WBC Heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder met with John Skipper of DAZN on Tuesday in effort to create a gateway for a showdown with Anthony Joshua, according to Dan Rafael of espn..com.
“We did (meet) but nothing was resolved and internally we are going to continue to talk about it and then we will get back to them, but it went well,” Wilder manager Shelly Finkel told ESPN.
“I will not characterize them all, or even confirm them,” Skipper said. “We have discussions with people and until we announce I rarely comment on them until we announce, so I don’t have anything to announce, so no comment other than we’re interested in having the best fights on DAZN and we will put the fights on that people want to see. It’s pretty clear that one fight people want to see is Joshua and Wilder.”
“I think we’ve got a brilliant chance of making the Joshua fight,” Joshua promoter Eddie Hearn said on Saturday night at the Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona, New York, following the Dmitry Bivol-Joe Smith Jr. light heavyweight title bout he promoted.
“I’ve reached out a dozen times to make offers (to Wilder). Skipper has to be the one, in my opinion, who brokers the deal … He already proved through the Canelo and Golovkin signings that he’s very good at doing this. I think he’ll get Wilder. I think he will put the deal together. (Skipper) spoke to me and said what do I think? I said go for it. Me and Shelly aren’t going to get a deal done and me and Wilder aren’t going to get a deal done. So (Skipper is) the one to get it done.”
