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Deontay: People are begging for Wilder-Joshua

By Daily Sports on May 13, 2017

Deontay “Bronze Bomber” Wilder (37-0, 36 KOs) says the boxing public is absolutely begging for a unification fight between him and IBF/WBA heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua (19-0, 19 KOs) to take place.

Wilder, 6’7”, says he wants to give the fans what they want to see so that he can show them who the best heavyweight is in the division. Wilder says the winner of the Wilder-Joshua fight will be the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world; although there would still be one world title out there not in Deontay’s grasp and that’s the WBO belt held by Joseph Parker.

According to Deontay, the British boxing fans go overboard when hyping their fighters. Wilder didn’t specifically point out Joshua as a fighter the Brits are going overboard about, but one gets the sense that’s exactly who he’s refereeing to.

The British fans have hyped Joshua.

As we saw in Joshua’s recent life and death struggle with 41-year-old Wladimir Klitschko, he’s not very good for someone with all the hype surrounding him from his boxing fans from England. Wladimir looked like the better fighter until the 11th round, when he got hurt by an uppercut from Joshua and quickly stopped after being dropped.

Wladimir could have knocked Joshua out earlier in the fight in the 6th or 7th rounds if he’d pressed the attack.

Wladimir’s safety first fighting style held him back, causing him to play it safe at the moment when he needed to press on ahead and finish the job.

You’d better believe that if the shoe was on the other foot and Deontay was in the same situation as Wladimir, he’d have put the coup de grace in and finished off the totally exhausted and badly hurt Joshua. Wilder likely would have laid Joshua out pretty on the canvas after smashing him with a right hand to the head.

“I’m blessed to have power that rules the division,” said Deontay to fighthype.com.

“I can’t wait to give people what they’re looking for so long. People been begging for Wilder and Joshua, especially the British fans. They over-exaggerate a lot, which is OK. I like a country that stands behind their people. I’m the only American champion. If I was fighting for another country, I’d probably own that country. That’s all going to change soon…It’s going to be crazy. I’m about to take over, man. I’m about to be the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world,” said Wilder

*Photo shows Deontay Wilder.

Source Daily Sports

Posted May 13, 2017