Deontay Wilder vs. Zhilei Zhang fight predictions, start time, odds, preview, undercard, expert picks

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 When Deontay Wilder and Zhilei Zhang meet in the ring in Saudi Arabia on Saturday, they'll do so knowing the situation could be do or die for their championship hopes. Two of the heavyweight division's most powerful punchers, Wilder and Zhang both enter their fight coming off a loss in their most recent outing, knocking them down the ladder in boxing's glamour division.

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In an interesting twist, both Wilder and Zhang's most recent loss came at the hands of Joseph Parker, who entered the ring as an underdog in both fights. Parker now sits above both men in the heavyweight division, which is in something of a boom period following Oleksandr Usyk's recent win over Tyson Fury to become the division's first four-belt undisputed champion.


Wilder is hoping to earn a shot at one of those championships, having previously held the WBC championship from 2015 to 2020, after he suffered a knockout loss to Fury.


Wilder ranks among the hardest pound-for-pound punchers in boxing history, scoring 41 knockouts in his 42 career victories. That power wasn't able to put Fury away in their three fights, where Wilder managed a split draw before being stopped twice. The Parker fight raised new concerns for Wilder as he did not fight aggressively, threw very few punches and looked generally uninterested in being in the fight en route to losing by scores of 118-111, 118-110 and 120-108.


"I'm very confident in what I've been stating," Wilder said at the final press conference this week. "I'm very excited to be working alongside Eddie, we haven't had the best of relationships in the past, but the thing about time is time brings about changes and I've been a part of changes. At this period in time, we're like a warrior's drum, with one beat and one sound, and on this left side [with his four teammates in the 5 x 5 event] you can feel this energy that we're not playing no games. We come to win and we come to knock them out. The five on five, we're going on a five-man sweep and I'm looking forward to Saturday night."

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That same level of passivity and lack of fire could spell disaster for Wilder against a fighter like Zhang, who has plenty of pop of his own and loves to let his hands go early in fights. In 26 career victories, Zhang has stopped 21 opponents.

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