After every championship fight the champion is asked who he wants next. You do watch boxing don't you. Plus Wilder was a champion himself.
That interview with Finkle is precisely this. He was asked 'What's next?'. His reply was 'Not ready for Klitschko'. That is a duck.
So ten pages in and I think we have established three things. A. If you hate Wilder, he still won't be even close to #1 even if he beats Fury. B. If you love Wilder, he either already was #1 or this will make him that. C. If you are objective, if he beats Fury it puts him in the conversation. He and AJ would both be right up there and they would need to fight to determine the true #1.
So you are saying he didn't call out Wlad because he didn't have to but instead called out other belt holders erm because he didn't have to... So what you are saying is wilder has shown is a cherry-picking Bitc* who always finds an excuse to not fight the best in the division. the fact that he has never fought another beltholder despite being the WBC champion for almost four years now shows how serious he really is to fight the best.
You are mistaken. If you are going to call fighters out and then instantly hide behind Finkels padlocked shutters and price yourself out it isnt really calling somebody out is it. Contracts between AJ and Wilder have only come from Matchroom, Hearn hasnt been the one refusing meetings and AJ isnt the one whose saying things like, "im not going to fight Anthony Joshua". Wilder did say that its right there on youtube coming from his own mouth.
Naaaaaah. AJ is the DEFAULT #1 Heavyweight in the eyes of some. Not Consensus. Very big difference. Wilder-Fury is a total game changer and will relegate AJ back down where he belongs at Number 3. He doesn't have the resume to make a claim for #2 and his paper belts won't be enough to make an argument for it anymore either.
So why isn't AJ calling out Wilder and trying to make the fight? Wilder has been champion much longer and has a far better claim as champion than AJ's paper belt collection. Surely AJ should be screaming from the rooftops about how he wan't to be the best and beat the champ? He's literally never beaten the best or anyone close to it. Not once. Sad really.
He's a chicken coward that's why. He knows it's the end of the road for him, the moment he steps in that ring with Wilder. He had the chance to challenge for Wilder's WBC title long before he fought Klitschko. He was orginally in the WBC rankings where he would have been mandatory to fight Wilder , and instead pulled out to chase after the paper champion Charles Martin to pay million for him to hand over his belt. So he's ducked Wilder twice now.