“Joshua was offered 50 million dollars, we provided him with this money, but he did not agree to fight. The only way you can ignore such a proposal is to ridicule it, turn it into a joke, try to show the public that it is not real.
This is a shitty moment. He was offered 50 million. So Joshua's team doesn't allow him to speak much on his own behalf, and when he does speak, it's always the wrong things, things that his camp doesn't like. And then they have to explain his statements.
It’s his managers who are keeping Anthony from fighting me because he’s a fighter. We've been waiting for this fight for six years. But there comes a point when we are simply told: “Forget about it.” Many times Joshua wanted to fight, took the fight, but his managers didn’t want it because Anthony brings money to the company. If he falls, then the business will fall too,” Wilder is quoted as saying by the Daily Mail.