Is deontay wilder on the slide? This shocking fact suggests so...

The hard-hitting American holds the WBC version of the heavyweight title – the only strap now missing from AJ’s collection of belts following his victory over Joseph Parker on Saturday

night. Joshua, 28, outpointed Parker at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff to snatch the WBO title, adding to the WBA, IBF and IBO belts he already holds. Negotiations between AJ’s camp and

Wilder’s representatives are said to be underway this week with a proposed super-fight targeted for late in 2018. Wilder, 40-0 (39 KO), was critical of Joshua’s performance at the weekend,

uploading a video to his Instagram account labelling the victory a “robbery” and telling the camera: “My grandma always said if I ain’t have something nice to say, then don’t say nothin’ at

all.” But the 32-year-old could count himself lucky to still be in possession of the WBC belt after surviving a seventh-round scare against Luis Ortiz last month before knocking the aged

Cuban out. BBC boxing analyst Steve Bunce even suggested Wilder was just one punch away from being laid out on his feet – but the Bronze Bomber showed impressive powers of recovery to put

Ortiz away in the 10th. However, his struggles against Ortiz follow on from a similar pattern of recent results that could give Joshua’s camp cause for much optimism. Wilder’s first 32 bouts

never reached the fifth round as he accumulated just 58 rounds of action while racking up an impressive 100% knockout ratio.