Eddie Hearn, promoter for IBF, IBO, WBA, WBO heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua (21-0, 20 KOs), believes WBC champion Deontay Wilder has gone bonkers by turning down several potential fight offers in the last few weeks.

Hearn claims that he offered Wilder far more money to face Derek Chisora and Dillian Whyte - than the undefeated boxer made for his March win over Luis Ortiz - and both offers were laughed off.

He also offered Wilder a guarantee of $15 million to face Joshua on an April date at Wembley in London - which was also rejected.

 

Wilder is currently in talks to fight former unified world champion Tyson Fury in November.

That contest would be by far the biggest heavyweight fight of the year and possibly the biggest event of the year.

Fury will have win, and walk away without injury, when he faces Francesco Pianeta on August 18th in Belfast. Wilder will be ringside.

But Hearn does not expect that fight to happen.

He believes their negotiations are nothing more than hype to create noise for both men- which is why Hearn is stunned that Wilder and his handlers keep rejecting his advances for a fight with Whyte or Chisora.

 “[Wilder] has lost the plot at the moment. He doesn’t know what he’s doing. He’s got a team of people around him that can’t pay him any money. We’re offering him a load of money and he thinks I’m an arsehole so he doesn’t really want to deal with me. But when he realises I’m paying him three or four times more than everybody else,” Hearn said to Boxing News.

“But now I can put it on a plate, you’ve got Dillian Whyte, you’ve got Dereck Chisora, he might look at ‘Del Boy’ and go, ‘I’ll have Del Boy.’ Imagine Wilder against Chisora at the O2.”