Deontay Wilder 's head coach says he's never seen Wilder as hungry for a fight before as he prepares to face WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury in October.
Wilder vs Fury 3 was originally scheduled to take place on July 24, but the date was pushed back to due to an outbreak of COVID-19 in Fury's training camp. The fight will now take place on October 9 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
Malik Scott, who is the head coach and a former opponent of Wilder's, explained why he is extremely confident that Wilder will be able to hand Fury his first career loss.
"Well for one because I'm training him now. For two I've never seen him this hungry before, I've never seen him this receptive for the craft," Scott said on Instagram.
"And I've never seen him want to dismantle another man so bad. Not at all. My only concern is that we are in this scenario with an admitted headcase. My only concern is is Fury NOT showing up."
Wilder appointed Scott as his head trainer the day after his stoppage loss to Fury last year. 'The Bronze Bomber' decide to part ways with Mark Breland, who threw in the towel to end the rematch with Fury.
"After the loss against Fury, by 3am or 4am, it was somewhere around there. We was already in motion and putting the play together on what was going on now," Scott said on the PBC podcast.
"He immediately was already planning, 'Like bro, you're my head guy now.' We knew this from day one that adjustments had to be made and certain things that we wanted to do just have to be put in place.
"It works perfectly, because I believe one of the most imperative things between fighter and training is just not the teaching and learning, [it's] the chemistry."
Now his coach, Scott was stopped in the first round by Wilder when they fought in 2014. Scott would go on to retire from professional competition two years later.
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And on partnering with Scott, Wilder said: "Malik is my true brother. Even before me and Malik fought, we were very close," said Wilder in an interview with Premier Boxing Champions. Throughout our careers we have always talked.
"I always wanted to bring him in because of his genius and his mindset as a fighter. He's a genius in his mind, he knows what to do, but he just didn't have the athletic body to be able to perform what's in his head.
"I am the athlete - with instructions and teachings I am able to perform what he thinks and what he strategizes."
