LAS VEGAS — The best way to judge a man is not by what he says but by what he does.
Deontay Wilder follows in the long tradition of boxers who freely speak their minds, and he often does so while using loud and colorful language. He startled a group of reporters surrounding him Wednesday following a news conference at the MGM Grand to promote his WBC heavyweight title defense Saturday against Luis Ortiz when he leaned into a microphone and without warning shrieked his tagline, “Booooooomb Squaaaaaaaaad!”
Wilder is at the stage in his boxing career where he can pick and choose the fights he wants, and he willingly chose to fight Ortiz in a rematch of a 2018 fight in which Ortiz nearly stopped him.