Joshua faces Wallin with big plans (Wilder), new trainer (Davison)
Heavyweight fight tops 8-bout 'Day of Reckoning' mega PPV card
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Several days before Anthony Joshua was to leave England for Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the former two-time unified heavyweight titlist sat in a parked car, munched on lunch and leisurely answered questions from six media members over a Zoom call for about 15 minutes.
Naturally, one of the topics was about Joshua facing Deontay Wilder in a long-anticipated showdown on March 9, also in Riyadh, where the General Entertainment Authority is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to put on major boxing events, as long as he and Wilder don’t lose on Saturday (DAZN PPV, ESPN+ PPV, PPV.com, 11 a.m. ET, $39.99).
Joshua is in the 12-round main event against Otto Wallin, whose only loss came via competitive decision to Tyson Fury four years ago, and Wilder will face fellow former titlist Joseph Parker in the 12-round co-feature of the stacked eight-fight PPV.
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