SI's Chris Mannix recaps the "Day of Reckoning" event featuring Anthony Joshua, Deontay Wilder, and Joseph Parker, Otto Wallin.
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00:00 Wrapping up here in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where the big takeaway from the Day of Reckoning card is that Anthony Joshua
00:07 Against Deontay Wilder is going to have to wait for another day
00:11 That's because Wilder was upset by former champion Joseph Parker in the co-main event
00:17 This was a fight that Dante Wilder was not competitive in from start to finish. I scored the fight
00:21 120-108 in favor of Joseph Parker a complete shutout and frankly
00:28 Wilder looked like a fighter that was showing his age at 38 and was showing the effects of
00:34 Only fighting one round in the last two years
00:37 So Wilder loses Joshua took care of business in the main
00:41 That was a terrific performance by Joshua getting a fifth round stoppage
00:45 Against Otto Wall and took the fight to wall and kind of showed shades of the old Anthony Joshua and it continues to show
00:51 Incremental improvements as on the comeback trail after those losses to all examiners
00:57 So Wilder, he's got a lot to consider. He told me after the fight that he is gonna consider retirement
01:02 We'll certainly talk it over with his family and now AJ is going to go on a different path
01:07 The most likely path is towards the IBF heavyweight title
01:11 That's likely to become vacant after the Tyson Fury Alexander Usyk fight in February if and when it does
01:18 Joshua would be in line to face Philip Hergovich who fought on the undercard for that version of the heavyweight title
01:25 So no Deontay Wilder against Anthony Joshua for Joshua
01:29 It is now a pivot try to become a three-time heavyweight champion after he stops Otto Wall in
01:37 You
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