Deontay Wilder wants to fight Anthony Joshua in Africa

Deontay Wilder returns to enactment connected Saturday aft a twelvemonth out

Deontay Wilder believes a bout with Anthony Joshua is inactive "the fig 1 combat successful the world" arsenic helium prepares to marque his instrumentality to enactment connected Saturday.

The heavyweight's extremity is to go satellite champion again, but Wilder besides has large plans for a bout against Britain's Joshua.

"I would emotion to bash that combat successful Africa," helium told BBC Sport.

"It's inactive the fig 1 combat successful the satellite for everyone. Everywhere I go, radical ever speech astir maine versus Joshua."

There person been respective classical heavyweight encounters successful Africa, including Muhammad Ali's combat with George Foreman successful Kinshasa successful 1974.

"We some person roots from there," Wilder explained.

"I deliberation it would beryllium an astonishing spot to person it, to spell backmost home. To spell backmost to the motherland. A continent afloat of our people. I tin conscionable spot that being an astonishing fight, win, suffer oregon draw.

"I deliberation we'll get the respect and emotion from each the radical implicit there."

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Joshua excessively 'cautious' - Wilder

Wilder earnestly considered status aft suffering successive stoppage defeats to Tyson Fury, but present says helium plans to combat for different 3 years.

Joshua and Wilder were antecedently successful talks astir an undisputed combat successful 2019 and 2020 erstwhile some men were inactive satellite champions.

Wilder held the WBC rubric portion Joshua was the WBA (Super), WBO and IBF champion.

Joshua precocious failed to scope presumption with WBC champion Fury, but Wilder is assured a woody could beryllium struck.

He said: "We're superior and we conscionable request them to beryllium superior arsenic well. We tried to marque the combat and it didn't happen. It's a caller time and time. All things are possible."

Joshua, the two-time satellite champion, volition besides soon beryllium connected the comeback way aft suffering successive defeats to unified champion Oleksandr Usyk.

Wilder believes the fights with Usyk, particularly the rematch successful August, showed Joshua has a "stamina" problem.

"I conscionable felt helium was precise cautious," Wilder said of the Watford-born fighter.

"For maine it looks similar helium has a existent superior stamina problem. I consciousness similar helium didn't privation to speech a batch due to the fact that of that.

"It allowed him to autumn backmost a small spot and not let him to propulsion definite punches and combinations. I deliberation if helium fixed that you would spot a amended Joshua, not conscionable successful that combat but fights to come.

"I cognize if he's capable to get everything together, stamina and each that, I deliberation you'll spot a antithetic Anthony Joshua."

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