Deontay Wilder on Usyk falling through: "I mean, you know, with the Usyk fight, it was a lot of rumors. The rumors were true, and me and Derek been working on the fight for a very long time. Actually, this fight was supposed to have happened back in December, you know what I mean? But due to other situations and stuff, it didn’t happen.
And here we are now with the Usyk situation. It was like, I’m 40 years old as a fighter. I’m ready to go. I can’t sit back. I can’t sit around. And of course we had plans of what we want to do to get to the top. But during that time the Usyk situation, the call came — he mentioned it first, he wanted to fight me — and then the buzz started happening, the phone calls started happening where we started talking about it.
But I don’t think they had a real set date or place where they wanted to go. That still was lingering around, and the clock is tick-tocking. If you understand boxing, things either go slow or they come real fast. There’s no medium. You got to be ready at all times. And when this fight was made — ’cause we still kept negotiations going on with Derek too — you had to have all your options open.
You just can’t sit around, especially like I said, I’m an older fighter. I’m not a young fighter. I got to keep going. So by the time we got the Derek fight made, then that’s when the other side was like, ‘Oh, we’re ready to go.’ But we felt like it was just too late, and we wanted to take this opportunity first before taking the other one. You know what I mean?”
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