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Anthony Joshua vs Deontay Wilder given new hope as details of agreement emerge: ‘Everyone wants to fight him’

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Deontay Wilder could still fight Anthony Joshua if he gets his career back on track.

That’s according to Joshua’s promoter, Eddie Hearn, who says it’s realistically all or nothing for Wilder now.

Wilder has the chance to revive his career when he faces Tyrrell Herndon in Kansas next month.

‘The Bronze Bomber’ has looked a shadow of his former hardest-hitting self in the ring recently.

He has lost four of his last fights and was shocking stopped by Chinese powerhouse Zhilei Zhang in June last year.

This came six months after he suffered a unanimous decision defeat to Joseph Parker, which derailed a blockbuster meeting with ‘AJ’.

Speaking to FightHype.com, Hearn confirmed that Wilder had signed to fight Joshua at the time and an announcement was imminent, until the former lost to Parker.

Hearn believes that Wilder has now lost his fear factor in the squared circle, but revealed that a fight with Joshua could still happen down the line.

“If [Wilder] keeps winning, maybe people can talk about that fight,” he said.

“It’s definitely not a fight that I rule out, but people don’t give Wilder much shot against AJ right now, but hopefully he can start looking good again.

“Again, we talk about fighters losing their way. There’s a great example.

“It’s funny how people can be so fearful of a fighter, and then all of a sudden have no fear whatsoever.

“I don’t think anybody now would fear fighting Deontay Wilder, whereas at a point, everyone thought: ‘Oh my God, this guy is the biggest puncher in the history of the sport.’

“Now, everyone wants to fight him, so we shall see.”

Hearn also mentioned that Joshua’s last defeat in the ring makes the fight with Wilder more likely to happen if ‘The Bronze Bomber’ gets some wins back.

AJ’s heavyweight title dreams collapsed after he was shockingly knocked out by Daniel Dubois at Wembley Stadium in September.

Dubois now faces Oleksandr Usyk in the same venue in July for the chance to become the first British undisputed heavyweight champion since Lennox Lewis.

Wilder, meanwhile, has faced widespread criticism since his defeat to Zhang, with many boxing enthusiasts calling for his retirement.

“This fight isn’t going to tell us much, apart from [Wilder] gaining the confidence of a win,” Hearn concluded.

“If he struggles against this guy he has to pack it in, but I expect him to win, and hopefully he can win well.”

Nevertheless, ‘The Bronze Bomber’ has decided to make a return, as he faces fellow American Herndon, who is 24-5 in professional boxing and a huge underdog for the bout.

It feels like the last chance for Wilder who is 39 years old now and in desperate need of a victory in June.

However, for Herndon, it is an opportunity that he has always dreamt of, and he doesn’t want to just let it slip by.

“It is something I visualised would happen,” the 37-year-old from Texas told talkSPORT.com in April ahead of his clash with Wilder.

“I’ve replayed this scenario in my mind a thousand times, so when it does happen, I’ve already been there.

“Critics told me I was crazy for doing that, [but] I’ve already been there a thousand times already, so when I get in there with him I think it will be natural.

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“A week before I got the call, it was my tenth year as a pro, I was on my way to the gym but I turned around.

“I just said ‘today isn’t one of my days’. I’d been doing this ten years, but what did I have to show for it?

“Then my manager rang and I thought it might be Dillian Whyte, as that fight didn’t materialise before.

“But then he said Deontay Wilder and I replied ‘get the f*** out of here.’ I couldn’t believe it.

“It reminded me that any time can be my moment, and it means more than anyone would know.”

Herndon will have all the odds stacked against him at the Charles Koch Arena in Kansas when he takes part in the biggest fight of his career.

Wilder, meanwhile, will hope the fight can propel him back into contention for one more huge payday in the ring against a name like AJ or Francis Ngannou.

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I Hate Dillian Whyte – Joshua

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Former world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua has revealed that Dillian Whyte remains one boxer that he has so much hatred for.

Both men have been embroiled in a bitter feud for several years, stemming back to their vested days. Whyte beat AJ on points in an amateur bout in 2009, forming the basis for a fierce rivalry.

When they rematched as professionals six years later, all hell broke loose in the ring at the end of the opening stanza when both men landed shots way after the bell.

However, reflecting on the past incident, years after their sequel, Joshua admitted to hating Whyte during a candid press scrum interview.

