"He caught me in a dazing moment," Wilder mentioned on his wobbly eighth spherical. "I f***ing zoned out for one minute, I don’t know what the f*** happened. The punch came but it wasn’t nothing that hurt, none of his punches fazed me at all.”

Boxing promoter Frank Warren suggested an injury might have been behind Wilder's loss, claiming he had spent a long time in a cryo-chamber.

Warren told talkSPORT: "I used to be simply speaking to Shelly Finkel [Wilder's manager] they usually had been telling me that he had an issue. He went into a type of cryo chambers and sat in it for a very long time. I do not know. Obviously, there's going to be some excuse."

The defeat has cast doubt on a future fight between Joshua and Wilder. However, Joshua has stated he would still be open to fighting Wilder if he is not up for a world heavyweight title fight.

"Wilder simply got here up quick however he'll dwell to battle one other day," AJ said. "Me and him may nonetheless get it on, we may nonetheless get it cracking. I imagine I'm an enormous risk, I nonetheless assume Wilder's a risk and I nonetheless assume it does superb numbers if we get it on. But I'll go away that all the way down to my administration, trainers, promoters to make that call - I'm all the way down to battle anybody at any time when, and whoever."

But the American has claimed Joshua was planning to retire after his resounding win over Otto Wallin. “They really don’t want that fight," Wilder informed 78SPORTSTV, "When I lost did you see how happy he was coming out? ‘Now I can escape.' I broke out laughing, I said, ‘That n***a’s happy as f***.’ I made him able to perform like that. He was like, ‘I ain’t gotta fight Wilder.’ "The hearsay was he was speaking about retiring if I received... One gentleman, he overheard them speaking and he got here again and informed me what he heard, and their plans.

"They don't really have true intentions of fighting me, they can say what they want, but I know for sure. My heart is shattered because I wanted to know what would have become of that. They can escape now if they want to... March 9, the fight still can go on. But this is a perfect way for them to get out."