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The contract is on the table already signed by Joshua. All it needs is for Deontay to add his name and the fight goes ahead at Wembley in April, which Hearn has pre-booked in the hope that Wilder really does want the fight

There's no sign of that happening at the moment. It seems that Wilder would prefer to fight someone else (just as long as it's not Dillian Whyte or anyone else who can claim to be both a genuine contender and under the age of 35) for say $3m max rather than Joshua for $15m.

Sorry, what was that you were saying about someone being unwilling to take risks?

BigBenHo wrote: ↑27 Jul 2018, 23:50 At HW its the biggest fight since AJ-Wlad Klitchsko

Its the biggest US vs UK HW match up since Lewis vs Roidyfield

Often with American fighters they are content to stay in the US. So its rarer for a top US guy to face a top UK guy unless the UK guy is travelling.

Hearn sees this as too much risk at this point, because of Wilders power. If he switches AJ off its going to be hard for him to put those PPVs on and milk him.

It would be the bigest boxing match since Lewis-V. Klitschko, definitely.

It is the fight of this era that and fury as he still is the real champ