Former heavyweight champ Deontay Wilder is scheduled to fight unbeaten contender Jared Anderson on Aug. 3.
A clash between former heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder and undefeated contender Jared Anderson is being planned for Aug. 3 in Los Angeles, Turki Alalshikh, the chairman of Saudi Arabia's General Entertainment Authority, announced Monday evening on social media.
Alalshikh said Wilder will be Anderson's opponent"if he's ready by then to fight." If Wilder doesn't perform well, Anderson could face a different foe on the stacked Terence Crawford-Israil Madrimov undercard, Saudi Arabia's first boxing event outside the Kingdom. In December, Anderson pleaded no contest to improperly handling firearms in a motor vehicle while an OVI charge was dropped in connection with a November 2023 arrest in Ohio. Anderson was fined $200 and handed a 180-day suspended sentence contingent on him not committing a similar offense within one year.
Wilder, an Olympic bronze medalist, is one of the most dangerous punchers in the storied history of the heavyweight division. He floored heavyweight champion Tyson Fury four times during their epic trilogy, going 0-2-1.
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