{"id":78406,"date":"2025-08-19T18:54:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T18:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/78406\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T18:54:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T18:54:06","slug":"deontay-wilder-entering-talks-with-man-who-may-punch-even-harder-than-him-were-setting-it-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/78406\/","title":{"rendered":"Deontay Wilder Entering Talks With Man Who May Punch Even Harder Than Him: “We’re Setting It Up”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deontay Wilder<\/a>\u2018s next fight could see him take on a heavyweight that hits even harder than he does.<\/p>\n

Wilder returned to winning ways back in June when he stopped the relatively unknown Tyrrell Herndon in seven rounds at the Charles Koch Arena in Kansas.<\/a><\/p>\n

It was a much-needed victory for Wilder, who in the past few years has suffered two knockout defeats to Tyson Fury, a one-sided points loss to Joseph Parker, and then a fifth round stoppage loss to Zhilei Zhang in June 2024.<\/p>\n

He is now being linked to another heavyweight that fought Fury in recent years, and that man is former UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou.<\/p>\n

Fury and Ngannou met in October 2023 in what was the Cameroonian\u2019s first ever boxing bout, and despite many seeing it as a massive mismatch heading in, he managed to drop \u2018The Gypsy King\u2019 early on in the contest, before suffering a split decision loss.<\/p>\n

Ngannou then met Anthony Joshua in March 2024, with this bout going a lot more how people expected it to, as Joshua claimed a destructive second round knockout win.<\/p>\n

That was the last time Ngannou competed in boxing, with him since returning to MMA, but he revealed on The Ariel Helwani Show<\/a> that talks are set to begin for the fight with Wilder.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, I do [want Wilder]. We haven\u2019t engaged personally, but [talks are] going to be soon. We are setting some things up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ngannou isn\u2019t the only one to be linked to a clash with Wilder, with long-term rival Joshua also a potential option.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deontay Wilder\u2018s next fight could see him take on a heavyweight that hits even harder than he does.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-78406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78406","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=78406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}