Former American WBC heavyweight title holder Deontay Wilder has declared that he is now rejuvenated and reinvented ahead of trilogy bout against British boxer Tyson Fury.
Wilder who made the declaration during an interview journalists stated that he had done the hard work of training camp and was winding down, just two weeks away from his hoped-for revenge against champion Tyson Fury.
They were set for their third meeting, which was scheduled for July 24 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, when Ring Magazine champion and WBC titleholder Fury (30-0-1, 21 KOs), 33, of England, was forced to postpone the bout after coming down with COVID-19.
Wilder’s fight with Fury (who had stopped him in the seventh round of their February 2020 rematch to take his belt) will now take place on Saturday (ESPN/Fox Sports PPV, 9 p.m. ET) at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
However, Wilder took the postponement in stride and even proclaimed that he was better off for it.
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“This time that has passed has been great for me,” Wilder said on a recent call with reporters to discuss the fight. “With the more time that’s passed, the more that we’ve been able to work on different little things and perfect them. You can’t always be perfect, but that doesn’t mean you can’t train to be perfect.
“The delay was actually a blessing for me. The more they delayed it, the more time we had to work on my craft and art, along with strategically going over the game plan we’re going to have on (Saturday). It was obviously frustrating, because I was ready to go, and this is the longest I’ve been out of the ring. There’s something about the ring that calls you and draws you back. You know, even when you sometimes may wanna give up, sometimes you may just wanna quit or just say, ‘I don’t wanna do it no more,’ it’s just something about boxing. It just draws you back. Look at all the retired guys coming back. But that time we had, I’ve used the time and benefited tremendously,” the boxer added.
