SAUDI ARABIA’S minister of entertainment has requested a reduced pay-per-view price for the blockbuster “Day of Reckoning” fight card.

Both Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder are set to appear at the blockbuster boxing event later this month.

The Kingdom Arena in Riyadh will host Wilder’s bout with Joseph Parker before Joshua faces Otto Wallin in the main event.

Daniel Dubois also returns to the ring against Jarrell Miller along with Dmitrii Bivol’s latest WBA super light heavyweight title defence.

Unbeaten duo Jai Opetaia and Filip Hrgovic are also scheduled to fight on the card.

Despite the star-studded line-up, though, minister of entertainment Turki Alalshikh is keen for broadcasters to offer “exceptional value” with their pricing.

He has called for the PPV to be priced at just £19.99 in the United Kingdom.

Writing on X, formerly Twitter, he explained: “We are proud to be hosting one of the most exciting nights of boxing that has ever been seen. Every single fight on this card could be the headliner!

“We want all boxing fans to be able to join this evening with us, so we have requested that all of our broadcast partners reduce the Pay per view to these prices to offer exceptional value for the fans. US + Canada: 39.99 USD. UK: 19.99 GBP. Rest of the World: 21.99 USD.”

His calls come after fans in the USA were forced to pay $80 to watch Tyson Fury’s win over Francis Ngannou back in October.

Meanwhile, UK fans were able to catch the super fight, which was also held in Saudi Arabia, for £21.95.

Alalshikh has been the mastermind behind a series of events being held as part of Riyadh Season.

Both the “Day of Reckoning” card and Fury vs Ngannou are tied in with the festival.

A number of sporting events are scheduled to take place into early 2024, including Fury’s undisputed heavyweight title bout with Oleksandr Usyk on February 17.

Deontay Wilder simply thinks Anthony Joshua is a manufactured talent.

In an interview with Brian Custer on The Last Stand Podcast, the heavy hitter from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, accused London’s Joshua of bamboozling the boxing public by making it seem he is more popular than he actually is.

The comments come only a few weeks after both shared the stage at a press conference for separate scheduled fights on the Dec. 23 card in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Joshua will take on Otto Wallin in the main event, while Wilder is set to face off against Joseph Parker.

Both Joshua and Wilder were generally cordial towards each other at the press conference, and Wilder even seemed to have patched up his thorny relationship with Joshua’s longtime promoter, Eddie Hearn.

But that goodwill seems to have run its course.

In the interview with Custer, Wilder accused Joshua of running a ticket scheme to put on the illusion that his fights are sellouts. Joshua is one the biggest sporting stars in his native England and routinely fills stadiums for his fights.

“I’ve said it many times before, and I’ll say it again: it’s a difference between champions being born and being made,” Wilder said. “And Joshua was made, you understand me? He was a made fighter. They bought things, they gave him things. Even with certain things, with the arena. ‘Oh, they sold this.’ No! Y’all didn’t sell out nothin’. Y’all comped tickets and y’all resold them.

“I know how the whole game works, bro. I’m behind scenes. I know how things work. You wanted it to seem like it sold out, you put your tickets out there, and you build your own little ticket thing and you buy all your tickets. Now it seems like you sold out the arena. And what you do? All you do is put it back on the market and resell it.”

“It’s one of the oldest tricks in the book, when it comes to the business,” Wilder continued. “And now people on the outside looking in, ‘Oh my God, they sold out faster than Michael f—— J[ackson].’ Are you serious? That’s how it is. That’s how the trick is done.”

There is high expectation that Wilder and Joshua will finally meet in the ring next year should they be victorious in their respective fights on Dec. 23.

Deontay Wilder has identified one key difference between himse;f and rival Anthony Joshua ahead of their match-ups on the same card.

Although these two big-hitting heavyweights have not yet fought each other, there has long been animosity between them.

Both are former world champions who held belts at the same time for a number of years, but they never managed to sign for a unification fight with each blaming the other for the break down in negotiations.

On December 23 in Saudi Arabia, they will come closer than ever, fighting on the same huge card. Wilder is set to face Joseph Parker, and Joshua squares off with Otto Wallin.

Should both win, the WBC has said they could well be told to fight each other in order to sort out a mandatory challenger to the winner of the undisputed fight between Oleksandr Usyk and Tyson Fury on February 17.

Speaking on The Last Stand, Wilder was as confident as ever, claiming that ‘AJ’ wasn’t a. true champion because he was carefully moved through the ranks.

He went on to speculate about Joshua getting advantages on the way up that he never had.

Wilder claimed this week that no matter the outcome of Joshua’s fight with Wallin, he will fight him anyway.

Heavyweight contender Otto Wallin is very confident of pulling off a shocking upset over former two-time world champion Anthony Joshua.

Their fight will headline a big card on December 23rd in Saudi Arabia.

In the co-feature, Deontay Wilder will battle Joseph Parker in a showdown of former champions.

Should Joshua and Wilder both prevail, there is a good possibility of them colliding in 2024.

However, Wallin believes Wilder has a very dangerous fight on his hands as well. Wilder has not been very active, with only a single round of action since 2021. Parker will be taking part in his fourth fight of the year.

While some view Wallin as a legit threat in the fight, former super middleweight champ Carl Froch is not in favor of the match. He would have much rather seen Joshua and Wilder skip the interim-bouts and go immediately to their showdown.

“Carl is going to be disappointed when AJ loses. I understand where Carl Froch is coming from. They want to see Deontay Wilder and AJ, which would be a really big fight, but I’m really excited about this fight. That’s all that matters. Me, my team, my family, we are all really excited,” Wallin told Vegas Insider.

“When AJ loses, the Wilder fight is not going to be as big. Who knows with the Wilder vs. Joseph Parker fight? That’s also a good fight. Parker has been staying active, while Wilder hasn’t. That’s a good fight and not an easy fight for Wilder.

“Imagine if both Wilder and AJ lose; obviously, they can still fight each other, but it won’t be as big of a fight.