{"id":617674,"date":"2026-04-19T19:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T19:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/617674\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T19:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T19:17:08","slug":"deontay-wilder-called-out-for-fight-he-has-run-from-for-years-id-love-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/617674\/","title":{"rendered":"Deontay Wilder called out for fight he has ‘run from for years’: “I’d love that”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deontay Wilder<\/a> has been accused of \u201crunning\u201d from a former world title challenger, who hopes their heavyweight encounter can finally come to fruition.<\/p>\n

The 40-year-old returned to action earlier this month, edging a split decision against fellow veteran Derek Chisora<\/a> after flooring his man on two occasions.<\/p>\n

It was a scrappy affair for the most part, yet Wilder left many believing that he is capable of securing at least one more notable victory, before finally sailing into the sunset.<\/p>\n

In fairness, it was a vastly improved performance to what he produced against Joseph Parker and Zhilei Zhang, who outpointed and stopped him in 2023 and 2024, respectively.<\/p>\n

In that same breath, though, it must be said that the former world champion is a far cry from the man who twice dropped Tyson Fury in 2021, before ultimately suffering an 11th-round stoppage defeat.<\/p>\n

Another fighter who many consider to be nearing the end, meanwhile, is Dillian Whyte, who has not fought since his first-round stoppage defeat to Moses Itauma<\/a> in August.<\/p>\n

For a brief time, the Londoner was regarded as a genuine world-level contender, but now appears to be sitting on the brink of retirement.<\/p>\n

Before finally calling it quits, though, the 38-year-old has told Impact Boxing<\/a> that he is more than willing to hang around for a potential dustup with Wilder.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would love to fight Deontay Wilder; I\u2019ve been trying to fight him for half of my career.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe little b**ch [has] been running. So yeah, let\u2019s see.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whyte challenged for the WBC heavyweight title against Fury in 2022, but came up short as he suffered a sixth-round stoppage loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deontay Wilder has been accused of \u201crunning\u201d from a former world title challenger, who hopes their heavyweight encounter…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-617674","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}