“I just hate Dillian,” said Joshua. “The same way he writes it off, I write off [that fight with Dillian].

“That wasn’t me performing; that was just me and Dillian having a street fight, so that wasn’t a boxing match; we just wanted to fight.

“That was like South vs. North; we don’t get love like that.”

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Anthony Joshua Could Tempt Tyson Fury Out of Retirement – Boxing

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Anthony Joshua Could Tempt Tyson Fury Out of Retirement – Boxing Coach Claims

Deontay Wilder’s coach, Malik Scott, believes Anthony Joshua is the one fighter who could bring Tyson Fury back from retirement.

Fury announced his retirement from boxing in December after losing for the second time to Oleksandr Usyk. But many are not convinced he’s done for good, as the former WBC heavyweight champion has made similar announcements in the past, only to return to the ring.

If Fury really stays retired this time, the long-awaited all-British showdown with Joshua may never happen.

Speaking to The Stomping Ground, Scott said now is the perfect moment to finally make the fight between Fury and Joshua happen.

“He’s retired how many times now? If he’s going to come back and fight, I personally believe it will be against AJ,” Scott said. “I believe this is the time.”

Scott made the comments while preparing to be in the corner for Ezra Taylor’s light heavyweight fight against Troy Jones on Saturday night.

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Bob Arum Sends Fans Warning On Canelo vs Terence Crawford Fight: “He’s

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Bob Arum Sends Fans Warning On Canelo vs Terence Crawford Fight: “He’s Shown What He Is”

Canelo Alvarez and Terence Crawford will face each other in a monumental showdown this September.

The pound-for-pound greats will lock horns on Saturday September 13 at an unconfirmed location in the USA, although Las Vegas is said to be the likely destination for the mega-fight.

Alvarez will defend his undisputed super-middleweight championship against ‘Bud’, who is bidding to make history by becoming the first fighter in male boxing history to achieve undisputed status in three weight divisions.

Legendary promoter Bob Arum has weighed in on the upcoming showdown between Canelo and Crawford, which has been described by many as the ‘biggest fight in boxing’.

Speaking to Fight Hub TV, Arum brandishes Canelo as a ‘businessman’ and criticises his recent performances, as he pays homage to ‘Bud’ Crawford for his ability to ‘turn up and fight.’

“Canelo has shown in his last few fights that he’s just a businessman, he’s not in there to entertain the public, he just takes the big check. But again, if Canelo really fights, because I think it’s safe to say Terence always fights he doesn’t know anything else, so then it could be a very good interesting fight.”

Arum then warned the fans that the evidence may suggest a less than entertaining spectacle.

“Who is Canelo? What Canelo is gonna show up? The one who’s looking to cash a big check or the one that really wants to fight like a fighter? Now the Canelo we’ve seen the last two years is not only boring, but doesn’t really have an incentive to mix it up and entertain people with a good fight.”

Riyadh Season’s Turki Alalshikh has announced that Sela will now be the promoter of the intriguing battle between the modern greats, with an official location for the fight set to be revealed in the coming weeks.

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Manny Pacquiao Reveals The One Opponent Who Gave Him His

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Manny Pacquiao Reveals The One Opponent Who Gave Him His Hardest Fight

Manny Pacquiao has revealed the one opponent who gave him his toughest fight in boxing, and he shunned Floyd Mayweather — one of his career rivals — when providing his answer.

The Filipino fighting icon rampaged his way through multiple weight classes, sharing the ring with a plethora of all-time great boxers, to put a stamp on a Hall-of-Fame resume. The International Boxing Hall of Fame, of which GIVEMESPORT’s combat editor and reporter Alan Dawson is a voting member, enshrines Pacquiao into its hall this summer, around the same time he’ll return to the ring, aged 46, to attempt to wrest the WBC welterweight world championship from Mario Barrios’s waist.

Manny Pacquiao & Mario Barrios’ professional boxing records (as of 22/05/25)
Manny Pacquiao Mario Barrios
Fights 72 32
Wins 62 29
Losses 8 2
Draws 2 1

Had Pacquiao fought Barrios in his prime, he would have no doubt dispatched of him with ease, having beaten the likes of Erik Morales, Juan Manual Marquez, Marco Antonio Barrera, Oscar de la Hoya, and Ricky Hatton, among others. But, as Pacquiao said this week, there is one fighter in particular who he believes gave him all kinds of hell.

