“Incredible, amazing, fun” – Eddie Hearn, Johnny Nelson and Dave Coldwell give their opinion on a possible Deontay Wilder-Zhilei Zhang fight

HAVING misplaced their final fights Deontay Wilder and Zhilei Zhang are in want of a massive win.

The two heavyweights each fell brief towards the identical man – Joseph Parker – in December 2023 and March 2024, respectively, however may face each other subsequent.

On Friday ESPN reported that a fight between the 2 is being mentioned for June 1 in Saudi Arabia. Although it’s a principal occasion in its personal proper it could in reality be one of many help bouts to the undisputed mild-heavyweight title principal occasion between Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol. With Matchroom and Queensberry going head-to-head with their Five vs. Five sequence of fights on the identical card there’s a doubtlessly thrilling night time of boxing in prospect.

Promoter Eddie Hearn, who has been working with Turki Alalshikh (the chairman of Saudi Arabia’s General Entertainment Authority) on numerous offers together with bringing Anthony Joshua to Saudi for large fights informed Boxing News that nothing is confirmed for what can be a crossroads fight between Wilder and Zhang.

“As always myself George Warren, Frank [Warren], His Excellency… we talk about loads of different fights to bring to huge shows. It’s like Championship Manager. You talk about [Andy] Ruiz v Wilder, you talk about Zhang v Wilder, [Agit] Kabayel against [Daniel] Dubois, [Filip] Hrgovic against Joshua. Nothing is done but at the same time that’s a fight that would be incredible. Honestly, 30 fights have probably been mentioned.”

Two males who may discuss Wilder vs. Zhang have been former WBO cruiserweight title holder turned Sky Boxing pundit Johnny Nelson and Tony Bellew’s former coach and half-time Sky Sports pundit Dave Coldwell. The Sheffield natives have been in attendance final night time (March 23) on the metropolis’s Utilita Arena to look at tremendous-light-weight contender Dalton Smith cross his hardest check but towards former world title challenger Jose Zepeda. Following the night time’s motion Nelson and Coldwell talked to BN about the opportunity of the “The Bronze Bomber” taking on “Big Bang”.

“Good fight. If Wilder is the fighter, he was that’ll be an amazing fight,” Nelson stated.

“If he’s the fighter he is now as in the fight with Parker you’ve got to think to yourself that’s a car crash waiting to happen. You look at it and think was it an off night or have we seen the best of Wilder?”

“Fun fight,” Coldwell commented. “I’d watch that. Wilder can’t look any worse than he did in his last fight and Zhang pretty much [the] same. I think it’s a great fight and I don’t know who wins so I want to see it.”