{"id":3107,"date":"2022-10-12T13:54:38","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T12:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/?p=3107"},"modified":"2022-10-12T13:54:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T12:54:38","slug":"wilder-wants-to-fight-joshua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wilder-wants-to-fight-joshua\/boxing\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilder Wants to fight Joshua?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Over the past year, Deontay Wilder has been off the radar in boxing after losing his WBC World Heavyweight Championship against Tyson Fury. There was a massive chance that Wilder was going to retire as he wasn&#8217;t wanting and or knew if he was returning, however he has a comeback fight coming up and he has already stated that he wants to fight one massive heavyweight!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wilder is set to fight Robert Helenius in New York for his comeback fight. After losing to Fury, Wilder has a lot to prove in this fight.<\/p>\n<p>The heavyweight has already set his goal on another massive fighter in the heavyweight division, as he wants to fight him after this fight.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I would love to do that fight in Africa, it&#8217;s still the number one fight in the world for everyone. Everywhere I go, people always talk about me versus Joshua.&#8221; said Wilder to the BBC.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Joshua is on Wilder&#8217;s hit list at the minute. These two were meant to fight for all the titles, however all talks went down and now none of them have the titles anymore.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3108\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3108\" class=\"wp-image-3108 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/10\/shutterstock_1192624117.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/10\/shutterstock_1192624117.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/10\/shutterstock_1192624117-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3108\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Credit: <a class=\"jss1565 jss44 jss46 jss45\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/g\/VASYL+LEIBIUK\">V-LEIBIUK<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We both have roots from there, <span data-reactid=\".6gwu3h4vse.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-8.0\">I think it would be an amazing place to have it, to go back home. To go back to the motherland. A continent full of our people. I can just see that being an amazing fight, win, lose or draw.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".6gwu3h4vse.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-9\"><span data-reactid=\".6gwu3h4vse.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-9.0\">&#8220;I think we&#8217;ll get the respect and love from all the people over there.&#8221; Wilder continued to explain.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-reactid=\".6gwu3h4vse.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-9\">Will this be the fight everyone wants?<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".6gwu3h4vse.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-9\"><em><strong>Banner and Image Credit: <a class=\"jss269 jss44 jss46 jss45\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/g\/rangizzz\">rangizzz<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past year, Deontay Wilder has been off the radar in boxing after losing his WBC World Heavyweight Championship against Tyson Fury. There was a massive chance that Wilder was going to retire as he wasn&#8217;t wanting and or knew if he was returning, however he has a comeback fight coming up and he&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":3109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[1664],"class_list":["post-3107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boxing","tag-heavyweight-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3110,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3107\/revisions\/3110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}