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Deontay Wilder has revealed he wants FIFTY children - but fears he won't be able to find enough women.
Former heavyweight world champion Wilder has eight children - five girls and three boys - including four with ex-wife Jessica Scales. He is now engaged to model Telli Swift and wants to add at least four more kids to his brood. “I have eight,” he said. “I want four more. Twelve is an even number for me. I want 50. Twelve would be my ideal number, but I would love 50 but I’d have to find the women to do that. Unfortunately my wife is only one woman."
Wilder is currently preparing for his showdown with Joseph Parker in Saudi Arabia on Saturday night. Victory for the American in his first fight for 14 months will see him set up a clash with Anthony Joshua next March - assuming the Brit overcomes Otto Wallin on the same night.
And after years of back and forth, Wilder is confident a deal can be struck for the mega-fight. "That's the biggest fight in the world," he told Sky Sports. "Now the moment has come where it's the closest that it's ever been in history right now. The closest that it's ever been. I'm excited to say that. I'm not 100 per cent sure that it's going to happen. There's a lot of things that has gone on, a lot of things that has been done. "You can't be 100 per cent until that bell rings and that first punch has been thrown.
"That fight, it's a situation where it's been hot and cold and every time the talks happened, it always gets back hot and then somehow it would die back down, it don't happen. If I said I wasn't frustrated I would be lying. It definitely has been a frustrating time and moment for me. In my eyes you've got one fighter that really, really wants it and then on the other side you've got another fighter that don't want it equally as bad as the other."
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Wilder is also more than confident he will dispatch Parker this weekend. "Joseph Parker said he’s very confident and coming to win and knock me out," he added. "But I find that kind of hard to believe because you have this confidence as a challenger but not as champion. A lot of these guys are scared of what I’m going to do. It’s not just words. It’s my true actions. “Because as I said, the numbers do not lie. It just don’t . And when you see that, it puts fears in you knowing you could be next.”