‘Hopefully he can start looking good again’: Hearn talks Wilder’s return

Eddie Hearn says Deontay Wilder’s upcoming fight won’t tell us much but he’s hoping for him to rebound his career.

During a conversation with Fight Hype, Matchroom promoter Eddie Hearn speaks on a couple of subjects, including what he thinks Deontay Wilder (43-4-1, 42 KOs) still has left to offer as he gets set to take on Tyrrell Anthony Herndon (24-5, 15 KOs) on June 27.

Wilder is obviously looking to bounce back from a stretch of fights where he’s lost four of his last five, with three of those coming by knockout, and Hearn offers his thoughts on where things stand with Wilder’s career.

“I think the fight’s not going to tell us too much but just to get that confidence of a win,” Hearn said. “If he struggles against this guy he’s got to pack it in. But hopefully he can win well and, you know, we’d signed to fight Deontay Wilder, we were announcing it an hour in Saudi Arabia; he lost to Joseph Parker...

“Of he keeps winning maybe people can talk about [the Joshua] fight again. So it’s definitely a fight that I don’t rule out but I think people don’t really give Wilder much shot against AJ right now, but hopefully he can start looking good again.

“It’s funny how people can be so fearful of a fighter and then all of the sudden have no fear whatsoever. I don’t think anybody would now fear fighting Deontay Wilder, where at a point everybody thought ‘oh my, this guy is the biggest puncher in the history of the sport,” and now everyone wants to fight him. So we shall see.”