On December 23 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the American sensationally lost to the New Zealander by a crushing decision.
“The last fight showed where I am and where I should be. If I had won, it wouldn’t have given me anything, I would have done in training what I did before. I wouldn't change a thing. So every cloud has a silver lining. It was a boring fight in which nothing happened.
I returned to the gym the next day. I hadn’t been in the ring for almost two years, only fought one round, and then went out to fight a guy who was still active. This is only a small part of what I can demonstrate, and at the same time I had less than three weeks to prepare,” Wilder said in an interview with the ESNEWS YouTube channel.