DEONTAY WILDER believes boxing fans are being deprived of the best bouts because fighters are making ‘excuses’ not to face one another.
The biggest criticism the sport has received over the last decade is that big fights aren’t being put together or are being made too late.
The long-awaited Fight of the Century between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao is a testament to the latter fact, with the fight being made after the pair’s primes.
That trend, sadly, has continued, much to the frustration of former WBC champ Wilder.
He told 78SPORTSTV: “You have so many guys coming up with excuses to avoid fighters, the best not fighting the best.”
Wilder’s frustration with the fight game is so strong that he’s looking forward to hanging up his gloves.
He continued: “Sometimes I’m just like, ‘I can’t wait for the point in time where I do retire.’
“I don’t think I’m gonna miss it… Once I retire, they’re gonna miss me.”
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Wilder, 35, is currently gearing up for a Las Vegas trilogy fight with bitter rival Tyson Fury, whom he’ll meet on October 9.
The Bronze Bomber suffered a seventh-round TKO defeat to The Gypsy King in their February rematch.
And he’s taken their war of words to the next level by branding the Wythenshawe warrior ‘one of the biggest cheats in boxing’.
He said: “Look at Tyson Fury’s rap sheet, he’s one of the biggest cheats in boxing, but do you ever hear about it?
You have so many guys coming up with excuses to avoid fighters, the best not fighting the best
Deontay Wilder
“They don’t care.
“When it’s all said and done, all over for me, I can look myself in the face, in the mirror and say, ‘I did it the right way.”
Olympic bronze medallist Wilder is hellbent on avenging his first professional loss in devastating fashion, saying: “My mind is very violent.
“We built a whole facility to commit a legal homicide and that’s just what it is, my mind is very violent at this time.
“I can’t wait, when you’re contemplating and pre-meditating about harming a man and you see that person, what you’ve been thinking and feeling will come out.
“The only thing about it is, at that point in time, I have to wait until I get in the ring to really release because I can’t do it on the outside, it’d defeat the purpose.
“The baby’s got to eat, but when I do get in the ring, this is what I love about it, I’m able to release everything I’ve been feeling, everything I’ve been thinking, and get paid to do it.”
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Source: Boxing - thesun.co.uk
