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By Scoop Malinowski Anthony Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn offered Deontay Wilder $12.5 million guaranteed for a heavyweight unification title fight. Team Wilder – consisting of Al Haymon, Lou DiBella and Shelly Finkel – countered that the offer was too low because they believe Joshua vs Wilder could generate $100 million. ...

By Scoop Malinowski The time has come and gone long ago for Floyd Mayweather to be sacrificed. It’s the natural evolution of boxing, for the top figure of the sport to be sacrificed, so his star power can transfer to the next star and the money game keeps going. It ...

By Scoop Malinowski They say the best place to hide something is to put it right out in the open under everybody’s noses. That said, Deontay Wilder just dropped some interesting revelations about the future of his career in a recent interview with Greg Leon at Boxingtalk.com. Wilder sounds like ...

By Scoop Malinowski The third version of the world famous 5th Street Boxing Gym has sadly ceased operations. The new third location which opened on Alton Road in Miami Beach about two years ago, is no longer in business. I stopped by to visit the once thriving gym and owner ...

By Scoop Malinowski   Astute ring observers know that Deontay Wilder is nowhere near ready to face Anthony Joshua. So Wilder and his handlers, Shelly Finkel, Al Haymon and Lou DiBella have to create the illusion they want the fight and project their  duckery on Joshua and Eddie Hearn. Wilder ...

By Scoop Malinowski Anthony Joshua has said that he envisions Joseph Parker and Tyson Fury to be more challenging opponents than Deontay Wilder. The reigning world heavyweight champion Joshua from Great Britain sees Wilder as a threat but he already has formulated and publicly announced the game plan to use ...

By Scoop Malinowski On the surface, Deontay Wilder looked spectacular in overcoming a fierce challenge from Luis “King Kong” Ortiz, winning a back and forth, rock ’em, sock ’em slugfest by tenth round knockout. Wilder the WBC Heavyweight champion is now 40-0 with 38 KOs. The fight was strangely similar ...

  By Scoop Malinowski Deontay Wilder has been projecting his own image on to undisputed Heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua, calling the mighty Brit a protected franchise fighter, carefully protected by his greedy promoter Eddie Hearn. Joshua proved he’s the real deal and the undisputed best when he knocked out the ...

By Scoop Malinowski Deontay Wilder can talk a lot of bulljive, you have to give him that credit. He may not fight anyone of any substance or any challenger not controlled by his protector Al Haymon, but the man talks so much he most likely talks to himself and talks ...

              By Scoop Malinowski One of the greatest champions in boxing history has decided to hand up the gloves for the final time. The career of Roy Jones Jr. is over now but for those millions of us who had the pleasure to watch ...