{"id":221175,"date":"2025-06-28T11:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T11:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/221175\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T11:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T11:14:09","slug":"wilder-vs-herndon-bronze-bomber-returns-with-win-whats-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/221175\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilder vs Herndon: Bronze Bomber returns with win, what’s next?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wilder has now stopped 43 opponents in 44 wins, many in dramatic fashion. <\/p>\n

But since his trilogy with Briton Fury – a brutal, history-making rivalry that saw him floored five times and stopped twice – Wilder has never quite looked the same.<\/p>\n

Those defeats appeared to drain not just his record but his aura, confidence, and perhaps his trust in the sport. <\/p>\n

In the aftermath, Wilder made unsubstantiated claims of loaded gloves, spiked water and betrayal from within his team, drawing ridicule and alienating some fans.<\/p>\n

A long-rumoured bout with Anthony Joshua seemed close in late 2023, but Wilder was soundly beaten on points by New Zealand’s Joseph Parker<\/a> in Saudi Arabia. It was a flat, uninspired display that derailed the Joshua fight and raised fresh doubts about Wilder’s future.<\/p>\n

Then came the crushing fifth-round defeat to Zhang last year – a loss that, to many, looked like the end.<\/p>\n

Wilder vanished from the spotlight. He went quiet on social media and drifted off the radar. <\/p>\n

He insists he never planned to walk away and says he had been working with a sports psychologist to help him heal and rekindle his love for boxing.<\/p>\n

This comeback, he says, was always part of the plan. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wilder has now stopped 43 opponents in 44 wins, many in dramatic fashion. But since his trilogy with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-221175","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}