{"id":587376,"date":"2026-04-05T16:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T16:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/587376\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T16:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T16:31:10","slug":"deontay-wilder-vehemently-denies-claims-he-assaulted-former-partners-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/587376\/","title":{"rendered":"Deontay Wilder ‘vehemently denies’ claims he assaulted former partner’s son"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deontay Wilder “vehemently denies” allegations he physically assaulted the son of his ex-partner, says the former world heavyweight boxing champion’s lawyer.<\/p>\n

US outlet TMZ, external<\/a> reports Kerron Swift has filed a civil lawsuit suing Wilder for claims including “battery, assault, emotional distress, and false imprisonment”.<\/p>\n

Swift – the son of Wilder’s ex-fiancee Telli Swift – claims the abuse took place between 2016 and 2024, a period during which he was a minor.<\/p>\n

BBC Sport has not seen the lawsuit, but Wilder’s lawyer Paul Patterson confirmed it had been filed in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

He said his client denied allegations which were “riddled with complete and utter fabrications” and had “never physically disciplined any child”.<\/p>\n

“We look forward to defending this case,” he added.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, American Wilder beat Briton Derek Chisora by split decision<\/a> in their heavyweight bout at London’s O2 Arena.<\/p>\n

That win came after the 40-year-old had lost four of his previous six bouts, and puts his fight record at 45-4-1.<\/p>\n

Patterson said the timing of the lawsuit was a “classic smear campaign” to distract from the fight.<\/p>\n

But the law firm representing Swift – the X-Law Group PC – told TMZ it “filed this action quietly and without a press release – the opposite of what we would have done if the intent were to generate publicity”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deontay Wilder “vehemently denies” allegations he physically assaulted the son of his ex-partner, says the former world heavyweight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-587376","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587376","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=587376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}