{"id":36774,"date":"2014-03-10T17:50:57","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T23:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=36774"},"modified":"2014-03-10T17:50:57","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T23:20:57","slug":"deontay-wilder-american-heavyweight-boxing-news-malik-scott-showdown-saturday-night-showtime-boxing-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=36774","title":{"rendered":"Deontay Wilder: American Heavyweight Boxing News: Malik Scott Showdown Saturday Night \u2013 SHOWTIME BOXING NEWS"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>By Geno McGahee<\/strong><\/p>\n

The heavyweight title has been a stranger to the American big man for years. At one time, the division was made up of all good heavyweights from the states, but times have changed and no American has held the legitimate heavyweight title in years. Deontay Wilder, 30-0, 30 KO\u2019s, wants that to change and he has been turning some heads with his explosive punching power and towering height. <\/p>\n

At six feet, seven inches, he is the image of the modern big heavyweight. There are many questions surrounding him as a fighter, but nobody questions the power. When he lands, nothing is left of his opposition, but his opposition has been less than stellar. He has caught a lot of fighters on the way down like former WBO heavyweight champion, Sergei Liakhovich (KO-1) and Audley Harrison (KO-1) and has feasted on a long line of mediocrities otherwise. Because he has been matched so softly, there are skeptics out there that are curious as to why that is. Does he have a glass jaw? How does he react when his opponent won\u2019t go down? These are questions that will probably not be answered on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

When it comes to being matched softly, Malik Scott, 36-1-1, 13 KO\u2019s, could be the spokesman. He has built his record on career losers and journeymen fighters, and when he stepped up against Dereck Chisora, he was knocked out in six rounds. Chisora has clubbing power, but he isn\u2019t the monster puncher that Wilder is. Scott doesn\u2019t seem to have much to worry Wilder with and appears just to be another lamb led to slaughter, but there is one hope for the underdog and that is to frustrate and confuse the big man.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s against the nature of Scott to stay close, but he can\u2019t stay in the range that the typical opposition has with Wilder. Look at Liakhovich. He elected to stay on the outside and he was turned into a quivering mess on the canvas, flailing his arms and legs. If you stay at the end of his punches, you\u2019re going to get knocked out.<\/p>\n

Nicolai Firtha, a journeyman heavyweight at best, took Wilder four rounds by hanging tough and trying to stay close. Scott needs to do so. Unfortunately, I see him attempting to outbox Wilder and dodge the incoming, but he can\u2019t dodge them all and it only takes one. This should be a very quick night of boxing with Wilder once again showing us a display of power on an overmatched opponent. It\u2019s hard to imagine that Wilder is growing much as a fighter with these hand-picked opponents that fall down as soon as he swings. It will be nice to see him face a durable foe that has been around the block and can take him some rounds, but it won\u2019t be on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

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By Geno McGahee The heavyweight title has been a stranger to the American big man for years. At one time, the division was made up of all good heavyweights from the states, but times have changed and no American has held the legitimate heavyweight title in years. Deontay Wilder, 30-0, 30 KO\u2019s, wants that to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[105,532,6504],"class_list":["post-36774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-boxing","tag-news","tag-wilder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36774"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}