Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder do not know who will be main event, but Wilder insists it should be him as he guarantees 'freaky s***' knockout
19/11/2023 14:57
Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder will share the same show on December 23, but it is not yet decided who will be the main event.
That is according to Wilder, who has made his case explaining why he should the man to take centre stage in Saudi Arabia.
AJ will face Otto Wallin, while Wilder will meet Joseph Parker, with the hope being for the event to set up a clash between the pair in 2024.
Wilder told 78SPORTSTV: “They [the Saudis] came up with it, they came up with the order and they’re going along with it.
“The only thing I’m not certain of is whether I’mma be the main event or Joshua’s gonna be the main event, we don’t know yet.
“I’ve requested them to do a flip of a coin. So we’ll see what happens.
“I feel I should be main event, I think I should be main event because of what I carry.
“People wanna see knockouts, and we know for sure, if you wanna see that, who’s the man to do it?
“Women lie, men lie, but numbers do not lie.
“With all that being said, they’ve been wanting a knockout king, they want to give their people that.
“They want a body on that canvas shaking and doing all kinds of freaky s***, so what other man to do it?
“They’ve had Anthony Joshua, Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk there and they’ve done their best, but now it’s my turn.
