{"id":389127,"date":"2026-01-03T14:17:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T14:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/389127\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T14:17:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T14:17:17","slug":"deontay-wilder-names-his-1-dream-opponent-from-boxing-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/389127\/","title":{"rendered":"Deontay Wilder names his 1 dream opponent from boxing history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deontay Wilder is 2-4 in his last six fights, but is being heavily linked with a 2026 fight against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxingscene.com\/articles\/oleksandr-usyk-team-looking-at-vegas-los-angeles-for-wilder-clash-next-spring\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Oleksandr Usyk<\/a>. The Bronze Bomber was one of the most feared heavyweights for a number of years, due to his devastating punch power. When speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vegasinsider.com\/boxing\/deontay-wilder-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Vegas Insider<\/a>, Wilder revealed his one dream opponent from boxing history.<\/p>\n<p>Deontay Wilder names his dream opponent<\/p>\n<p>When asked to name the one fighter he\u2019d love to fight from boxing history, <a href=\"https:\/\/bigfightweekend.com\/news\/deontay-wilder-names-hardest-puncher\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Bronze Bomber<\/a> said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always say this one particular guy. Because of how I got into boxing and my nickname is named after him. Something to carry along within that name. And what I\u2019m talking about is <a href=\"https:\/\/bigfightweekend.com\/news\/joe-louis-takes-decision-jersey-joe-walcott\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Louis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, Joe Louis (66-3, 52 KOs) was from Alabama. He was the Brown bomber. I came along, I\u2019m from Alabama, I won a bronze medal in the Olympics, and I became the bronze bomber.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s put the brown bomber with the bronze bomber. You know what I\u2019m saying?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust got that ring to it. And I always liked that. There\u2019s so many fighters that I can name though, because there\u2019re so many great fighters that have come before us and that are being created.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve always said him and I had to keep it for those reasons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s another guy I would\u2019ve loved to fight, is Evander Holyfield, one of the best in the world. I didn\u2019t get his credit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was a hell of a fighter. I could say him as well being from Alabama too. But, you know, these moments are not for certain names to be said, you know what I mean?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just, I\u2019m an energy person. Like I said, I go out how I feel about things and what things have been asked to me or, or said to me a certain way as I know what my feelings are. And still to this day, it\u2019s Joe Louis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe in 20 years, it may change. I may say someone else, but Joe Louis is still the guy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Deontay Wilder vs Joe Louis, who would have won and how?<\/p>\n<p>The future for Deontay Wilder<\/p>\n<p>Despite winning his last fight against <a href=\"https:\/\/bigfightweekend.com\/recaps\/deontay-wilder-vs-tyrrell-herndon-recap\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyrrell Herndon<\/a>, Wilder (44-4-1, 43 KOs) still has questions to answer. What does he have left? Is the desire still there? Does Wilder still have the power to trouble the best heavyweights?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yes, winning his last fight was hugely important for the Alabama native, but there are still plenty of questions to answer. A potential fight between Deontay Wilder and Usyk looks straightforward for the mercurial Ukrainian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deontay Wilder is 2-4 in his last six fights, but is being heavily linked with a 2026 fight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-389127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}