Topics: Simon Jordan, Deontay Wilder, Boxing, Tyson Fury
Simon Jordan has addressed his viral interview with Deontay Wilder that ended with the former boxing champion storming out in anger.
Ahead of his boxing comeback against Derek Chisora, former WBC heavyweight champion Wilder spoke with Jordan on talkSPORT to preview the fight.
During the interview Jordan decided to ask the American about his infamous rivalry with Tyson Fury, criticising Wilder's accusations that the British heavyweight had cheated during their fights.
Wilder didn't react well to the comments and quickly became heated, shouting at the journalist before storming out of the interview as security guards stepped in.
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And now, Jordan has spoken out to address the viral interview and reveal how he now feels about the 40-year-old boxer.
During the interview, Jordan mention Wilder's previous claims that Fury had removed some of the padding in his boxing gloves ahead his knockout victories in their second and third fights, alongside some of Wilder's other claims.
Wilder, angered even at the mention of Fury's name, quickly got up to leave, shouting: “You can say what you want, I know the truth, I have the facts.”
Speaking about the incident the following day, Jordan admitted that he was embarrassed throughout the whole exchange and even thought that Wilder could have been on drugs during the interview.
"I was a little bit embarrassed because I thought the show's coming off the rails and it was a big show and Deontay Wilder's a big name," Jordan admitted on talkSPORT.
"I thought he's a bit of a tit and then I thought is he is he on drugs or something or is this theatrics and then I just came around to the conclusion that he's not right he's not he's not well."
Jordan defended his decision to continue pressing Wilder on the topic after the boxer initially tried to steer the conversation away from Fury, pointing out that he was simply relaying Wilder's own comments back to him.
He added: "I didn't provoke Deontay Wilder by asking him a question that he didn't want to answer, I asked him a question about something he'd said, not something I was trying to engineer into clickbait.
"Tyson Fury in some people's minds is a legend in boxing and you're sitting in England, I thought not unreasonable someone else asked him the question and he didn't like it and he can't answer it so he gets all agitated and upset about."
Jordan later claimed that part of the Wilder interview even had to be cut out of the video clip that's gone viral online, as the knockout artist even threatened to punch Jordan due to his comments.
"I mean there's loads more that you didn't see you know he threatened to punch me in the face and god knows whatever else," Jordan revealed.
"I understand that he's got things in his life that have challenged him but that looks to me like a man that's struggling with things."
