Deontay Wilder in new excuse over shock loss to Joseph Parker

Deontay Wilder has blamed travel as one of the reasons behind his surprising loss to Joseph Parker last year. 

The American suffered a shock loss to Parker at December's Day of Reckoning event in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, thanks to a unanimous decision by the judges. 

The 38-year-old has repeatedly dismissed the loss and in a new interview with Seckbach the former WBC Heavyweight Champion has blamed the amount time he spent travelling in training as a reason for his performance in the fight. 

Wilder said: “It was a boring fight, nothing really happened. I went right back to training the next day. He really didn't do nothing, they just went off the little flurries or whatever. In the training for that I had to travel two times, 20 hours of travelling. And those guys were already in Europe, they were only 2/3 hours away. I'm not complaining, I'm just saying what I had to go through.

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