Promoter Lou DiBella, who works with WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (39-0, 38 KOs), gives his boxer a strong chance of knocking off IBF, IBO, WBA champion Anthony Joshua (19-0, 19 KOs).
Joshua made himself the man to beat this past Saturday night, when he stopped former division ruler Wladimir Klitschko in eleven rounds.
There were 90,000 fans on hand for the record breaking show at Wembley Stadium in London.
Joshua was dropped pretty hard in the sixth round and appeared to be extremely tired. He managed to collect himself by rallying in the championship rounds to score two knockdowns of his own before stropping Klitschko in the eleventh.
DiBella believes if Klitschko was not 41-years-old, and coming off an 18 month layoff, he probably would have stopped Joshua in that round.
And he certainly feels that if Wilder lands in a similar manner on Joshua - the fight would likely be over.
"It was a tremendous show of heart by Joshua. If Klitschko was a younger Klitschko, I don't think Joshua would have survived that round. But surviving that round showed a tremendous amount of grit and really the young champion walked through the fire. Tremendous props to AJ on getting past that round. It was a great spectacle, a quality fight, it helps to revive the heavyweight division. Wilder and Joshua will simply be sensational," Dibella said to Sky Sports.
"They are two big, strong, quality heavyweights. They both present danger for one another. I think if Deontay lands flush, with the kind of punch Klitschko landed, I don't know that Joshua would get up. But at the same time, Joshua is a big, strong, quality heavyweight, and he poses his own risks.
"It's a wonderful fight. I would expect an explosive, quality fight. I don't think Joshua has quite the concussive power that Deontay has, but Joshua brings other intangibles. Down the road, I think Joshua and Wilder will be a massive fight - and Joshua-Wilder will not go the distance. I would say certainly by next year [that fight will happen]."
