Ricky Hatton believes Anthony Joshua's next opponent should be Deontay Wilder.
Joshua was last in action in August when he he knocked out Robert Helenius, and now Hatton says "AJ" should be working with the "Bronze Bomber" to put together a bout.
"He’s had a couple of warm up fights since [losing back-to-back title fights to Oleksandr] Usyk, now is the time for him to get in [against Wilder]," Hatton told Mighty Tips.
Wilder last fought in Oct. 2022, when he defeated Helenius in the first round. Since then, there has been speciulation that Wilder and Joshua would square off, but the potential fight has never progressed past the theoretical stage, which Hatton said left him a "little bit devastated" as a boxing fan.
However, should the fight happen, Hatton feels he has a good idea what will happen.
When asked who he thinks would win between Joshua and Wilder, Hatton said, "It’s the heavyweight division, so whoever lands. You’d have to turn around and say who lands first."
He added: "Technically Wilder is hopeless — you wouldn’t teach a novice kid to throw a right hand like he throws it, it’s all over the show.
"But when it goes straight down the pipe, it’s murderous, horrendous, he’s one of the biggest punchers in heavyweight history.
"The only reason he couldn’t keep Tyson [Fury] down was because Tyson could see his backhand coming and technically he’s all over the shop and with Tyson’s upper body movement, his ability to switch and pull, that’s why when he did get in he wasn’t able to get the next one in.
"But with AJ, he’s more in front of you and maybe you’d have to say Wilder has a better chance of getting it in against AJ than Fury. But when you see how bad technically Wilder is and how good technically AJ is, there’s every chance AJ can get it in first."