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Hall-of-Fame fighter reveals trickets opponent he fought

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Describing his ability to box as “a gift from God,” Pacquiao told reporters, including Elie Seckbach and Fight Hype, when training in Los Angeles, that “the bigger one,” meaning Antonio Margarito, was his hardest fight.

Renowned for an aggressive, pressure-style of fighting, and his durability, Margarito had beaten Joshua Clottey and Miguel Cotto leading up to his fight with Pacquiao.

Picking Margarito as his toughest test is perhaps a surprising pick considering his wars with numerous Mexican legends, and trying to figure out the technical prowess of Mayweather, yet Margarito, at 5-foot-11 and being so much bigger than Pacquiao as a junior middleweight, meant Manny had to negate his opponent’s size.

There was also an added mental test, as Pacquiao was incensed at the time by Margarito’s apparent mocking of Pacquiao’s beloved long-time trainer Freddie Roach, who has Parkinson’s disease. Margarito was seen on video impersonating Roach by shaking his hands while he had a crick in his neck. This never sat well with Pacquiao, who inflicted a brutal beating of Margarito in the ring, and injured his eye so badly that it took a long while to recover from the damage.

That was almost 15 years ago. Pacquiao returns to the ring in July against Barrios atop a PBC on Prime Video PPV event at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.

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Roy Jones Jr Picks A Winner In Anthony Joshua vs Tyson Fury Fight:

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Roy Jones Jr Picks A Winner In Anthony Joshua vs Tyson Fury Fight: “We Know What Happens”

There is still plenty of hope that Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury may fight before the ultimate end of their careers and Roy Jones Jr has been making his prediction.

Joshua is currently out with an elbow injury and was set for minor surgery in May but will be back later this year. Fury retired in January off the back of his second consecutive defeat to Oleksandr Usyk, but has been seen back in the gym lately.

It is hoped these two giants of world boxing will be able to arrange a showdown before they fully walk away from the sport, even if it is for legacy rather than any world title belts.

Speaking to iFL TV, former pound-for-pound king Jones Jr was asked who would prevail if they were to fight today.

“I like both guys so it’s hard for me to say, but because of their past experiences and what I’ve seen, I would probably give Fury the edge.

“Looking at his two fights with Usyk and Joshua’s two fights with Usyk, I think he made better adjustments against Usyk than Joshua did, so I would probably give him the edge on the fact that he knows how to make adjustments, but ‘AJ’ has that neutraliser.

“If ‘AJ’ hits him clean, then we know what happens, so I would say 50-50 but I just give Fury the edge.”

If Fury does not come out of retirement and negotiate a fight with Joshua, ‘AJ’ could instead go into an equally intriguing contest with Deontay Wilder, who makes his return to the ring for the first time in a year next month against Tyrrell Herndon.

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Accomplished Claressa Shields won’t stop until she reaches Serena Williams’ heights

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Claressa Shields may be a Michigan native who lives in Atlanta, but she still seems right at home in Brooklyn.

It only seems natural that “The GWOAT” would fit right in at Gleason’s Gym, which 42 years earlier was the first gym in New York City to open its doors to women, and has produced numerous female champions. Shields, the women’s undisputed heavyweight champion, is beginning her training camp there, and she has plenty of familiar faces surrounding her.

There is Heather Hardy, the former WBO featherweight champion who trains clients at the iconic gym underneath the Manhattan Bridge. Shields, an Olympic gold medalist at the 2012 and 2016 Games, describes Hardy as “one of my idols”, saying she first had hope that she could make a living as a professional when she saw Hardy fighting on television. There’s Ronica Jeffrey, the former title challenger who last fought in 2019, and who shared a friendly conversation with Shields as the two shadowboxed together during Tuesday’s media workout.

There’s also Don Saxby, her new assistant trainer, whom she first became acquainted with after being introduced through one of Saxby’s other clients – and also her boyfriend – the rapper Papoose. Saxby will be working alongside Shields’ long-time trainer John David Jackson for the second straight fight.

“Who don’t love Gleason’s?” said Shields, 16-0 (3 KOs). “It’s a gym that got great energy and great people. Every world champion has been inside of here. I’m talking about Zab Judah; Floyd [Mayweather]; Muhammad Ali; Heather Hardy.”

