As it’s fun to troll Wilder fans, you do realize Finkel is to blame, he makes the calls and Wilder has to oblige. Haymon doesn’t have control of Wilder like Finkel.
When Finkel is 97 years old he will still say Wilder is young. General theory of relativity
I think Wilder is a slave to the white man unfortunately.
This is very typical tactics from experienced promoters/managers, behind the scenes they'll be telling Wilder this and that, "Hearn is a liar, those guys don't want the fight, etc etc"
But behind the scenes they don't want Wilder to lose yet so they are the ones sabotaging the fights, BUT and here is the smart bit, they have Wilder believing the above, convinced even, so he goes off in the media repeating this stuff.
But I think people are starting to wake up. Same tactics Arum used for years with Pac-may but tbh it's been done many times over the years to win public perception and underhandedly steer a fighter away from a potential loss.