Deontay Wilder will have less than four months to prepare for his rematch with Tyson Fury on Feb. 22 after stopping Luis Ortiz in seven rounds Saturday.
That’s fine with the heavyweight knockout artist, who said he’ll have plenty of time.
“It’ll be a quick turnaround for me, which is no problem because when I came up in the rankings I used to fight six times a year,” Wilder said on The PBC Podcast. “(There) used to be times when I had only a week, sometimes a couple of days to prepare for a fighter.”
He went on: “I never get out of shape, I’m always in shape. This actually is going to help me even more. I’m getting right back in there. I’ll probably be out of the ring half of month, if that. I have a couple of obligations to fulfill. After that, I’ll go right back to camp.”
Wilder said he’d open camp for the Fury rematch at the end of December, “no later than the first week of January.”
Wilder once fought twice in nine days, his second and third fights. The 13 weeks between the Ortiz and Fury rematches will be the shortest period time between fights during his title reign.