Anthony Joshua back in talks over spectacular Deontay Wilder boxing match after years of speculation

Joshua's stock has fallen in recent years, having twice lost to Oleksandr Usyk - while he was also defeated by Andy Ruiz Jr back in 2019.

Wilder wants a huge fight to boost his own reputation, having twice lost to Tyson Fury.

Negotiations have once again resumed for Anthony Joshua vs Deontay Wilder. The teams have been in negotiations since 2015.

— Boxing Kingdom (@BoxingKingdom14) November 9, 2023

And Boxing Kingdom on X have claimed negotiations have once again resumed for Joshua vs Wilder.

Should a fight happen, it will finally end years of speculation.

Wilder recently said he'd love to fight Joshua and joked he would go to England in order to thrash out an agreement.

Speaking to Blue Blood Sports TV, the American said: "I just don't know what's up with Joshua bro.

"Maybe I'm gonna have to go to England and sit down with him on some real man s**t.

"I don't want him to feel like I have anything against him.

"I know he's afraid of me and I still say that to this day because he hasn't proven differently.

"I know what fear is."

Wilder added: "I just feel like if Joshua really wanted to fight me, he would do it.

"It's up to the fighter at the end of the day.

"No matter what manager, promoter, whatever - when a fighter wants to fight another fighter, it's gonna happen...

"Joshua - me and you is the biggest fight in the world bro, what are you doing? How many people are you listening to?

"I really wanna talk to that dude."

Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn was asked why Joshua and Wilder hadn't fought yet during an interview last month.

He laid the blame firmly at Wilder's door, insisting the Bronze Bomber and his entourage never sent the paperwork in time.

“All I can tell you is we got an approach from Saudi Arabia and Skill Challenge," he stated.

"We got an offer from them, we accepted the offer, Wilder accepted the offer, and the contracts never came.

“Now, should I have known that? I’ve done two fights with those guys, they were solid every time they said it’s happening, it happened, so in my mind it was done.

"But things changed out there and I understand that and respect it, so that’s put a spanner in the works.

“So now we’re looking at it, myself and Shelly continue to talk, but we look at Vegas and we look at some people making offers, some people wasting time against out in the Middle East, but we have to explore those options.

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"So all I can tell you is January is definitely not happening.”

Wilder's trainer, Malik Scott, has previously said Joshua doesn't want the fight to happen.

But Hearn furiously disputed that claim by saying: “Malik Scott talks so much s**t.

"Like he also said it was my fault — we weren’t even involved in the negotiations.

"So the situation is we were offered a deal that we accepted. Now it’s not my fault now that some of the alternatives might not be the number anywhere near the last number.

"So that just makes us consider our options.

"We’re also in line to potentially fight for the IBF world title against Filip Hrgovic or we’ll see what happens with Otto Wallin.

“So I don’t care about Deontay Wilder. He’s in his own problems.

"The guy ain’t fought for a year and his last fight was about 40 seconds.

"So he’s a guy that he don’t really want to fight, I don’t think. Joshua’s boxed twice in seven months and he may fight in December or January.”