{"id":619182,"date":"2026-04-20T12:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T12:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/619182\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T12:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T12:57:07","slug":"dillian-whyte-makes-ko-prediction-for-wilder-vs-joshua-it-doesnt-make-sense-for-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/619182\/","title":{"rendered":"Dillian Whyte makes KO prediction for Wilder vs Joshua: “It doesn’t make sense for him”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dillian Whyte<\/a> believes a battle between Anthony Joshua<\/a> and Deontay Wilder<\/a> \u2013 two monstrous punchers \u2013 would end in emphatic fashion.<\/p>\n

The pair were first in negotiations for an undisputed clash<\/a> in 2018, back when Joshua had unified the division with a unanimous points victory over Joseph Parker.<\/p>\n

\u2018AJ\u2019 was just two fights removed from his compelling battle with Wladimir Klitschko, which saw him claim the IBF and WBA world titles after engineering an 11th-round finish.<\/p>\n

Wilder, meanwhile, had just secured a career-best victory over Luis Ortiz, who gave a titanic effort but ultimately found himself on the receiving end of a 10th-round stoppage.<\/p>\n

But then, after talks for the Joshua fight collapsed, the American entered his first encounter with Tyson Fury<\/a>, retaining his WBC world title following a controversial draw.<\/p>\n

Joshua, on the other hand, was relieved of his belts in 2019, when Andy Ruiz Jr scored a monumental upset by dethroning the champion with a sixth-round finish.<\/p>\n

This seemed to put the nail in the coffin of a potential clash with Wilder, who would later suffer a punishing seventh-round stoppage defeat to Fury in 2020.<\/p>\n

There were, however, multiple attempts to revisit their matchup down the line, with the pair still refusing to rule out a possible encounter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In terms of who would win, though, former world title challenger Whyte has suggested one potential outcome to iFL TV<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor AJ it makes sense, for Wilder it doesn\u2019t. I think AJ will knock him out to be honest. I think AJ should have enough left in the tank to knock Wilder out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whyte defeated Joshua as an amateur, but later suffered a seventh-round stoppage defeat to the Olympic gold medallist in 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dillian Whyte believes a battle between Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder \u2013 two monstrous punchers \u2013 would end…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-619182","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\/619182","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=619182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}