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Deontay Wilder targeting May return to ring after broken hand suffered in brutal KO loss to Tyson Fury heals

, Deontay Wilder targeting May return to ring after broken hand suffered in brutal KO loss to Tyson Fury heals

DEONTAY WILDER is targeting a May return to the ring as he bids to get back into the heavyweight title picture.

The Bronze Bomber suffered a brutal 11th-round KO loss in his Las Vegas trilogy fight with Tyson Fury last month.

Deontay Wilder is champing at that bit to get back inside the ring
The Bronze Bomber suffered a brutal 11th-round KO loss to Tyson Fury last month

, Deontay Wilder targeting May return to ring after broken hand suffered in brutal KO loss to Tyson Fury heals

And coach Malik Scott has revealed the Bronze Bomber is targeting a May return to the ring

Wilder, 36, is currently banned from competing until April but plans to return to the ring shortly after serving his medical suspension.

Coach Malik Scott told World Boxing News: “We should be back in camp, in my opinion, no later than March and fight in May.

“Or we may be back in camp before March. It all depends on how he recovers, how he’s feeling, how everything’s going.”

He added: “Deontay said he’s going to go on vacation, and I’m all for that, and in a few months, we’ll be back in camp, and he’ll be fighting.”

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Scott insists his former opponent’s return to the ring won’t be a tune-up fight.

He said: “With Deontay, obviously, the first fight back is not going to be at the level that he just left. We have to do things the right way.


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“But at the same time, we can’t go much lower than that because he’s a high entertainment revenue fighter.

“He’s big-time boxing. We have to give him a threat because Deontay gets up for threats.

“Obviously, it won’t be a Fury level, but it won’t be somebody down in the bucket.

“We’re not going to get somebody with a record of 27-11. That’s not happening.

“It has to be a name that fans have heard of.”

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Although his man didn’t have his hand raised, Scott admits he thoroughly enjoyed Wilder’s epic trilogy fight with The Gypsy King.

, Deontay Wilder targeting May return to ring after broken hand suffered in brutal KO loss to Tyson Fury heals

Deontay Wilder’s next fight won’t be against an unknown name

, Deontay Wilder targeting May return to ring after broken hand suffered in brutal KO loss to Tyson Fury heals

Scott was thoroughly impressed by Wilder’s herculean effort against The Gypsy King

He said: “It was so good. It was such a good fight. Deontay would be out on his feet, and I knew we had clipped Fury.

“Then Fury would come back, and then he would knock Fury down, and Fury would get up.

“There were certain shots Fury was hitting Deontay with that he was on fumes.

“He caught Deontay with a shot one time from the blindside, and Deontay took that shot and continued to fight.

“Fury continued to come forward. I’ve never seen a gutsy balls trilogy at that level in the heavyweight division.

“That was a real battle of the giants.

“Before the fight, I called Fury a very, very good fighter.

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“After the fight, I gave him his credit and called him a great fighter because he beat a great fighter.”

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