WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (41-0-1, 40 KOs) destroyed Dominic Breazeale (20-2, 18 KOs) in the opening round of Saturday night’s Showtime Championship Boxing main event. Known as a tremendously hard puncher, Wilder belted Breazeale with a right hand that crashed him to the canvas. Somehow Breazeale was able to get back to his feet, but he was wobbly and the fight was stopped anyway.
Despite the fact that Breazeale didn’t actually beat the ten-count, he insisted in a post-fight interview — this was not on the Showtime broadcast, but later on in the evening — that this was a premature stoppage.