Former unified heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko‘s ex-promoter has confirmed the Ukranian has has been offered a £60million deal with DAZN to make his comeback.
The former unified heavyweight champion has not fought since he was dropped by Anthony Joshua at Wembley in 2017. And Tom Loeffler wants to see his client take on Deontay Wilder if he signs with the same streaming giant as AJ. He told Sirius XM: “He had such a good championship run, that a lot of people want to see him back in the ring. A company is offering him a lot of money to come back. He’s one of those brands that fans want to see him come back. I’d like to see him come back. I don’t know whether he content with what he’s accomplished in his career already. You know, his brother Vitali was in the Hall of Fame last year and is the Mayor of Kiev. And Wladimir has had one of the most storied championship runs. It will be his decision. If it makes sense, and he’s been posting videos and photos showing the bug is still somewhere in the back of his head. My personal opinion is I’d like to see him and Deontay Wilder. But I think it would be fireworks as Deontay has big punching power, that would be a tremendous fight. But that’s just my personal opinion. I’ll make that clear as I don’t want to get in trouble with him.”
Wilder was asked recently if he would face Klitschko should the former heavyweight champion come back. The Bronze Bomber replied: “Na. We’ll still have to see what he does, let him get back in and build him up. Look, Klitschko, when he fought [Anthony] Joshua, he was out for two years and he came back and lost the stuff so he got to build himself back up. He can only live off his name for so long. You get to the point where [you’re no longer] that fighter that you used to be. I can’t say used to be somebody because he’s still somebody, he’s still Klitschko, he did amazing things in his career and you can never take that back. Even when I went to camp with him I learned a lot of things from him. So you can never take that from him. But the fighting scene, when you come back, you gotta build yourself back up. Especially against someone like me, because I’m coming in for the kill. I ain’t playing around with nobody.”
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