{"id":15866,"date":"2023-10-04T11:01:10","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T11:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=15866"},"modified":"2023-10-04T11:01:10","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T11:01:10","slug":"joshua-told-to-chase-titles-not-wilder-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=15866","title":{"rendered":"Joshua Told To Chase Titles Not Wilder Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Former world heavyweight champion, Anthony Joshua, has been warned against stepping into the ring against Deontay Wilder by Hall of Fame fighter Barry McGuigan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Joshua versus Wilder is one of the most intriguing match-ups in boxing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The two heavyweights seem to have finally agreed that it\u2019s the right time to face off after they both lost their titles and can no longer make a unification bout.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Speaking to Boxing King Media, former featherweight champion McGuigan said it was good that the fight had been delayed considering the threat for Joshua.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cIt\u2019s disappointing, but if I\u2019m managing Anthony Joshua I wouldn\u2019t go near Wilder. Wilder has got tremendous power. I know he\u2019s vulnerable and he\u2019s been stopped and all of that sort of stuff by Fury, he has the sort of punch that he can hit you from the back of the room and knock your head off.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWhy would you take the risk of that? I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a bad idea to avoid it, certainly at this stage. If I were him I\u2019d want to win the world title again, so either fight Fury or fight Usyk again,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Promoter Eddie Hearn tells Boxing Social that the hard-hitting American is still very much the target for his charge, even despite the task of now finding a new site. He is also still open to Joshua fighting this December against a new opponent if the fight can\u2019t be finalised soon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">As for Wilder, it looks like he\u2019ll remain inactive until he gets his hands on Joshua. Talks of a fight with Andy Ruiz Jr has fallen apart due to a dispute on the earnings for Ruiz.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former world heavyweight champion, Anthony Joshua, has been warned against stepping into the ring against Deontay Wilder by Hall of Fame fighter Barry McGuigan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15867,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2392,155,7760],"class_list":["post-15866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-anthony-joshua","tag-boxing","tag-wilder-fight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15866"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15868,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15866\/revisions\/15868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}