Joshua, Wilder Agree On Two Fight Deal!

Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder will fight at this Saturday’s (Dec. 23, 2023) massive “Day of Reckoning” event in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia…just not against each other. Joshua will headline the mega-event opposite Otto Wallin, while Wilder will face the ever-dangerous knockout artist Joseph Parker in the co-headlining act.

But if all goes well and both Joshua and Wilder come out on top, the two men will finally collide in the first quarter of 2024 after they agreed on a two-fight deal for the upcoming year. That’s according to longtime boxing reporter, Dan Rafael.

“Joshua, Wilder agree to ALL terms on 2-fight deal, contracts expected to be signed ahead of their Saturday bouts on Day of Reckoing,” wrote Rafael on X.

Of course, a loss by either man could derail those plans, leaving plenty of fight fans disappointed. That’s why Wilder says he isn’t 100-percent certain that the potential big-money fight(s) between he and “A.J.” will happen.

“That’s the biggest fight in the world,” Wilder told Sky Sports via MMA Junkie. “Now the moment has come where it’s the closest that it’s ever been in history right now. The closest that it’s ever been. I’m excited to say that,” he added before saying there are still so many things that have to go right before the first fight takes place, which is tentative for March 9.

“I’m not 100 percent sure that it’s going to happen. There’s a lot of things that has gone on, a lot of things that has been done. You can’t be 100 percent until that bell rings and that first punch has been thrown,” he concluded.

A fight between Joshua and Wilder has been at the top of the list for fight fans for some time now, though peak interest reached when both men had titles. Momentum slowed a bit after Wilder lost back-to-back fights, as well as his titles, to Tyson Fury and Joshua went 0-2 against Oleksandr Usyk in consecutive fights, costing him his belts, too.

Still, the two hard-hitting big men are on a collision course, but they have to make sure they don’t look too far ahead because Wallin and Parker possess heavy hands that can ruin their nights, and their future plans.

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