“I was raised by both parents up to 17. We had a good family. We had a middle class family, good teaching and good surroundings, raised by the church, where I went every week whether I wanted to or not.”

American professional boxer

Deontay Leshun Wilder is an American professional boxer who held the World Boxing Council heavyweight title from 2015 to 2020. He is known for becoming the first American world heavyweight champion since 2007, ending the longest stretch in boxing history without an American heavyweight champion. Wilder rose to prominence through the heavyweight division and built his reputation around that title reign. His career is most closely associated with his run as WBC champion and the place it holds in American boxing history.