so far there were a good amount of ppl on my fb feed that watched this card and liked the fights..so im taking it as a good sign casual attention will be coming back to heavyweight division..if we get some noteworthy tv friendly contenders built up
Wilder's 32 KO streak showed what happens when you put a top tier fighter against bums...that's all. Wilder was the real deal all along
so far there were a good amount of ppl on my fb feed that watched this card and liked the fights..so im taking it as a good sign casual attention will be coming back to heavyweight division..if we get some noteworthy tv friendly contenders built up
Heavyweight: Having won a vacant title, champion Bermane Stivern is obligated to make two successive mandatory defenses. The first will be Deontay Wilder on January 17 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. The winner of that fight is obligated to face the second mandatory Bryant Jennings. However, it is rumored that Jennings may face WBA/IBF/WBO champion Wladimir Klitschko in the Spring. If that transpires, Mike Perez and Alexander Povetkin will square off to determine the next mandatory to the Stivern-Wilder winner.
Spring, aye?The fight is supposed to be a tune-up for Perez, a Cuban defector living in Ireland, ahead of a possible spring world title elimination fight with former titlist Alexander Povetkin of Russia.
1 .- Deontay Wilder (US)
2 .- Alexander Povetkin (Russia) SILVER
3 .- Bryant Jennings (US)
4 .- Mike Perez (Cuba/Ireland) USNBC
5 .- Tyson Fury (GB) EBU/BBBC (Fighting Christian Hammer 2/28)
6 .- Vyacheslav Glazkov (Ukraine) (Fighting Steve Cunningham for a mandatory IBF title shot 3/14)
7 .- Lucas Browne (Australia) EPBC/COMM (Stated 1/14 that he's targeting the WBA interim or regular title)
8 .- Anthony Joshua (GB) INTL (Pulled out of 1/31 with a back injury, returning vs TBA 4/4)
9 .- Andy Ruiz (Mexico) NABF (Fighting TBA 3/7 on Shimming under-card)
10 .- Manuel Charr (Lebanon/Syria) BALTIC (Available--now trained by Freddie Roach)
11 .- Artur Szpilka (Poland) (Available--Al Haymon fighter)
12 .- Carlos Takam (Cameroon) (Coming off KO loss...)
13 .- Chris Arreola (US) (Coming off KO loss...)
14 .- Tony Thompson (US) (Coming off Decision loss...)
15 .- Odlanier Solis (Cuba) (Coming off Decision loss...)
16 .- Derek Chisora (GB)
17 .- Steve Cunningham (US)
18 .- Billy Wright (US) LATINO/FECARBOX
19 .- Kyotaro Fujimoto (Japan)
20 .- Mark De Mori (Australia)
21 .- Shannon Briggs (US)
22 .- Denis Boytsov (Russia)
23 .- David Price (GB)
24 .- Erkan Teper (Germany)
25 .- Charles Martin (US)
26 .- Eric Molina (US)
27 .- Alexander Ustinov (Russia)
28 .- Raphael Zumbano (Brazil) SOUTH AMERICA
29 .- Mariusz Wach (Poland)
30 .- Edmund Gerber (Germany) INTL SILVER
31 .- Arnold Gjergjaj (Switzerland)
32 .- Eddie Chambers (US)
33 .- Andrzej Wawrzyk (Poland)
34 .- Dominic Breazeale (US)
35 .- Agit Kabayel (Turkey) MEDITERRANEAN
36 .- Johann Duhaupas (France)
37 .- Marcin Rekowski (Poland)
38 .- Travis Kauffman (US)
39 .- Herve Hubeaux (Belgium) YOUTH
40 .- Zack Mwekassa (Congo) ABU
* NA = NOT AVAILABLE
Ruslan Chagaev (Uzbekistan/Germany) WBA Champion
Luis Ortiz (Cuba) WBA Interim Champion
Kubrat Pulev (Bulgaria) * NA - IBF
Fres Oquendo (P. Rico) * NA - WBA
Lateef Kayode (US) * NA - WBA
Missed the fight but I'm about to catch the replay.
Probably Tarver since he's an Al Haymon fighter it will be the easiest fight to make.
i would not put wilder in ring with tarver.
Art Barr
Holy shyt Tarver still fights?
someone mentioned tarver and I am not sure if he is competitive active consistently enough.
yet, he would fight up in a ship fight and you don't want any tarver fighting up.
against this newly crowned young champ.
Art Barr