Wilder will make his ninth heavyweight title defense against Breazeale on Saturday, May 18 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. If he is successful, he joins the elite company of champions that has defended the heavyweight title nine times like Mohammed Ali, Mike Tyson, Lenox Lewis and Wlademir Klitschko.
Wilder’s tough talk this week of possibly killing mandatory challenger Dominic Breazeale in the ring Tuesday May 14 at a media workout and repeated on Thursday at the final presser has attracted sharp criticism and rebuke from the WBC on Thursday, the same day Wilder continued making the same comments.
“Dominic Breazeale asked for this. I didn’t seek him out. He [came for] me,” Wilder said. “This isn’t a gentleman’s sport. We don’t ask to hit each other in the face but we do anyway. If you ask any doctor around the world he’ll tell you the head is not meant to be hit. This is the only sport where you can kill a man and get paid for it at the same time. It’s legal. So why not use my right to do so?”
Wilder on Thursday towed same line of the violent and trash talk and this time was more explicit.
“This has been a long time coming for me and Dominic. He asked for this, and he shall receive. Just like the Bible says — you ask, you shall receive. Come May 18 at the Barclays Center, he’s going to get everything he receives. I’m gonna fade him out, baby. I can’t wait. It’s gonna be an amazing night for me and sad time for him.
“I want to hurt Breazeale so bad. So bad, my blood is boiling right now. I can barely keep my composure right now. But due to the fact we can’t get paid outside of the ring — there’s a lot of money on the line, baby, and my family got to eat. So with that being said I will keep my composure until that time comes. I can’t wait. Come Saturday, I can do whatever I want to do. You better gather around your loved ones. You all better gather around him tonight because come Saturday night, he may not be able to talk to you. Trust me. You know I don’t play no games.”
The comment certainly caught the attention of Mauricio Sulaiman who Presides over the WBC with awe and immediately dissociate and rejected the comment made by Wilder.
“I have seen Deontay Wilder’s comments which are regrettable and completely against the spirit of our sport,” Sulaiman wrote on social media. “I have known Wilder for a long time and he is not the person he portrays in such comments. His metaphors are against the WBC code of ethics and will be addressed in a hearing.” Mauricio Sulaiman revealed.