I'll sacrifice reward to make Joshua fight — Wilder

By Daily Sports on June 25, 2018

Deontay Wilder says he is willing to sacrifice immediate rewards in order to make a potential heavyweight unification fight against Anthony Joshua.

Joshua's promoter Eddie Hearn has sent a contract to Wilder's team with terms for a huge unification fight, but plans to stage the bout at Wembley in September appear unlikely with a deal yet to be agreed.

An initial date of September 15 has now been taken by the Saul Alvarez-Gennady Golovkin rematch and Hearn has warned that AJ will not disrupt his training regime for a fight of such magnitude.

But Wilder has questioned Joshua's willingness to face him in his next fight, with talks continuing between both camps.

"I'm a true champion. If it takes me sacrificing a small reward for a greater reward in the future – then let's do it. I did the same thing with Luis Ortiz," he told Behind The Gloves.

"I came out on top. That's the best thing I could have done in my career. The wave is crazy now for me.

"It's going to be the same thing with this Joshua. He doesn't know that.

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"We are both building our legacy, the story is going to be told. The more they run, the more they look terrified of me, the more they keep dodging me – this is going to be written in the books.

"Every opportunity that I have had was always small. I always had to make an opportunity inside of the opportunity, just like I am doing now." (Sky Sports)

Wilder

Source Daily Sports

Posted June 25, 2018


 

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