Deontay Wilder Confirms Anthony Joshua Fight Won't Happen in NSFW Rant

There will be no fight between Deontay Wilder and Anthony Joshua—and one of the fighters is irate about it.

Wilder took to Twitter just after midnight on the East Coast on Thursday to give fans an NSFW update:

That comes just more than a day after Wilder directed a different NSFW tweet at Joshua:

His co-manager Shelly Finkel also commented on the situation, via ESPN's Dan Rafael: "We're disappointed but we're not surprised. Deontay and I thought about this, that they weren't going to do the fight. We're disappointed. We wasted a lot of time."

Wilder revealed in the top tweet that he was willing to do whatever it took to make a fight happen. That echoes what he said earlier this month (Warning: Video contains profanity):

Promoter Eddie Hearn told iFL TV (h/t ESPN.com) on Wednesday that he was still willing to have a Wilder-Joshua bout even with the latter having to face Alexander Povetkin in the meantime. Hearn offered Wilder (40-0) $20 million, $15 million to fight Joshua (21-0) and $5 million to fight "an opponent of his choice in New York" this fall, to make it happen.

"I haven't withdrawn the offer," Hearn said. "The offer is still there. He can sign for that fight today, tomorrow."

Per Rafael, Joshua and Povetkin will square off in London in late September. The date and venue have yet to be determined.

Hearn has also spent some time on Twitter the past few days trying to share his side of the Wilder negotiations:

"I sent a personal email to Deontay and I said to him I'm very disappointed your team did not come back to me with comments on the contract," Hearn said, via Rafael. "We hope we can get this fight over the line and we look forward to receiving a signed contract or comments as soon as possible (to fight in April)."

For now, it appears as though negotiations are dead and a fight will not happen.