Shields’ next assignment will bring her back to the midwest, when she faces New Zealand’s Lani Daniels, 11-2-2 (1 KO), on July 26 at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit. The 36-year-old Daniels, who is in her second reign as IBF light-heavyweight champion, was not Shields’ first choice for an opponent. She says Hannah Gabriels, the only woman to knock her down in a fight, turned her down when offered a rematch. “We shot high and then went to second best,” said Shields. Still, she understands the danger of her opponent.

“I think anybody that has self-belief is very powerful,” said Shields of Daniels, who is fighting outside of New Zealand for the first time. “She believes in herself. She hasn’t lost in two years; she lost early in her career and now she’s been undefeated. When you get into your undefeated era, you’re really hard to beat. I think I’m gonna have to dig a little deeper to break her mentally and then break her down physically.”

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Claressa Shields: ‘To Me, This Is My Biggest Fight’

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BROOKLYN (MAY 20, 2025) – Ahead of her monumental homecoming, the GWOAT, Claressa Shields (16-0, 3 KOs), participated in an open media workout in Brooklyn at the esteemed Gleason’s Gym. Shields will return home on Saturday, July 26, when she puts her Undisputed Heavyweight World Championship on the line in the main event at Little Caesars Arena against the reigning IBF Light Heavyweight World Champion from New Zealand, Lani Daniels (11-2-2, 1 KO).

Shields vs. Daniels will air live on the global home of boxing, DAZN. Shields, the most decorated female boxer in history, made headlines earlier this year by becoming the first woman ever to claim the Undisputed Heavyweight World Championship—and the first boxer, male or female, to achieve undisputed status in three weight divisions.

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“I am super excited to be fighting against another world champion in Lani Daniels. She’s very confident, she’s from New Zealand, she wants the smoke, and she and her team are confident that they can come over here and get the upset. “

“I’m always happy to fight at Little Ceasars Arena. My team and I are working to make sure we sell this thing out – all 19,000 seats. Last time I was able to do 12,000 with just me doing my hard work, and now I have a team behind me that wants to do it. I look forward to fighting at LCA and putting on a great show. To me, this is my biggest fight.”

“I don’t know how good Lani Daniels is. I’ve seen film, and she’s pretty durable. She’s very, very tough. But after my last fight with Danielle Perkins, I know that I’m the toughest of them all. If I was able to fight Danielle Perkins and drop her in the 10th round … she may not have looked like she was a lot because I’m so great, but Danielle Perkins is highly avoided for a reason. And Lani Daniels didn’t want to fight her for a reason. I stepped up and fought against a bigger and stronger woman who had just as much experience as me, and we put on a great show.”

“I’m super excited to fight in Detroit. A woman boxer being able to fight in front of 12,000 people is great, but 19,000 is even better. I have continued to grow in my stardom and bring more things to women’s boxing than I ever thought that I could. To me, this is my biggest fight.”

I’m working on everything. I’m working on making sure I turn my punches over. I’m gonna hit Lani very, very hard to her face, to her chest and to her body. I’m working on breaking somebody mentally more than I am working on breaking them physically. Inside the ring, it’s still a mental fight, and I can’t wait to see how tough she is. She seems like she’s very tough, hearing her backstory and everything that she’s been through. But I know that I can do it.”

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Even Mike Tyson Isn’t Safe Anymore as Boxing Legend Falls Prey to Viral AI Trend

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Remember when Mike Tyson knocked out Lou Savarese, just 38 seconds into their fight in June 2000? Those who have been following the sport for a long time would know. The duo met at Hampden Park in Glasgow, Scotland. However, the fight was memorable for another reason than the knockout.

Promoted by Frank Warren, it aired on Showtime via tape delay, called a deferred live. Iron Mike was returning to the ring after a four-month prison sentence in a 10-round heavyweight bout. Just 12 seconds into the first round, Mike Tyson landed a powerful leaping left hook, his first, knocking his opponent down. What followed was not a great-to-watch scene. Once Savarese got up, Tyson went in for the kill. However, after a few vicious combinations from Iron Mike, referee John Coyle intervened to call off the bout. He tried to stop Tyson from the punching frenzy at 26 seconds, albeit in a failed attempt. Nevertheless, when Coyle jumped in to stop the bout, Savarese was still standing and ready to go. The referee, despite the protests from Savarese and his corner, gave the win to Tyson, which left the crowd booing at the anti-climactic nature of the finish. A crowd of 30,000 people left the venue disappointed over such a brief fight. But the best part was yet to come.

