Deontay Wilder reacts to Anthony Joshua's career-defining defeat to Oleksandr Usyk

Anthony Joshua‘s ‘stamina problems’ were the reason why he lost to Oleksandr Usyk in their rematch, former WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder believes.

The British boxing hero suffered a second consecutive defeat to the former undisputed cruiserweight champ on Saturday at Jeddah Superdome in Saudi Arabia.

Joshua, 32, arguably got the better of the Ukrainian in the ninth round, but Wilder believes his bad gas tank let him down by the end of the fight.

He told ESNews: “Sometimes you just look at both fighters, and sometimes the eye test will tell it all.

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“The body language is telling a story, the way the momentum of a fighter is telling a story, you could look at Usyk and tell how confident he was, how the tables have turned, you could tell he owned it, he feels like who he is.

“With Joshua you could tell that he wasn’t himself, his usual self of being motivated and secure within himself.

“You could just easily tell, then from the last fight, you can go off the last fight, certain things that happened, you just had that feeling.

“We all know Joshua has stamina problems and different things like that. We always felt he’s too big, for certain things he’ll do he’s not getting enough oxygen in his muscles.

“Like I’ve always said, they’ve given him everything. When you give a man everything and then when it’s time to really bite down on the wire, how far can you go?”

After the result was read out, AJ threw two of Usyk’s belts out of the ring, before grabbing the microphone to deliver a bizarre rant.

Joshua’s post-fight outburst troubled Wilder, who said: “I think the meltdown comes when you create such a fighter, you give them