Donate to get Deontay Wilder Memorabilia!

Please visit http://www.gofundme.com/66yqvc to donate and receive this print, autographed by all of the members of Team Wilder!   Or.....

$25 to receive this fight poster autographed by Deontay Wilder!

Donate to Skyy South Boxing Gym and Get Deontay Wilder Memorabilia!

The Skyy South Boxing Gym is open and needs your help!! 

Coffeeville High School had closed. The town in rural southwest Alabama, population 364 was thought to be down and out. With the help of Mayor Robert Cox, we took over the broken down, dust and grime filled gym and restored it as a boxing gym for the youth of the area!

Kids from three underpriveleged counties (Clarke, Washington and Choctaw) now use our gym every week. There is never a charge for them to use the gym. It is totally free! 

This is our way of giving back to the people of Coffeeville, where Deontay "Bronze Bomber" Wilder has hunted and fished for years. 

Deontay is 30-0 with 30 knockouts in the heavyweight division. He is ranked #3 in the World. He is the current WBC Continental Americas Champion. He was the last American male to win a medal in boxing at the Olympics, bringing home the Bronze from the Beijing Games in 2008. He supports the gym and the kids of the Coffeeville area. Mark Breland, 1984 Gold Medalist and two-time World Champ has been to Coffeeville several times. Russ Anber of the Rival Boxing Company not only donated premium heavybags, but flew in from Montreal to personally help hang them!!

So you see, we have a great thing going but we need your help. We are seeking $4250 as a way to keep the gym going. This will help with electricity, insurance, equipment and upkeep. Please help us.

Please visit our Go Fund Me page at www.gofundme.com/66yqvc to donate to this cause.

In return, we will offer you really cool original stuff!

If you donate $25 you get an actual Deontay Wilder program from one of his fights.

For $40 you get a print of "Team Wilder/Wilder in Action" signed by Deontay and the program!

For $50 or more you get a print of "Team Wilder/Wilder in Action" signed by Deontay and the team which includes Mark Breland, Russ Anber, Jay Deas and Cuz Hill plus the program!

This is a two month fundraising campaign. Get your authentic Deontay autograph and help a great cause out at the same time!!

First Pro Boxing Show in Coffeeville History is Big Success!

Skyy South Boxing Gym hosted the Coffeeville Classic - Round 1!  The show featured two professional bouts and Golden Gloves Sparring.  In the Pro bouts, Israel "Kid Izzy" Luna won a four round decision over Ricky Dinkins.  Luna was the three time Colombian National Champ before turning pro under the Skyy Banner.  He is now 3-0 with 2 knockouts.  In the main event, Keandrae "Lightning" Leatherwood won by 2nd round knockout over Scoey Fields.  Leatherwood, who has appeared on Showtime TV, is also with Skyy and improved his record to 13-2-1.

In sparring, Skyy boxer KeEric Hinton, who won the 2013 Alabama Golden Gloves, Thomas Knox, Deon Nicholson, Shawn Mason, DeTron Burton, Amber Rockwell, and Victoria Maloney all showed excellent skills and put on a great exhibition of boxing for the fans.

The event was free to the public.  Special guests included boxers Deontay Wilder and Thomas Howard.

LIVE BOXING AT SKYY SOUTH BOXING GYM!!!

We are hosting LIVE BOXING on Sunday, December 15th at 1 pm at Skyy South Boxing Gym in Coffeeville!  There will be a statewide judges and refs clinic at 11 am, followed by live boxing at 1 pm. This even is FREE to the public and will feature up and coming stars Keandrae "Lightning" Leatherwood and Colombian Champ Israel "Kid Izzy" Luna.

Interview wth Deontay Wilder

Tuscaloosa's Deontay Wilder could be in line for heavyweight title shot

By D.C. Reeves

Sports Writer | The Tuscaloosa News

Published: Monday, October 28, 2013 at 5:00 a.m.

Last Modified: Sunday, October 27, 2013 at 11:39 p.m.

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. | After 30 wins and 30 knockouts, a world title shot could be next for Tuscaloosa's Deontay Wilder.

Richard Schaefer, the CEO of Wilder's promotional company, Golden Boy Promotions, said he is working on a fight between Wilder (30-0, 30 KO) and Canadian Bermane Stiverne (22-1-1, 20 KO) for the WBC heavyweight title.

Schaefer made the announcement following Wilder's fourth-round TKO of Nicolai Firtha at Boardwalk Hall on Saturday night.

Schaefer said discussions between Golden Boy and Stiverne's representatives about a potential match are ongoing.

“(Wilder-Stiverne) was the plan, that is the plan,” Schaefer said. “I'm going to do whatever is in my power to get it done because I know (Wilder) is going to do everything in the ring to make that plan come true.”

The opportunity for a world championship arises because current WBC champion Vitali Klitschko, 42, plans to run for president in his home country of Ukraine in 2015 and will likely vacate the belt.

There are a couple of hurdles, however.

First, Klitschko will have to officially notify the WBC that he is vacating the title. Schaefer believes that announcement will come in December.

The second hurdle is the WBC will have to agree to award the vacated belt to the Wilder-Steverne winner. Discussions between Schaefer and the WBC are ongoing.

Stiverne, 34, is the No. 1 contender in the WBC rankings and was scheduled to fight Klitschko for the title in August. The fight was postponed when Klitschko suffered a hand injury.

Wilder is the WBC's No. 3 contender behind Chris Arreola in the WBC's latest rankings, causing uncertainty about whether the WBC would agree to give the Stiverne-Wilder winner the title outright.

A Stiverne-Wilder bout carries more intrigue because Stiverne just beat Arreola by unanimous decision in April. Schaefer said there is the possibility for a “doubleheader,” to crown a champion; Arreola could be allowed to fight the Stiverne-Wilder winner for the belt or the less likely scenario that Wilder would get the winner of a Stivern-Arreola rematch.

“The fact is that Deontay and Arreola are both in position to fight for the heavyweight title of the world, there's no doubt about it. We'll just have to see,” Schaefer said. “I think it might be easier and more sellable from the first get-go to have Stiverne fight Wilder because they haven't fought yet.”

World title or not, a fight with Stiverne would be Wilder's biggest test to date. A win could help quiet criticism that Wilder's resume lacks a quality opponent.

“We don't really care about what people think about us or what they are saying about us,” Wilder said. “We've got a goal, we've got a plan, we're on a mission. We're going through the orders that we've got and we're keeping the plan that we have until the mission is complete.”

Schaefer believes the 28-year-old Wilder is ready for the next step.

“He has impressed me immensely. I think he really has an opportunity to become the heavyweight champion,” Schafer said. “He's terrific, he's a very charismatic guy outside of the ring, he's exactly the kind of person and personality we have been waiting (on) in the United States and hoping for to carry on the rich tradition we have for the heavyweight championship of the world.

“He is the guy I think who can do it.”

An awesome display of sportsmanship in the locker room