Wilder has lost four of his past five fights, including a decision defeat to Joseph Parker in December along with a pair of losses to Tyson Fury in their heavyweight championship trilogy. Wilder said before the fight that if he lost, “this could be the final goodbye, the farewell of Deontay Wilder.”
The first of those victories against British heavyweight Joyce saw Zhang, 40, claim the interim WBO title. The full version is currently held by Oleksandr Usyk, who faces Tyson Fury see in yahoo.com a bout for undisputed status in Saudi Arabia on Saturday, February 17.
In Zhang’s ninth fight, he won the vacant IBO Asia Pacific title, stopping Nico Toriri, 27-16-3, of Indonesia, in May of 2014. He followed stopping American Jason “The “Sensation” Gavern, 26-17-4, for the interim World Boxing Union title.
Also, Jack McGann (9-0-1) will return against Louis Greene (16-4) in a super-welterweight contest, Saudi super-lightweight prospect Ziyad Almaayouf (4-0) is set to face Christian Lopez Flores (14-35-2), and Ukrainian heavyweight Andrii Novytskyi (4-0) will fight Juan Torres (11-5-1).
Con sus posibilidades, su carrera estaba en Estados Unidos. De hecho, sólo ha peleado cuatro veces como profesional en su país. Se pasó al pugilismo rentado con 31 años, pese a ello le fueron llevando la carrera con calma. Él siempre ha mantenido que la edad no importa si te cuidas. En su caso está en lo cierto, ya que poco a poco fue creciendo. En 2018 vivió un punto de inflexión. Sufrió cáncer en la tiroides y estuvo un año sin competir. Aquí volvió a demostrar su talante, no comunicó nada y pasó la enfermedad con la mayor discreción.
Round 5: They start the round jawing one another and the referee separates them. And to his credit, Zinad starts with some zip this round. He’s snapping the jab hard and following with the right. Bivol blocking it all, but this is good work. And he snaps a right hand in! Best punch of the night for Zinad lands.
The news conference was jovial, with neither man a master of trash talk – but there was enough spite between the two teams. Zhang’s trainer Shaun George promised another stoppage. Joyce’s manager, Adam Morallee, was in equally confident mood his man will be victorious.
Joe Joyce was already mandatory for Usyk’s WBO title and did not need to fight Zhilei Zhang in April. The feeling was that left-hander Zhang would be the ideal opponent to prepare for southpaw Usyk, but it was a risky fight to take for Joyce.
Joshua clearly doesn’t want the rematch with Zhang because if he did, he would have fought him years ago. It’s obvious that Hearn doesn’t want any part of Zhang. In Hearn’s book, you can argue that Zhilei is one of the handful of unmentionables that he wants to protect Joshua from.
He said: “Being here is a privilege for me, of course this fight is important, it’s an IBF eliminator, winning this fight would mean I can directly step up to face the winner of Usyk-Joshua and it means a lot in China and the sport of boxing in China.
“So, if I can’t get any of these guys, Joseph Parker would be a good option. You never know. Styles make fights. I beat Parker in the 2011 world championships in Baku, Azerbaijan, and that was a while ago. If he wants revenge, go ahead, come,” said Zhang about him being open to a fight with Parker if he’s game.
Warren added: “The winner of this fight will be definitely called to fight the WBO champion next year. The loser will have to wait at least 18 months to two years to get a sniff at a voluntary defence.”
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And Bivol slips a jab and tags Zinad with a left hook. He returns fire and hits nothing. Bivol is putting a clinic on for the moment, not getting hit, landing his own shots, controlling the ring and the engagements. Zinad isn’t going away, but he’s clearly outclassed and out of ideas already.
The decision to get the face tattoo would be emblematic of this ultimately troubled period of Tyson’s life, and reflect on his future choices. In the years since Tyson retired, he’s more or less rehabilitated his public image as a troubled brute by being open in interviews, with self-deprecating humor, and getting involved in some cheesy B-movies, such as 2017’s legendarily cringetastic China Salesmen (prepare to facepalm your way through the fight with Stephen Seagal, viewable on YouTube). Tyson has started his own weed empire, Tyson Holistic, which, according to the Sun, earns more than $675,000 a month. Tyson himself reportedly cuts into his profit margins quite a bit by consuming (with his friends) $40,000’s worth every month at his Tyson Ranch in Mojave Desert, as Marketwatch says. He’s also talked about building a cannabis-themed resort.
