Former WBC Heavyweight Champion, Deontay Wilder says that lack of confidence was the undoing of Anthony Joshua in his bout against Oleksandr Usyk on Sunday.
Joshua lost for the second time to Usyk in Saudi Arabia, failing to reclaim his heavyweight titles.
Though many claim it was a better performance than his previous bout against the Ukranian, Wilder attributes his second loss to a diffident mentality Joshua showed during the bout.
“Sometimes you just look at both fighters and sometimes the eye test will tell it all.
“The body language is telling a story, the way the momentum of a fighter is telling a story, you could look at Usyk and tell how confident he was, how the tables have turned, you could tell he owned it, he feels like who he is.
“With Joshua, you could tell that he wasn’t himself, his usual self of being motivated and secure within himself.
Wilder divulged that Eddie Hearn had reached out to him with an offer, which he said proves the lack of confidence on the part of Joshua.
He said, “Eddie Hearn came to us, after everything is over with my fight, talking about offering a deal.
“My thing is we’re busy. For me, it’s easy to see what was going on. Boxing’s solely a business. It’s not a sport. It’s strictly a business.
“But he was trying to contact us for reassurance. All of a sudden you want to make a fight because even you don’t have confidence in your own fighter that he was going to win.”
Related posts
- Here are the 8 teams that made it to Champions League quarter Finals
- Gianni Infantino re- emerges as FIFA President in History Making Event.
- Guardiola opens up on who is to blame for Man City’s bad Fortune.
- Napoli Team Management to evaluate Victor Osimhen’s future
- Haaland has amazing winning mentality – Piers Morgan
