London ¨C Deontay Wilder called out Anthony Joshua for a long-awaited ?matchup between the former heavyweight champions?after Wilder edged Derek Chisora to clinch a split-decision victory in London on Saturday.
Wilder came face to face with Joshua as he ?walked past the Briton after the fight. The ?two ?fist-bumped, and the American said, ¡°Let¡¯s do it.¡±
¡°It ?wasn¡¯t a few words, I dapped it up with him and I said, now let¡¯s get it ?on,¡± Wilder told reporters when asked about the exchange.
¡°I¡¯m ready for ?whoever, long as these guys are in the heavyweight division, I am here. You ?can call me Mr ?Clean, because I want to clean up the whole division. The division is ?nothing without Deontay ?Wilder.¡±
American Wilder was the WBC champion ?when Joshua held the WBA, IBF and WBO ?belts, ?but a unified heavyweight championship bout between them never materialized, as Wilder went on to lose to Tyson Fury and Joshua lost his belts to ?Oleksandr Usyk.
Undefeated Usyk went on to become the unified champion when he beat Fury in May 2024.
Joshua was last in action in December, when he knocked out Jake ?Paul.
A ?few days later, he was hospitalized following ?a car accident in Nigeria that killed two ?of his close friends.
Joshua¡¯s promoter Eddie Hearn, who was with him during the exchange with Wilder, said the fight would not be a problem for ?the Briton.
¡°He said, let¡¯s do it. AJ sort of stared at him ice cold, but he would fight him no problem,¡± Hearn told Fight Hub TV.?
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