Disgraced American heavyweight Jarrell Miller is reportedly in talks to be added to a money-spinning Saudi boxing invoice on December 23 anticipated to be joint-headlined by Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder. AJ has unfinished enterprise along with his forgotten foe after their bout was cancelled in 2019 on account of Miller failing a pre-fight drug check.

According to esteemed boxing journalist Dan Rafael, a struggle between Miller and former WBA “regular” titlist Daniel Dubois is within the works for subsequent month. Meanwhile, Joshua vs Otto Wallin and Wilder vs Joseph Parker are anticipated to prime the invoice in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Providing the entire offers get completed Joshua and Miller will come face-to-face for the primary time since their much-anticipated contest collapsed 4 years in the past. While the ship appears to have sailed for a re-booking Miller's promoter Dmitriy Salita revealed to Express Sport in January that his shopper remains to be intent on dealing with AJ.

“I received a phone call from Jarrell Miller last week, he said ‘Dmitriy I’ll take short money, tell Joshua I want to fight, and I’ll take short money," said Salita. "So, if Jarrell can work his way back up to that level, I believe it will be interesting to see him in those elite fights as well.”

However, Joshua's workforce are much less eager on the thought. Matchroom Boxing chief Eddie Hearn insists he won't ever make a struggle between  Joshua and Miller once more after what occurred final time whereas the scenario is additional sophisticated by the truth that Hearn sought authorized motion in opposition to the drug cheat in 2022.

The British promoter claimed on the time that Miller nonetheless owed him cash that was paid to the American as an advance forward of his scheduled bout with Joshua. Speaking to the DAZN Boxing Show in July of final yr, he mentioned: “We paid him an advance but the clause in the contract which is you failing a drug test means you repay that advance. That will be dealt with legally in due time, but I like Jarrell. I was very fond of him and that’s why I fought so hard to not just give him a payday, it was a f****** monster payday to fight Joshua.

“I’m talking about millions, of millions, of millions of dollars. It just doesn’t sit well with me, what he did to try and beat, get an unfair physical advantage over Joshua.”

Besides Joshua, Wilder and Miller's proposed bouts there are a number of first rate scraps touted to happen on the identical evening. Rafael's report provides that Dmitry Bivol may defend his WBA light-heavyweight title in opposition to Richard Rivera on the undercard whereas Frank Sanchez vs Junior Fa can be in talks. Filip Hrgovic, Arslanbek Makhmudov and Jai Opetaia may even probably be in motion though their opponents haven't been reported as of but.