{"id":351279,"date":"2025-12-17T14:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T14:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/351279\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T14:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T14:54:08","slug":"deontay-wilder-says-only-one-heavyweight-was-unbeatable-in-his-prime-nobody-beats-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/351279\/","title":{"rendered":"Deontay Wilder says only one heavyweight was unbeatable in his prime: &#8220;Nobody beats him&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/deontay-wilder\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deontay Wilder<\/a> may be on the verge of a surprise world title challenge, but the former WBC champion has named one former ruler whom he believes that nobody could beat when at his best.<\/p>\n<p>Wilder made 10 defences of the WBC heavyweight world title after winning the belt in 2015, with all of his wins as a champion coming by way of knockout.<\/p>\n<p>However, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/32361132\/tyson-fury-deontay-wilder-3-live-results-analysis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">his reign was brought to an end by Tyson Fury in 2020<\/a>, in a defeat which begun his current run of just two triumphs in his last six fights.<\/p>\n<p>Still, despite just one victory since 2022, the <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/wilder-provides-update-on-usyk-fight\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">40-year-old seems poised to challenge Oleksandr Usyk for the unified heavyweight world titles next year<\/a>, as the Tuscaloosa-born knockout artist seeks to become a two-time heavyweight champion.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@dailymailsport\/video\/7583011690187410710?_r=1&amp;_t=ZN-92AalQbuahC\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Mail Sport<\/a>, Wilder reflected on the champions of old ahead of his apparent bid to return to the throne, where he declared his belief that <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/muhammad-ali\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Muhammad Ali<\/a> could not be beaten, when discussing a host of fantasy fights involving former heavyweight conquerors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, Ali [would beat Usyk]! Ain\u2019t nobody beating Ali. I\u2019m sorry, that is my guy!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It has now been confirmed that the WBC will permit <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/heavyweight-champ-agrees-to-face-usyk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Usyk a voluntary defence of their title and thus allow the Ukrainian to take on Wilder<\/a>, who is currently ranked at #13 by the sanctioning body.<\/p>\n<p>Although, it is unclear whether Usyk intends to keep his other belts, with the WBA expected to order a rematch between he and Murat Gassiev in the near future, following the Russian\u2019s victory over Kubrat Pulev last Friday.<\/p>\n<p>                                            <script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deontay Wilder may be on the verge of a surprise world title challenge, but the former WBC champion&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-351279","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}