Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua disagree as Deontay Wilder 'prepares announcement'
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Deontay Wilder is reportedly planning a major return to boxing - a move that Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua disagree on. At 39, the Bronze Bomber holds a remarkable record of 43-4-1 in the squared circle, having clinched the WBC heavyweight crown in 2015, and defended it 10 times before ultimately relinquishing it to the Gypsy King. The two men initially met in December 2018, with Wilder defending his WBC belt via an incredibly tight split draw, before coming to blows again in February 2020.
This time, Fury saw his hand raised via a seventh-round TKO to take the title from Wilder before an eleventh-round knockout in their trilogy fight the following year in Fury's favour diminished any hopes of the American putting himself in the championship picture. Wilder was once one of the world's most feared heavyweights, but he now finds himself on a two-fight skid in 2025, which has left Fury calling for his retirement.
Wilder suffered a unanimous decision loss to Joseph Parker in December 2023 at Riyadh's Kingdom Arena before finding himself on the receiving end of a fifth-round TKO at the hands of Zhilei Zhang last June at the same venue. As a result of his back-to-back losses, Fury told the Pound 4 Pound podcast: "Being truthful, I'd like to see poor old Deontay retire from boxing.
"Obviously, he lost the three fights to me. We took a lot of years off of each other's lives. That war that ended in the 11th round by knockout, that takes a lot out your tank and you don't recover from fights like that. Between me and Wilder in our trilogy there were 10 knockdowns. It takes a lot out of a fighter.
