“Tonight I was having a lot of fun. I had to heal, it took a long time to heal, but I’m back,” said Wilder, now 45-4-1 (43 KOs), post-fight. “I knew Derek was going to come, I knew he was going to bring everything that he had in his retirement fight. I was telling him in the ring as I started seeing his eyes and temples swell. I said, ‘Bro, you’ve got to live for your kids, I don’t want to hurt you, I got too much love.’ So I started having fun in there because I saw my brother getting hurt. That’s what boxing is all about. Too many lives have been lost in this ring. I looked after Derek tonight.”
Deontay Wilder spoils the party, defeats Derek Chisora in his swan song
