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By Charles Brun: Trainer Malik Scott is angry about the negotiations between his fighter Deontay Wilder and Anthony Joshua stalling out recently.
Naturally, Malik is upset with the time that the former WBC heavyweight champion Wilder (43-2-1, 42 KOs) wasted and the inactivity that he’s head. Wilder has fought only one round in the last two years since 2021, destroying his former sparring partner Robert Helenius by a first-round knockout last year in October.
Now, it looks like Joshua (26-3, 23 KOs) will fight a lower-level opponent in December and then wait on a fight with Tyson Fury in 2024.
Joshua isn’t expected to take the risky fight with Wilder for fear of wrecking his chances of getting loads of cash fighting Fury. Although AJ is filthy rich, with a net worth conservatively estimated at $80 million, he’s still quite interested in hauling in more of the abundance.
They were hoping to fight in Saudi Arabia in a big-money fight, but deal never came through. The Saudis chose to put on two of Tyson Fury’s fights against non-boxer Francis Ngannou in a crossover/celebrity match and unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk.
You can’t blame the Saudis for turning their noses up on the idea of staging the Joshua vs. Wilder fight in their country because AJ has looked faint-hearted since he was knocked out four years ago by Andy Ruiz Jr.
At this stage of his career, Joshua looks like a soldier suffering battle fatigue from having been at the front lines for too long. He’s not who he once was, and he’s NOT going to become that person again, no matter how many trainers he rifles through, trying to find himself.
