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Joshua vs Breazeale: AJ puts Deontay Wilder top of hitlist

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Anthony Joshua has put rival world champion Deontay Wilder at the top of his heavyweight hitlist.

Britain's IBF champion takes on unbeaten challenger Dominic Breazeale, live on Sky Sports Box Office on Saturday from The O2 in London.

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Joshua's first world title defence will also be screened in America on Showtime and the 26-year-old sees WBC boss Wilder as the ideal opponent when he travels across the Atlantic to fight in the United States.

He told Sky Sports: "It is a big market. It comes with pressure, but one day I'll box there and I'll think to myself 'why didn't I capitalise on that market?' 

"It's something that I want to start progressing to. One of the fights that I'm going to have, I will go there. 

One of the fights that I'm going to have, I will go there. The person that springs to mind is Wilder
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"The person that springs to mind is Wilder. Then again I could go there and have one of those building fights that will showcase me to the American public before I get myself up to the big names like Wilder. 

"It's a good opportunity and it's good that Showtime are on board, but I've got to win Saturday."

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Deontay Wilder retained his WBC heavyweight title by knocking out Artur Szpilka

Wilder will make the fourth defence of his WBC strap against Chris Arreola in his home town of Birmingham, Alabama on July 16, a rearranged fight after original challenger Alexander Povetkin failed an initial drugs test.

The 'Bronze Bomber' gives fellow American Breazeale a chance this weekend and is refusing to predict a successful first defence for rival Joshua.

He said: "I definitely see the fight as a 50-50. You've got two big heavyweights, and the challenger wants what the champion has, and the champion wants to keep what he has. 

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Anthony Joshua trains ahead of Saturday's fight with Dominic Breazeale

"It's going to be interesting because we've seen Breazeale in a lot of wars. 

"He's almost been taken out by some of the smaller heavyweights, he's been punched around, but he has always survived. 

"We've seen Joshua has also been busted up as well, but he has kept his composure, and this fight is in his backyard among his people.

"I think that it'll be a good fight because of Breazeale - I think he really wants it."

Watch Anthony Joshua vs Dominic Breazeale live on Sky Sports Box Office from The O2, June 25. Book the event via your Sky remote or online here.

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