Deontay Wilder and Anthony Joshua is the fight that everyone wants to see in the heavyweight division. Wilder, who is the WBC champion, starched Bermane Stiverne in one a few weeks back. While WBA/IBF champion Joshua is coming off a tenth-round stoppage of Carlos Takam in October.
Do we see Wilder-Joshua next?
According to Wilder, negotiations are underway for this fight, but we may have to wait a little bit:
“Man, It’s definitely getting closer,” Wilder told TMZ Sports. “My people have met their people, and they’re actually going to me again as well, too. So, it’s closer, but I don’t think they’re going to jump right away into this fight. I think they’re going to have a warm-up fight. Due to the fact that his performance was okay, and mines was like an extravagant fight.”
Wilder believes the set up for the fight could look a bunch of different ways:
“It’s different little things that going around with it. With a big fight like this, with the magnitude of a fight like this, you can play around with it a lot of different ways,” Wilder said. “What I mean by playing around with it, let’s say for instance this could be a two-fight deal. This could be one fight in America, one fight in the UK. We could have a fight where he have a warm-up fight, and I have one as well, too. If we take that approach, and we can fight on the same night.”
As he has stated before, Wilder is willing to fight Joshua anywhere:
“My belt says the heavyweight champion of the world. So, I’m willing to go anywhere, and everywhere.” Wilder said.
