Significantly Deontay Wilder Future Now In Serious Doubt As Major Update On Comeback Fight Revealed
Deontay Wilder‘s plan to return to the ring this April has been canned.
The knockout artist from Alabama is a former long-reigning WBC Heavyweight Champion, only meeting his match 44 fights into his professional campaign when Tyson Fury stopped him to snatch the belt. In their third and final fight the Brit would produce the same result
Deontay Wilder took time out before returning with a first round knockout against Robert Helenius. Further inactivity followed before he was comprehensively out pointed by Joseph Parker in Saudi Arabia and knocked out by Zhilei Zhang in the fight after. It left many in the sport expecting the 39-year-old to retire, particularly since he looked far from his old dangerous self in those latest outings.
Despite even admitting that defeat to Zhang could spell the end of his career, Wilder would go on to confirm that he would fight on and ‘the best is yet to come.’ His road back to the top was to begin in April on a BLK Prime promotion against journeyman Curtis Harper.
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Harper – best known for walking out of the ring on the first bell against top contender Efe Ajagba – had confirmed he signed for the fight, though the announcement press conference was cancelled due to the devastating wild fires in Los Angeles. World Boxing News now reports that the fight has been pulled entirely, with Wilder’s manager Shelly Finkel confirming the situation but ‘wouldn’t comment when asked if Wilder had decided to retire.’
Fans of ‘The Bronze Bomber’ will hope that this could mean he has landed a more significant fight with another promotion, however there is the real possibility that he returns to the drawing board, eight months out of action and counting
