{"id":325186,"date":"2025-12-19T19:31:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T19:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/325186\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T19:31:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T19:31:06","slug":"deontay-wilder-predicts-a-prime-mike-tyson-vs-oleksandr-usyk-fight-weve-got-to-go-with-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/325186\/","title":{"rendered":"Deontay Wilder predicts a prime Mike Tyson vs Oleksandr Usyk fight: &#8220;We&#8217;ve got to go with him&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/deontay-wilder\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deontay Wilder<\/a> has been linked to a surprising clash with <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/oleksandr-usyk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oleksandr Usyk<\/a> in recent weeks, and \u2018The Bronze Bomber\u2019 has revealed how he believes a scrap between a prime <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/mike-tyson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Tyson<\/a> and his potential opponent would have played out.<\/p>\n<p>Wilder has lost four of his last six contests and looked past his best in recent defeats to both Joseph Parker and Zhilei Zhang, seeming oddly bewildered in the ring on both of those occasions.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, unified heavyweight ruler <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cx2e64dyxe3o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Usyk has named Wilder as his ideal opponent for 2026<\/a>, offering the Tuscaloosa-born knockout artist a shot at a shock return to the throne \u2013 one which Wilder believes he is capable of taking.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst talks for Usyk-Wilder are ongoing, the recent news regarding a <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/fury-joshua-confirmed-under-condition\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fight between Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua<\/a> leaves the American as the most lucrative available option for Usyk, making him an understandable selection for a voluntary defence.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The Bronze Bomber\u2019 has now offered his take on how he thinks Usyk would have fared against boxing legend Mike Tyson, who still holds the honour of being the youngest world heavyweight champion in history.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@dailymailsport\/video\/7583011690187410710?_r=1&amp;_t=ZN-92AalQbuahC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Daily Mail Sport<\/a>, Wilder was full of praise for the Ukrainian, picking him to trump a prime Tyson in a fantasy fight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this current time, we have got to go with Oleksandr Usyk [to beat Mike Tyson].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wilder then went on to state that he <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/deonaty-wilder-on-unbeatable-heavyweight\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">believes Muhammad Ali would have gotten the better of Usyk<\/a>, but also declared that Ali would have beaten every past and present heavyweight when at his best.<\/p>\n<p>                                            <script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deontay Wilder has been linked to a surprising clash with Oleksandr Usyk in recent weeks, and \u2018The Bronze&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-325186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}