On February 25th at the Legacy arena in Alabama, it's now Been announced that WBC champion Deontay Wilder (37/0 36 knockouts) will face Andrzej Wawrzyk of Poland (33/1 19 Knockouts) in his 5th defence of the championship he won nearly 2 years ago from Bermaine Stiverne in Las Vegas.. The undercard has not yet been finalised but word has it that tough Pole Artur Szpilka (20/2 15 Knockouts) will face Dominick Breazeale (17/1 15 Knockouts) in a battle of two former world title challengers, Szpilka having lost via stoppage to Wilder in his last outing while Breazeale received his only loss in an IBF title challenge to Anthony Joshua back in June via 7th round stoppage.. There looks to be another heavyweight co-feature on this card between tough Amir Mansour (22/2 16 Knockouts) and Travis Kauffman (31/1 23 Knockouts) a bout that looked destined to happen almost a year ago.. Amir looked set for a day in the sun last year when he dropped the unbeaten Breazeale before succumbing to an injury a round later, whereas Travis was unlucky not to have received a title shot in July against Wilder.. Having appeared to have done enough in his bout with Chris Arreola, even dropping the Riverside fighter in the third.. The fight was scored a razor thin split verdict for Arreola, before being changed to a NC following an Arreola drug test failure.. Arreola was given the call last minute to get his third shot at a title against Wilder back in July, regardless of his drug test failure after Wilders bout with Povetkin collapsed, ironically following a test failure by the Russian for Meldonium.. Although these two are probably the two more capable fighters on the card, they are the only two out of the 6 heavyweights that have yet to get a title shot.. I expect the winner of this bout at some point to get rewarded with such..
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