{"id":302920,"date":"2023-12-19T23:25:40","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T23:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/?p=302920"},"modified":"2023-12-19T23:25:40","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T23:25:40","slug":"deontay-wilder-reveals-his-favourite-boxing-memory-to-mail-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/boxing\/deontay-wilder-reveals-his-favourite-boxing-memory-to-mail-sport\/","title":{"rendered":"Deontay Wilder reveals his favourite boxing memory to Mail Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1> Deontay Wilder reveals his favourite boxing memory &#8211; and why it ISN&#8217;T anything inside the ring, as he hails impact of his eldest daughter\u00a0Naieya, who was born with spina bifida, ahead of Saudi &#8216;Day of Reckoning&#8217;<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Deontay Wilder stopped to chat to Mail Sport on the red carpet in Riyadh\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>He had a very specific answer when asked for his favourite memory in boxing\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Deontay Wilder will keep Anthony Joshua super-fight ON by beating Joseph Parker &#8211; The Hook\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Deontay Wilder&#8217;s favourite memory in boxing is not any of the mega-punches thrown or the belts he has gone on to put round his waist.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the Bronze Bomber&#8217;s most prized memory since being in the sport is a conversation he had with his eldest daughter Naieya when she was just one years old.<\/p>\n<p>Naieya was born with a condition called spina bifida &#8211; it is a disorder whereby kids have holes in their spine &#8211; and her doctors had said she would never walk in her life.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Knowing the difficult road ahead for the entire family, Wilder made a promise to his daughter that he would make sure she always had everything she needed, and to do that he would become a world champion in boxing.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I looked at her, because at that time in my life I didn&#8217;t know what was going to go on, what direction my life would take, because I wanted to be a professional athlete and football (American Football) and basketball was my thing because of the city that I come from,&#8217; Wilder told <span>Mail Sport <\/span>from Saudi Arabia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/19\/22\/79149321-12883211-image-a-18_1703025519655.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Deontay Wilder&#8217;s message to his daughter\u00a0Naieya (pictured with her dad in 2015) when she was only one years old is the Bronze Bomber&#8217;s favourite memory since taking up boxing<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CBtDjHQjYyv\/<\/p>\n<p>A post shared by Naieya Wilder\ud83d\udc8d\ud83d\udc51\u2764\ufe0f (@slayyy_queen_naenae15)<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I never thought about boxing in my life to participate in.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;But when the opportunity came about and I saw a way to provide for my family, especially my daughter at that moment in time, I looked her in her eyes and I said, &#8220;Daddy will be a world champion and I&#8217;ll be able to support you beyond belief&#8221; and I did it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I come from a world of unfulfilled promises. When someone promises they will do something and they don&#8217;t do it&#8230; I&#8217;m 37 years old and some of these promises I&#8217;m still waiting on!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/19\/22\/79149331-12883211-image-a-19_1703025528951.jpg\" height=\"483\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Wilder was quizzed on his most special memory in boxing when speaking to Mail Sport\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;When I say something to my children it&#8217;s that &#8220;Daddy means what he says&#8221;. Sometimes things happen in life whereby you can&#8217;t get to it at that moment in time, but they know that I can rewind at some time, go back and say &#8220;you ready?&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The memory I will always cherish dear to my heart is promising my daughter that I would be world champion.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Despite the bleak initial diagnosis, his eldest daughter has learned how to walk and can even cartwheel having undergone extensive surgery in her younger years.<\/p>\n<p>She is now 15 years old.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2023\/10\/25\/The%20Hook_Promo_Desktop.636.png\"><\/p>\n<p>Wilder will want to once again make her and her siblings proud when he takes to the ring this weekend against Joseph Parker.<\/p>\n<p>Wilder is not caught up with pre-fight superstititions, but he is confident he can hold up his end of the bargain and win in order to bring a super fight with Anthony Joshua, who is fighting on the same card this weekend, a step closer.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span><span>&#8216;Day of Reckoning&#8217;, Saturday 23rd December, as part of <\/span><\/span><span><span>Riyadh Season will be available live on DAZN and TNT Sports Box Office. <\/span><\/span><span><span>For info on how to watch visit <\/span><\/span><span><span>www.dayofreckoning.co.uk<\/span><\/span><span><span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/article-12883211\/Deontay-Wilder-reveals-favourite-boxing-memory-hails-impact-daughter-Naieya.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deontay Wilder reveals his favourite boxing memory &#8211; 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