Joshua 2/9 favourite with odds of 4/9 for Wilder to be KO’d

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Fight tipped to take place next summer – Joshua 2/9 favourite with odds of 4/9 for Wilder to be KO’d
– AJ favourite to win SPOTY 2017 award (2/9)

With Eddie Hearn claiming that a fight between Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder is a certainty in 2018, the excitement is building for a meeting between the American WBC Heavyweight champion and the man he branded a “little girl” this week.

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Joshua tells Fury to lose some weight

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By Juan Flores: In a series of Tweets on Thursday, heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua turned into a Mr. Hyde type character in trashing Tyson Fury and Joseph Parker on social media. Joshua (20-0, 20 KOs) told Fury to lose some weight in not so kind words. It also seems like it was someone else in charge of Joshua’s Twitter account, because he’s never shown this side to his personality.

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Hearn says Joshua-Wilder negotiations could be difficult

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By Scott Gilfoid: Promoter Eddie Hearn wants Deontay Wilder and his team to stay away from fantasy numbers when it comes time for them to begin negotiations for the Anthony Joshua fight today. Hearn doesn’t want to miss putting the Wilder-Joshua fight together by Wilder’s side pricing themselves out for the fight.

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Joshua’s promoter asks people on streets of NY if they know Wilder

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By Jeff Aranow: In an experiment to test how popular heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder is to the average American, Eddie Hearn, the promoter for IBF/WBA heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua, asked a couple of pedestrians on the street of New York if they’d ever heard of Wilder. Not surprisingly, the pedestrians said they don’t know who Wilder is.

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Joshua vs. Wilder negotiations begin this week

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By Juan Flores: IBF/WBA heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn confirms that he’ll be meeting this week with WBC heavyweight champion Deontay “Bronze Bomber’ Wilder’s advisers Al Haymon and Shelly Finkel to plan a unification fight for 2018.

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Stiverne says he’s coming back, 100% dedicated

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By Sean Jones: Former WBC heavyweight champion Bermane “B-Ware” has made it official that he’ll be going back to the drawing board and coming back with 100% commitment following his 1st round knockout loss to WBC heavyweight champion Deontay “Bronze Bomber” Wilder (39-0, 38 KOs) last Saturday night at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.

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Hearn: We’ll have to pay Deontay Wilder more than he’s worth

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By Scott Gilfoid: WBC heavyweight champion Deontay “Bronze Bomber” Wilder doesn’t bring much value to a fight against IBF/WBA champion Anthony Joshua, according to promoter Eddie Hearn. He says there’s no comparison between the two heavyweights as far as commercial value goes. As such, Hearn says that they’ll have to pay Wilder far more than his worth for him to accept a unification fight against Joshua.

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