human being. "Forget trainer, promoter, anything, just as a human being, I'd be concerned about him fighting again.' Wilder and his team are hoping a win over Herndon will kick-start an unlikely run to a world title, with head coach Malik Scott saying: "He's still got that urge to become champion, because he's a champion at heart. "He's on the second half of his career, he's filthy rich. Advertisement "He wants to make another run at the heavyweight championship of the world."
Yahoo
03-04-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Former heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder has his confidence back ... with 'hate in my heart'
Deontay Wilder is planning for 2025 to be the first calendar year since 2019 when he will fight on more than one occasion. It was announced March 28 that Wilder would return to the ring June 27 in a 10-round bout against Tyrrell Herndon at the Charles Koch Arena in Wichita, Kansas. Now Wilder has revealed to Uncrowned and DAZN's "Ariel x Ade" show that he has a second bout lined up as well. Advertisement "We've got two [fights] scheduled right now, for sure," Wilder revealed Tuesday. "We're looking to do another [fight] in December. I think this year is going to be filled with just making sure I'm back tuned up. I'm tuning myself up, making sure I'm where I say I am." Wilder has boxed outside of North America just three times. In 2013, he ventured to Sheffield, England, to knock out the 2000 Olympic gold medalist Audley Harrison in the opening round. His last two fights ended in defeat in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, against Joseph Parker and Zhilei Zhang. The former WBC heavyweight champion hopes to change that international losing streak in December in a unique location for a boxing event. "We're going to be out of the country," Wilder said about his December fight. "Somewhere in Korea, South Korea." Advertisement Tyson Fury's retirement from the sport following back-to-back defeats to Oleksandr Usyk has left a void in the heavyweight division. A fight between Fury and Anthony Joshua had been building up for almost a decade, but now it appears that we may never see that fight. Deontay Wilder is looking to be active in 2025. () (Richard Pelham via Getty Images) Another clash boxing fans had hoped to see for many years was Wilder vs. Joshua, and with Fury supposedly bowing out of the sport, the matchup makes even more sense now. But Wilder has insisted that his comeback is not centered around any specific opponent. "I'm like any other boxing fan, I just want the best fights possible," Wilder insisted. Advertisement "I'm not looking for any particular [fight], but I want the best of the best. Whoever's the best in the division, that's who I want. "The mission is still — I've still got to unify the division. That's one of the main things that I came in [with] and a goal that I set forth. I never had a true opportunity to get that accomplished due to other circumstances of different obligations of other people, but I never had that opportunity. And we're still here, I'm still young, I'm healthy." Wilder will hope to shake off the cobwebs against Herndon, who will be the least accomplished foe he has faced in more than a decade. "We had options of coming back and fighting in big opportunities," Wilder explained. "But we didn't want to take that route, we wanted to make sure that I say I'm good and everything is good, no doubts. Because many times I have said that I was good, but maybe [I] had a little doubt." Advertisement Although Wilder will end a year-long layoff when he faces Herndon, the "Bronze Bomber" insists he never contemplated retirement after his recent stumbles, and his lengthy period of inactivity was due to factors out of his control. "We've been doing many different things [since the Zhang fight]," Wilder revealed. "But just staying in shape most of all because we knew we were going to return. We just didn't have a certain type of date to return because of all the injuries that I had and the outside — all the different things outside that was going on. We wanted to make sure that I was just fully healthy — physically, mentally, and emotionally. I had to take a wellness check. I had to sit back and get a lot of things together in my life. "Especially with the shoulder injuries. Anyone that knows about shoulder injuries knows that's one of the longest injuries that you can go through. I [ended] up injuring my shoulder at one point in time, and it healed, and then I ended up having an accident and falling on it on the same shoulder, and then I had to start the process all over again. "All I had was pain [for] 24 hours. Every time I threw my right hand, it would be nothing but pain. I had to really deal with it. I have a high tolerance [for] pain. So I had to deal with a lot of different things. But [to] make a long story short, I'm fully healed with everything. I don't have [any more] pain at this point in time. And all my burdens have been cut loose from me, I'm free." Advertisement Wilder had an epiphany after his brutal loss to Zhang in June 2024, when he realized how his lingering issue was preventing him from performing at his best. Now he hopes to showcase a better version of himself. "There were never [any] retirement questions in my mind whatsoever because I couldn't understand what was going on with me at that moment in time," Wilder said. "I couldn't pinpoint why certain things were happening or why certain events were occurring. After the Zhang fight, I finally caught it. I finally realized what was going on with me, and I immediately took action at that." In the build-up to his November 2019 rematch with Luis Ortiz, Wilder famously told Ortiz, "I only have to be perfect for two seconds [to win the fight]," in what turned out to be a prophecy. Wilder lost six straight rounds to Ortiz before knocking him out with a single right hand in the seventh. Wilder had supreme confidence in his ability to finish a fight in an instant at the time, but the former heavyweight champion claimed to have lost his self-belief after feeling a sense of betrayal from people close to him. Advertisement "I never [thought that I would have] a point of time in my life where I [would lose] my confidence in myself," an emotional Wilder said. "Things got so crazy in my life, you know, that it altered my mindset and I lost confidence in myself. I never thought I would be a man to be able to do that, but certain things in your life and you have certain people around that you never think would break your heart and when they do, it changes you. "I never had hate in my heart, but now I do."
BBC News
28-03-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Heavyweight Wilder to return against Herndon in June
Former heavyweight world champion Deontay Wilder will return to the ring against the relatively unknown Tyrrell Herndon on 27 June in Wichita, Kansas. Wilder was once the most feared puncher in world boxing and held the WBC title from 2015 to 2020. The 39-year-old American - who was defeated by Tyson Fury in an electric trilogy bout - has won 43 fights with 42 knockouts, four losses and one draw. He was stopped by Zhilei Zhang in June, six months after losing on points to Joseph defeats derailed Wilder's ambitions to reclaim a world title and scuppered plans for the long-awaited fight against Briton Anthony team confirmed to BBC Sport that the Bronze Bomber will face 37-year-old American Herndon, who has won 24 fights and lost five. The fight will be promoted by Global Combat Collective and contested over 10 rounds.
