Less than an hour after Anthony Joshua cruised past Andy Ruiz Jr. to reclaim three heavyweight title belts, the division’s other champion was on the phone, loaded with opinions.



Deontay Wilder, in a rousing conversation with The Athletic, unleashed on the “very, very safe, cautious” style that Joshua used to out-jab and maintain distance while adding scathing criticism at overweight Ruiz for botching Wilder’s effort to unify the belts.



“Joshua did what he had to do to get the win. He ran around the ring and was on his bike all day,” Wilder said after 65 of Joshua’s 107 landed punches were recorded as jabs. “Basically, he had (former champion Wladimir) Klitschko in the camp and he was a lot like Klitschko: that jab-grab-hold method. That’s all he did tonight.”



Coming off a highlight-reel knockdown of Tyson Fury one year ago this month, followed by a first-round knockout of Dominic Breazeale in March...