{"id":313754,"date":"2019-05-15T17:24:24","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T00:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=313754"},"modified":"2019-05-15T17:24:24","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T00:24:24","slug":"deontay-wilder-says-he-wants-to-kill-an-opponent-in-boxing-because-its-legal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/boxing-news\/deontay-wilder-says-he-wants-to-kill-an-opponent-in-boxing-because-its-legal\/","title":{"rendered":"Deontay Wilder says he wants to kill an opponent in boxing &#8216;because it&#8217;s legal&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deontay Wilder is set to return to the ring this Saturday against Dominic Breazeale where he is looking to defend his WBC heavyweight title.<\/p>\n<p>And for the second fight in a row, Wilder has doubled down on his claim to kill someone in the ring. Before the Tyson Fury fight, the champion said he wants a body on his record. Now, the American is taking it a step further for this fight.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His life is on the line for this fight\u2026 and I do mean his life. I\u2019m still trying to get me a body on my record\u2026 Dominic Breazeale asked for his,&#8221; Deontay Wilder said to the media (h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/sport\/general\/boxing\/deontay-wilder-vs-dominic-breazeale-fight-kill-opponent-in-the-ring-legal-wbc-title-a8914891.html\">independent<\/a>). I didn\u2019t go seek him, he seeked me. So if it comes, it comes. This is a brutal sport, this is not a gentleman\u2019s sport. I keep saying this is not a gentleman\u2019s sport, we don\u2019t ask to hit each other in the face, but we do anyway.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And you can ask any doctor around the world, he\u2019ll tell you the head is not meant to be hit. Anybody can go and, on this particular time, we have bad blood against each other,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;This is the only sport where you can kill a man and get paid for it at the same time. It\u2019s legal, so why not use my right to do so?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, just a few weeks back, Deontay Wilder told Breazeale that he should \u201cmake some funeral arrangements\u201d for after their fight. Since the 33-year-old has said these comments, he has received a ton of backlash, including from Eddie Hearn who said: &#8220;it was bad for the sport&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, Wilder is looking to get back into the win column on Saturday after fighting to a <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/boxing-news\/deontay-wilder-vs-tyson-fury-declared-a-draw-highlights\/\">controversial draw to Tyson Fury<\/a> in his last fight.<\/p>\n<p>What do you make of Deontay Wilder comments? Sound off in the comment section, PENN Nation!<\/p>\n<p><em>This article first appeared on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\">BJPenn.com<\/a>\u00a0on 5\/15\/2019<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deontay Wilder is set to return to the ring this Saturday against Dominic Breazeale where he is looking to defend his WBC heavyweight title. And for the second fight in a row, Wilder has doubled down on his claim to kill someone in the ring. Before the Tyson Fury fight, the champion said he wants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54463,"featured_media":293908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10107,18916],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Deontay Wilder says he wants to kill an opponent in boxing &#039;because it&#039;s legal&#039; | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"For the second fight in a row, WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder has doubled down on his claim to kill someone in the ring.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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