Deontay Wilder beats Artur Spzilka with stunning knockout

Wilder knocked out Artur Szpilka in the ninth round after a somewhat slow start against the Pole.

It is the void at the top of the sport, the lack of a charismatic heavyweight champion, preferably American, but in any case, the kind of fighter who puts people in the seats and, at least one night a year, is capable of making the entire sports world stop to pay attention. “Anywhere. I’ll fight you in your back garden”, Fury responded.

Tyson Fury confronts Deontay Wilder after American beat Artur Szpilka in Brooklyn.

Szpilka, who was bidding to become Poland’s first world heavyweight champion, made it a close battle before absorbing a tough right hand to the chin with 2:24 left in the ninth round.

The knockout was so powerful that Szpilka laid flat on his back for several minutes before being removed from the ring on a back board and taken to the hospital for evaluation.

Fury slammed down his jacket and could not be restrained by security, furiously issuing Wilder a challenge to unify the belts. I’m looking forward to get him out of his zone and to come to America.

“You can run around like you’re a preacher all you want but you step in the ring, I promise you I will baptize you”, Wilder said, as 12,668 fans roared.

Now fully healed, he is focusing on Americans Wilder (36-0, 35 KOs) and Martin (23-0-1, 21 KOs) rather than fellow Briton Tyson Fury (25-0, 18 KOs), the WBA-WBO world champion who says he has no interest in fighting Haye.

In the actual fight, Szpilka and Wilder threw and missed a ton of punches until the 9th round when Wilder slumped Szpilka and he had to be taken out of the ring on a stretcher. He brought the power by just absolutely leveling his challenger and ending the fight right then and there. Neither fighter is likely to be available to face each other next.

“I want to fight again as soon as possible”, Haye said. “I’ve been waiting for Povetkin for a very long time”. He fell to the canvas later after throwing a punch.

“I know he likes to promote, we’ve been trying to fight him for a while”. Vyacheslav Glazkov lost after falling and tearing a knee ligament in the third round.