Deontay Wilder

CTL-E-6050 · Person · other · 1985–present

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Combined Graph record U-07273 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-6050.

Deontay Wilder, born Deontay Leshun Wilder on 22 October 1985 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, is an American professional heavyweight boxer. He began boxing at twenty to support his young family, including a daughter born with spina bifida, and within three years had won the National Golden Gloves, the United States championships and a bronze medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the result behind his Bronze Bomber nickname. Turning professional in 2008, he built a long knockout streak before defeating Bermane Stiverne in January 2015 to win the WBC heavyweight title, becoming the first American world heavyweight champion since 2007. He defended the title ten times, including a drawn first fight with Tyson Fury in 2018, before losing it to Fury in 2020 and losing their 2021 trilogy bout. After defeats by Joseph Parker and Zhilei Zhang, he returned with wins in 2025 and a split-decision victory over Derek Chisora in London in April 2026.

The record

• Also known as: Deontay Leshun Wilder, The Bronze Bomber

Notes

Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Census Intake Wave 5 — 747 Program, Wave 11; 40-record packet). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Deontay Wilder entity in the live graph at 3,763 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-6050 assigned at assembly. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 3 — Famous Birthdays ABSENT census, readiness rank 1221 (Boxers list). The census supplied the NAME ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — African American heavyweight boxer from Tuscaloosa, Alabama; Olympic bronze medalist and former WBC world champion. Vital status: LIVING — won a split decision over Derek Chisora in London on 4 Apr 2026 (Wikipedia fight record; World Boxing News) and was publicly discussing a 2026 Usyk bout in Jan 2026 (Real Combat Media / Sky Sports). STATISTICS (sourced, dated): Professional record 45-4-1, 43 KOs (Wikipedia, accessed 2026-10-16); WBC heavyweight champion 2015–2020 with ten defenses (World Boxing News). MEDIA: photo HELD (candidate: Wikimedia Commons photograph of Deontay Wilder in 2018; no file page was read at file-page level in this pass, so no image is cleared — CTL-PHOTO-001; a CTL-created graphic is the standing alternative); chart FILLED (charts/chart-temp-1221-deontay-wilder.svg); video HELD (Shorts Link Map checked by name and variants — no matching-entity CTL Short); audio HELD (no rights basis). PROVISIONAL CAP: no named-class authoritative anchor (Britannica / International Boxing Hall of Fame / The Ring / major newspaper) was secured for this record in this pass; the record rests on the WBC-approval reporting, the Wikipedia fight record and trade-press biography, following the Wave 4 Adrien Broner precedent. MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Person records carry no map slot under the media-layer rule; maps attach to places and institutions.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map catalog (checked by name and variants), and no official/em) | audio = HELD (No CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio at staging.)

Sources

• Wikipedia, 'Deontay Wilder' — Deontay Leshun Wilder, born 22 October 1985, Tuscaloosa, Alabama; WBC heavyweight champion 2015–2020, the first American world heavyweight champion since 2007; 2008 Olympic heavyweight bronze medalist; professional record 45 wins (43 KOs), 4 losses, 1 draw in 50 fights, including a split-decision win over Derek Chisora on 4 Apr 2026 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deontay_Wilder (build store)
• World Boxing News, 'Deontay Wilder News, Record and Biography' — Wilder held the WBC championship from 2015 to 2020 with ten successful defenses; Olympic bronze medalist in 2008; fight list records the Chisora win on 4 Apr 2026 and the Herndon stoppage on 27 Jun 2025 — https://www.worldboxingnews.com/deontay-wilder/?query-6f460c48-page=3 (build store)
• Real Combat Media, 'The WBC Approves Deontay Wilder as a Possible Future Opponent for Oleksandr Usyk' (20 Jan 2026), reporting Sky Sports — WBC President Mauricio Sulaiman approved Wilder, the former five-year WBC champion from Tuscaloosa, as a voluntary challenger for Usyk in 2026, and Wilder publicly discussed the bout — http://realcombatmedia.com/2026/01/the-wbc-approves-deontay-wilder-as-a-possible-future-opponent-for-oleksandr-usyk/ (primary source · build store)
• Bhamwiki, 'Deontay Wilder' — born 22 October 1985 in Tuscaloosa; the only American boxer to medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics; began training at Jay Deas's Skyy Boxing gym in Oct 2005 after his daughter Naieya was diagnosed with spina bifida — https://www.bhamwiki.com/w/Deontay_Wilder (build store)

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