{"id":263042,"date":"2025-07-14T01:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T01:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/263042\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T01:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T01:55:09","slug":"miller-bemoans-wilders-winning-return-issues-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/263042\/","title":{"rendered":"Miller bemoans Wilder’s winning return, issues warning"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deontay Wilder<\/a> is still his own biggest critic. But considering how far he’s come in this latest rebuild phase, the former long-reigning heavyweight champion allowed himself some grace following his seventh-round stoppage win over Tyrrell Herndon<\/a> on June 27.
Jarrell ‘Big Baby’ Miller<\/a>, on the other hand, didn’t give him a break.<\/p>\n

“Deontay looked like a bag of wet dog s–t,” Miller told Fight Hub TV. “Unfortunately, he did not look like his normal self.” <\/p>\n

Herndon (24-6, 15 KOs) was a significant step down in competition than what Wilder (44-4-1, 43 KOs) has become accustomed to over the past half-decade. Yet after being soundly beaten at the elite level of late, he clearly needed a softer touch to build confidence.<\/p>\n

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Consecutive defeats by Joseph Parker<\/a> and Zhilei Zhang<\/a> made Wilder, as well as the rest of the world, realise that his level of opposition needed to be tempered. Yet even against a journeyman who idolised him, Miller wasn’t impressed by what he saw.
A portion of the boxing world is ambivalent. Some believe he looked as good as ever while others are convinced he should retire. Miller (26-1-2, 22 KOs) might be on the side of the latter, but that isn’t stopping him from wanting to add Wilder to his own resume<\/a> before then.
Miller wants a chance to prove his hands are as good as his words. First things first, the 36-year-old may have to first get past Jared Anderson<\/a> (18-1, 15 KOs) before lining up a Wilder fight. Nothing is set in stone yet, though reports suggest discussions are ongoing.<\/p>\n

Wilder meanwhile, hopes age really is nothing but a number. Before moving back into fights with the upper echelon at heavyweight, the former WBC titlist wants a few more tune-ups.<\/p>\n

Miller, who withdrew from his proposed Fabio Wardley showdown last month through a shoulder injury sustained during training camp<\/a>, hasn’t boxed since pitching a 12-round majority draw against former world champion Andy Ruiz on a Riyadh Season bill in August. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deontay Wilder is still his own biggest critic. But considering how far he’s come in this latest rebuild…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,28720,20429,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-263042","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-deontay-wilder","10":"tag-jarrell-miller","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114849102122925501","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263042","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=263042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}