Joshua’s plan was to face Wilder in the Middle East either in December or January, but due to the delay, he will be participating in an interim bout before possibly facing Wilder, an American boxer in the spring.
As reported by Mirror UK, Anthony Joshua’s long-awaited fight against Deontay Wilder has been delayed again, with the earliest potential date now set for March. Joshua’s most recent fight was in August when he defeated Robert Helenius, until it was later reported that the Finnish boxer had failed a pre-fight drug test. “He wants to; he really wants to [fight]. We’ve been on calls with him all week.
There’s a lot happening with the IBF situation. We’ll have to see. I think he’s going to fight in December or January.“I think the Wilder fight, realistically, is not going to happen until March or April, at the latest. But he wants to fight. He wants to go back to camp and asked us to try and make him fight for December;
whether that spills into January, we’ll see.” Eddie Hearn, Joshua’s promoter, told iFL TV
Also, following Tyson Fury’s foreseen undisputed match against Oleksandr Usyk, Anthony Joshua is being considered for a shot at the IBF world title if it becomes vacant and this is scheduled for December 23 in Saudi Arabia.
Joshua due to his most recent win commented, “Any time’s a good time to fight. It’s only a fight. It doesn’t matter who it is. It could’ve been Wilder eight years ago or Wilder now. It is what it is at the end of the day”.
Anthony Joshua has participated in four fights In the past three years, lost two and won two. His back-to-back defeats came in world title contests against Usyk, but he snapped back by defeating Jermaine Franklin and securing a knockout victory over Helenius.
