‘You can kill a man and get paid for it’ – Deontay Wilder shocks fans ahead of heavyweight clash against Dominic Breazeale
- The Bronze Bomber says he was trying to ‘get me a body on my record’
- Fans think the unbeaten champion should be banned from the sport
WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder has angered and shocked fans after doubling down on his threat to kill Dominic Breazeale in the ring in New York on Saturday.
Wilder made his intentions clear when he spoke to reporters ahead of his WBC title defence against his bitter rival, saying he was “trying to get me a body on my record” and that boxing was “a brutal sport”.
“His life is on the line for this fight … and I do mean his life,” Wilder said after working out. “I’m still trying to get me a body on my record. Dominic Breazeale asked for this. I didn’t go seek him, he seeked [sic] me. So if it comes, it comes.
“This is a brutal sport, this is not a gentleman’s sport. I keep saying this is not a gentleman’s sport, we don’t ask to hit each other in the face, but we do anyway.
“And you can ask any doctor around the world, he’ll 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.”
