Deontay Wilder Blasts Anthony Joshua as a Fraud on Twitter After Embarrassing TKO Defeat
By Austin Pert
We had a changing of the guard on Saturday night at the Madison Square Garden, when former heavyweight champion of the world Anthony Joshua lost his belt in embarrassing fashion to Andy Ruiz Jr by seventh-round TKO.
But according to fellow heavyweight Deontay Wilder, Joshua didn't just lose his title, he never should've had it in the first place.
He wasn’t a true champion. His whole career was consisted of lies, contradictions and gifts.
— Deontay Wilder (@BronzeBomber) June 2, 2019
Facts and now we know who was running from who!!!!#TilThisDay
Joshua wasn't even supposed to fight Ruiz, as the June 1 fight in Manhattan was going to be between the British belt holder and Jarrell Miller before Miller was replaced due to testing positive for PEDs.
But Ruiz got his shot, and refused to let it go to waste, earning one of the great upsets in recent (and even not so recent) memory, along with all of Joshua's title belts.
OMG! OMG! I cannot believe this S$&@$! Anthony Joshua — holder of 3 belts, gets TKO’d by Butter Bean.......I mean some dude named Andy Ruiz JR. What a damn disgrace. Joshua looked completely gassed! More fatigued than hurt! Now how in the Hell did you let that happen? How?
— Stephen A Smith (@stephenasmith) June 2, 2019
Wilder, a WBC belt holder himself, is undefeated in his professional career, so he can still talk the talk.
It wasn't all negative flack at Joshua though, as fellow Brit Tyson Fury was one of the more diplomatic voices on social media following the bout.
We have our back and Forth’s but @anthonyfjoshua changed his stars through life. heavyweight boxing, these things happen, rest up, recover, regroup and come again ??
— TYSON FURY (@Tyson_Fury) June 2, 2019
It will be an uphill battle for Joshua to reclaim all of his belts, even as the current title holder is someone as unlikely as Ruiz.