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Showtime Boxing: Watch WBC champ Deontay Wilder's open workout heading into title fight

Deontay Wilder and Artur Szpilka, along with five other fighters, held a press workout to show off their speed and power before Brooklyn's first heavyweight title fight in 115 years this weekend.

On Saturday, January 16 at The Barclays Center, WBC Heavyweight World Champion Deontay Wilder will make the third defense of his title against Polish bruiser Artur Szpilka while unbeaten heavyweights Charles Martin and Vyacheslav Glazkov battle for the vacant IBF Heavyweight World Championship, the first two heavyweight world title fights in Brooklyn in 115 years. Showtime held a workout for the press at the world famous Gleason's Gym that featured the main event fighters along with a few folks from the undercard to help promote the event.