Pictured: #3 ranked heavyweight contender and organizational heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder


On Saturday, January 16, two fighters ranked by the participating members of TTR as being among the top ten heavyweight contenders in the world vied for organizational world titles. #3 ranked Deontay Wilder retained the WBC title while #8 ranked Vyacheslav Glazkov, fighting for the vacant IBF title, suffered a knee injury and was unable to continue.

Brooklyn, New York, USA-

Vacant IBF World Heavyweight Title-
"Prince" Charles Martin (WBO #1, IBF #3; 23-0-1, 21 KOs)
TKO-3 1:50
Vyacheslav "The Czar" Glazkov (IBF #1, WBO #5, The Ring #7, TTR #8, Transnational #8; 21-1-1, 13 KOs)
- Glazkov injured his right knee and could not continue.

WBC World Heavyweight Title-
Champion Deontay Wilder (TTR #3, Transnational #3, The Ring #3; 36-0, 35 KOs)
KO-9 2:24
Artur Szpilka (WBC #6, WBO #12; 20-2, 15 KOs)
- The end came suddenly when Wilder landed a devastating right hand.