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Deontay Wilder Calls Anthony Joshua 'A Coward' On 'Good Morning Britain'

Deontay Wilder Calls Anthony Joshua 'A Coward' On 'Good Morning Britain'

Wilder had some choice words for Anthony Joshua

Tom Wood

Tom Wood

Ah, boxing. A sport where two people with a pantomime dislike for each other can sit across the same table from each other and complain about how they're going to knock the other one's head off.

Well, in a break from that today, on Good Morning Britain, the two people who are scheduled to fight one another actually agreed for a change and both cussed out a third guy who wasn't even there. That's not how these things usually go.

Let me explain. Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder were appearing on GMB to talk up their upcoming bout in Los Angeles on 1 December.

The fight is one of the most anticipated in heavyweight boxing for a while between a man who holds one of the world belts and a man who believes that the other belts are rightfully his.

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However, there was an elephant in the room. A huge elephant who is the heavyweight champion of the world and has just knocked out his mandatory challenger Alexander Povetkin the other week. I'm talking, of course, about Anthony Joshua.

Now, both Fury and Wilder dislike Joshua, so they actually have more in common than they think. Perhaps they won't fight after all, and just hug it out until they can decide which one of them should get the first go at Josh.

I doubt it.

Wilder said: "Hey Joshua, me and Fury have got this thing going on to see who is the biggest and baddest in the world, to see who is champion, one face, one name, something you was too coward to do,

"You was a coward, and you know this, your team knows this. Every last one of you saying things over again, you manipulated it, you conjured it. You are compulsive liars."

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Incidentally, Fury has lost a whole heap of weight as he makes his return after a long and only sometimes self-imposed break from the fight game.

He claimed at this interview that he'd lost a freakish amount of weight ahead of this fight. I mean, he's still huge, but he claims that he's lost about a small person's worth of timber.

He said: "I've lost another 15lbs (one stone) since we last met.. [So altogether] maybe about 135lbs (9.6st)."

Bloody hell.

When the two meet at the Staples Center in Los Angeles in a couple of months, we'll find out who is the best out of these two, then Joshua will have to make a fight with them if he's to dodge more accusations of cowardice.

Despite all of the wrangling and name-calling, it's definitely a healthy time for heavyweight boxing.

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Topics: Tyson Fury, News, Boxing, Deontay Wilder