In the post-fight interview with Jim Gray of Showtime, the Brooklyn native, in his most famous callouts ever, unleashed his inner beast to send out a challenge to the undisputed heavyweight champion at the time, Lennox Lewis. But a few days ago, @dopimuzik, an Instagram page that posts AI-generated baby videos of celebrities speaking their iconic lines, did so for this crazy speech from Mike Tyson. An AI-generated baby Mike Tyson delivers the terrifying speech while the original voice from the interview runs in the background. “I was going to rip his heart out, I’m the best ever,” the 58-year-old had said to Gray.

Continuing the blood-driven outrage, what continued was scary and memorable at the same time. “I’m the most brutal and vicious, the most ruthless champion there has ever been. No one can stop me. Lennox is a conqueror? No! He’s no Alexander! I’m Alexander! I’m the best ever. I’m Sonny Liston. I’m Jack Dempsey. There’s never been anyone like me. I’m from their cloth. There is no one who can match me. My style is impetuous, my defense is impregnable, and I’m just ferocious. I want your heart! I want to eat his children!” declares the baby Mike Tyson in the hilarious clip.

This entire audio was stamped behind a cute-looking AI-generated video of a toddler Tyson, who even had a face tattoo mimicking the boxer’s famous face tattoo. Sharing the reel in his Instagram story, Kid Dynamite just wrote “Baby Tyson 🤣,” laughing over it. However, not all AI-driven content surrounding Tyson has been lighthearted.

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Just days ago, a polished poster for a supposed Mike Tyson biopic began circulating on social media, shared by several verified boxing outlets. The poster touted a 2026 release, starring Jamie Foxx as Tyson, Samuel L. Jackson as Don King, and Martin Scorsese as director. Fans, initially thrilled, were disappointed to learn the poster was fake. No official confirmation came from Netflix, Foxx, or Scorsese, and the project appeared to be a fabrication, likely AI-generated.

The confusion was compounded by Foxx’s involvement in another boxing-related project, Fight for ’84, a Netflix film about a coach rebuilding the 1984 US Olympic Boxing team after a tragic plane crash killed the original squad.

Regardless, this incident underscores the growing challenge of distinguishing fact from fiction in the age of AI, where convincing fakes can spread rapidly, even fooling credible sources. From humorous baby Tyson videos to misleading biopic posters, AI’s influence is undeniable. While it can entertain and spark creativity, it also poses risks, as false information can gain traction with alarming ease.

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Claressa Shields says she’s done with MMA: ‘It was fun, but it was too hard’

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Don’t expect to see boxing star Claressa Shields in the cage again.

Two-time Olympic gold medalist and three-division boxing champion Shields announced that she is officially retired from MMA after just three fights in which she went 2-1. Her most recent appearance came in February 2024 when she scored a split decision win over Kelsey DeSantis at PFL vs. Bellator: Champions at Kingdom Arena in Saudi Arabia.

“MMA is done, sweetheart,” Shields said on “The Ariel Helwani Show.” “It was fun, but I don’t have enough time to train for it. It takes six to eight months just to get ready to defend takedowns. Even though I got a lot better, I put in time, I got my arm broken twice. It was fun, and I enjoyed every fight I did. One, my family never wanted me to do it. I did it because I wanted to prove a point, and I proved that point to myself three times, but you can say twice because I won twice, I proved that point. I was offered one more fight with the PFL, and it would have been against a girl who was probably on my level.

“I got into a new relationship, and he can’t even handle me boxing. He’s going crazy when I’m fighting, even when I’m dominating. We had a talk, and he was like, ‘I cannot handle MMA.’ He was like, ‘Can you please not do that anymore?’ I was like, ‘OK.’ It just takes a lot of time to train for MMA, time that I don’t have. I did have aspirations of becoming a PFL MMA world champion and having a fight with Kayla Harrison or Larissa Pacheco one day. I did have those dreams, I did have those aspirations, but there’s just not enough time. I’m great already in boxing, and to be great like that in MMA, I would have to train for at least three, four years consistently. I did really good in MMA. It was fun, but it was too hard.”

In 2020, Shields decided to begin training MMA and made her debut in 2021. She scored a third-round TKO over Brittney Elkin at 2021 PFL 4 to win her first professional bout. However, in her second fight, Shields dropped a split decision to Abigail Montes before returning to the win column with a win over DeSantis. Shields went 2-1 under the PFL banner in three years as a pro in MMA.

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