{"id":30147,"date":"2019-09-06T11:37:35","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T10:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=30147"},"modified":"2019-09-06T11:37:35","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T10:37:35","slug":"youngster-sends-video-message-to-heavyweight-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/06\/youngster-sends-video-message-to-heavyweight-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"Youngster Sends Video Message to Heavyweight Champion"},"content":{"rendered":"

A youngster from Leicester sent out a message on video to heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder challenging him to a fight.<\/p>\n

Zaiden Seedat, Five-years-old was not expecting any sort of response.<\/p>\n

Zaiden in his video message says, “When I grow up, I’m going to knock Wilder out.”<\/p>\n

Wilder also known as ‘The Bronze Bomber’ has held the World Boxing Council (WBC) heavyweight title for the past four years.<\/p>\n

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Shoaib and wife Suaad have been taking their son for private boxing lessons\u00a0since he was four years old.<\/p>\n

“He has always liked training, I don’t know where he gets it from – he would just go in the other room and start exercising,” said Shoaib.<\/p>\n

Then, through family and friends, Shoaib was given the opportunity to meet Wilder, whom he described as “a really humble guy”, during a visit to the UK.<\/p>\n

He said. “I remembered my son’s video so I showed him, and he recorded one back.”<\/p>\n

The champ from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, looked into the camera and said: “Hey Zaiden, if you ever think about knocking me out you better wake up, you’re dreaming.<\/p>\n

He went on to say: “Keep speaking, believing and receiving – I’ll see you at the time baby.”<\/p>\n

Shoaib shared the video with his son the next morning.<\/p>\n

“He was so happy, at first he tried to talk back because he thought it was a Facetime call,” he said.<\/p>\n

Deontay Wilder fought Tyson Fury in December, resulting in a draw. A rematch will take place in 2020.<\/p>\n

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A youngster from Leicester sent out a message on video to heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder challenging him to a fight. Zaiden Seedat, Five-years-old was not expecting any sort of response. Zaiden in his video message says, “When I grow up, I’m going to knock Wilder out.” Wilder also known as ‘The Bronze Bomber’ has held […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,3,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}