WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (34-0, 33KOs) and his manager, Jay Deas, are looking to get back in the ring as soon as possible.
Wilder was in action on September 26th, knocking out Johann Duhaupas in the eleventh round. It was the third fight of the year for Wilder, who decisioned Bermane Stiverne to capture the belt in January and then made a voluntary in June by knocking out Eric Molina.
After his most recent win, the World Boxing Council made it clear that another voluntary defense would not be sanctioned for Wilder. He would have to face mandatory challenger Alexander Povetkin (29-1, 21 KO) next.
Povetkin is fighting a tough bout with Mariusz Wach on November 4 and Wilder wants to fight again in December or January, which creates a scheduling dilemma.
Wilder and his manager are looking at the idea of having a third voluntary and then facing Povetkin when the Russian fighter is ready to go.
"From my personal opinion, if Povetkin is fighting in November and he has a tough fight in November, then he won't be able to fight in December and I don't see any reason why we should wait," Deas said to Alabama.com.
"Why should we wait on him? Deontay Wilder is the heavyweight champion of the world. If he's ready to fight in December, that's one thing. If he fights Wach and he's not ready in December or January, then we'll fight when he's ready."
"We are committed to being the most active heavyweight champion in history. We are not going to let anything stop us from being that. We want the biggest fights, but while those fights are being negotiated, we are not just going to stop fighting. We want to be active. We want to do something that the people want."
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Wilder was in action on September 26th, knocking out Johann Duhaupas in the eleventh round. It was the third fight of the year for Wilder, who decisioned Bermane Stiverne to capture the belt in January and then made a voluntary in June by knocking out Eric Molina.
After his most recent win, the World Boxing Council made it clear that another voluntary defense would not be sanctioned for Wilder. He would have to face mandatory challenger Alexander Povetkin (29-1, 21 KO) next.
Povetkin is fighting a tough bout with Mariusz Wach on November 4 and Wilder wants to fight again in December or January, which creates a scheduling dilemma.
Wilder and his manager are looking at the idea of having a third voluntary and then facing Povetkin when the Russian fighter is ready to go.
"From my personal opinion, if Povetkin is fighting in November and he has a tough fight in November, then he won't be able to fight in December and I don't see any reason why we should wait," Deas said to Alabama.com.
"Why should we wait on him? Deontay Wilder is the heavyweight champion of the world. If he's ready to fight in December, that's one thing. If he fights Wach and he's not ready in December or January, then we'll fight when he's ready."
"We are committed to being the most active heavyweight champion in history. We are not going to let anything stop us from being that. We want the biggest fights, but while those fights are being negotiated, we are not just going to stop fighting. We want to be active. We want to do something that the people want."
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@ Povetkin being important enough for somebody to wait around and sit on a title until he figures out whether or not he wants to accept his obligations as mandatory challenger...as opposed to him scheduling pointless fights a few weeks ahead of when he's supposed to be negotiating a fight with the "champ" 
