WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (38-0, 37 KO) scored a fifth round TKO over previously unbeaten Gerald Washington (18-1-1, 12 KO) on Saturday night at the Legacy Arena in Birmingham, Alabama.
It was competitive while it lasted but Wilder’s tremendous power in his right hand was the difference and handed the American his fifth successful world title defence.
Washington, who was a replacement opponent for Wilder because original challenger Andrzej Wawrzyk tested positive for a banned…