WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (38-0, 37 KOs) is a man on a mission and he wants to get his hands on IBF, WBA, IBO champion Anthony Joshua (20-0, 20 KOs).
Joshua returned to the ring last Saturday night and stopped mandatory challenger Carlos Takam in ten round in Cardiff, Wales.
Wilder is back this Saturday, at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, when he takes on mandatory challenger Bermane Stiverne in a rematch. Stiverne is the only boxer to go the full twelve round distance with Wilder.
Wilder wants to fight Joshua next, but the British star's promoter - Eddie Hearn of Matchroom Sport - would rather have Wilder face Dillian Whyte on a date in February in London.
Wilder has no interest in facing Whyte - he wants Joshua. The only way he'll face Whyte is if Joshua is guaranteed in the deal and Hearn is not willing to do that.
"That’s going to be up to those guys, we are ready to go. We are ready to go any given time. I’m ready to go after this fight once my mandatory is up and over with. Why not bring us together? But they’re running a business over there in England, they’re running an operation that they don’t want to let go off just yet. They go me on the other hand, and I mess up all the plans," Wilder told On The Ropes Boxing Radio.
"I’m so dangerous, that’s why they’ve been stalling, that’s why they’re not trying to make the fight. That’s why they have been trying to add popularity and money into the situation to try to block it. Nobody cares about who has more followers on social media, who gives a f***? This is boxing, when did it get to the point where we care about that?
"It’s all excuses upon excuses, but at the end of the day, there’s going to come a time where there ain’t gonna be more excuses, they won’t have many places to run because even the UK fans are going to stop believing their own bullsh*t."
