Former heavyweight titlist Deontay Wilder doesn’t expect his upcoming fight to last much longer than the one round he spent in his previous outing in the ring.

Wilder, the heavy puncher from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, is set to fight for the first time in more than a year when he takes on fellow former titlist Joseph Parker of New Zealand on Dec. 23 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on a card that will feature headliner Anthony Joshua against Otto Wallin.

Wilder, who has been angling for a fight with Joshua for the past year, is coming off a first-round knockout of Robert Helenius last year, in October, which was itself a comeback fight since he was knocked out by Tyson Fury in their trilogy in October 2021.

Despite his relative inactivity, Wilder doesn’t expect his 12-round fight with Parker to last into the late rounds.

“You already know: knockout,” Wilder said when asked how quickly he expects to dispatch Parker in an interview with ESNews. “In my head I’m looking at three or four [rounds]. In my head, I see. But you never know. In my head that’s how I got it going. But I’m not going to force anything. I’m just gonna do what I do best. And that fight is going to be a knockout.”

Wilder (43-2-1, 42 KOs) stressed that he has no animus for Parker.

The 31-year-old New Zealander has reeled off three straight wins since getting knocked out by Joe Joyce in the 11th round last year. Parker (33-3, 23 KOs) also has losses to Dillian Whyte and Joshua.

“I like Joe,” Wilder said. “I’m the type of person I don’t have to be mad at you. I don’t have to talk about you and find things to come at you about to make it interesting. I do that naturally. If I like you, I like you. If I don’t, I don’t. I’m a zero to 100 guy. I don’t have a medium. You know what I mean? I’m not a pretender. None of that sh!t. with me I’m even more dangerous like that because people can’t read me.

“I can shake my enemy’s hand. I can give my enemy a hug. I can eat at the table with my enemy to let them know that, you know, I can do those things, but know that we’re still entitled to be—when we separate that’s where we go. There’s a time and place for all things.”