Former WBC world heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (42-2-1, 41 KOs) still believes that in a rematch on August 20, Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk (19-0, 13 KOs) and Briton Anthony Joshua (24- 2, 22 KOs) the first one is more likely to succeed. He spoke about this
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The American thinks that Joshua “looks [теперь] like another person – somehow broken, “because supposedly” he could already get used to being without titles or something like that.
“But who knows? Is this just my guess? Fight on Saturday, we’ll see. I bet on Usyk, as before. He looks more confident and relaxed,” Deontay said.
A couple of days ago, the puncher said that for Usyk “it would be an easy victory.”
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Wilder will return to the ring this fall against Helenius. Recently in Britain they said that they offered him big money for the fight with Joshua.
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