Deontay Wilder to fight Luis Ortiz in fall as Joshua showdown remains on hold

• Wilder reveals he’s signed deal for rematch with Cuban in fall
• WBC champ is coming off first-round KO of Dominic Breazeale

The long-awaited title unification fight between Deontay Wilder and Anthony Joshua won’t be happening in 2019.

Wilder, the heavy-handed Alabaman who’s held the WBC’s version of the fractured heavyweight championship since 2015, announced Tuesday evening that he’s signed a contract to fight a rematch with Cuban slugger Luis Ortiz in the fall, dashing all short-term hopes for the hotly anticipated four-belt summit meeting with Joshua only four days before the Briton defends his WBA, WBO and IBF titles against Andy Ruiz Jr at Madison Square Garden.

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