Comments Thread For: Anthony Joshua Fires Back at Deontay Wilder Over Questioning His Identity

[dan-b]

This is standard boxing media now: "xxx person said this, how do you respond?"

How about think up some incisive questions of your own which may draw out some new information? Are you scared your limitations as a "journalist" will be revealed?

[Teetotaler69]

I would’ve been the undisputed heavyweight world champion many years ago if I had the opportunities he was given."

Um you had an opportunity to be undisputed before fury and aj fought Wladimir but you were too much of a cherrypicking bltch.

[daggum]

I don't beleive it's better at all.

Why don't you explain why I'm wrong?

wilders beaten 2 top 10 ranked(ring) fighters his entire career and joshua has beaten 7. did you think guys like molina, washington, spilzka, duhapas were legit contenders?

[VislorTurlough]

How cute. A pissing match between 2 overrated and washed HWs

[takenotes]

Both AJ and Wilder were built on shaky foundations. Wilder pretty much was on the bum of the month tour till he fought Fury, and is 0-2-1 against him. AJ's claim to fame was beating a washed up Wlad.

[Bizmarke32]

After last weeks press conference, and seeing how uncomfortable Wilder made AJ just by sitting in the room, I am going to take anything he says on the subject with a grain of salt. He could have gotten in the ring with Wilder 5 years ago, he was the absolute shot caller in boxing for 3 years, if he wanted it, it would have happened. What's more likely now is he gets knocked out while in the midst of avoiding Wilder, and we never see the fight.

[Dare7]

Wilder is not even supposed to be talking here! Is Wilder serious?

We all know Shelly Finkel did a great job in cherry picking and Match making Wilder with easy fights even at that he nearly fumbled with fighter like Dahupas who bust Wilder face!

AJ fought Klitschko in like his Nineteenth fight whereas Wilder and Klitschko share same Manager and Klitschko called him out and Wilder turned Cricket.

He was offered big money by Matchroom and DAZN to fight AJ and he and his team declined. He fought Fury thinking it was another cherry picking but it turned out bad for him. Wilder wouldn't even fight Dillian Whyte when Whyte was his Mandatory instead he was protected by Sulaiman, Shelly Finkel and Al Haymon coz Wilder needed easy match.

AJ took big risk in less matches and got belts and big paydays plus he brought heavyweight boxing to relevance and mainstream again.

Instead of talking nonsense, Wilder should better concentrate on his match with Parker who is a tricky opponent.

[Boro]

You could've fought Wlad for undisputed years ago - you were apparently a baby even though you were 32 fights deep, a champion and both with Shirley...

Martin was with PBC you could've easily unified with him.

That didn't happen, Parker attended the Washington fight with the intention of unifying but your team didn't believe in you enough to outbid Hearn and Co as was the case with Martin...

All the current apparently "top level" heavyweights apart from Usyk are relatively similar in both amateur and pro experience, all of them lack REAL top level wins apart from maybe one good win a piece and none of them are really willing to take risks.

Truthfully it’s laughable any of them would have the audacity to critique the others.

[boxing IQ]

There's no one on AJ's resume Wilder didn't or wouldn't beat better.

Candy Ruiz was the unified champion of the world at one point. Come on, now lol.

[Spray_resistant]

Wilder should talk, bunch of dives on his record best win against a 40 year old man.