Joshua should travel for wilder

Discussion in 'World Boxing Forum' started by conkers, Dec 10, 2018.


  1. de Morhalle

    de Morhalle Member Full Member

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    They never even sold out even when handing out free tickets . They sold around 9,000 tops gave away something close to 10, 000 and even then the Staples center holds 22,000 there was roughly 19,500 fight night.
     
  2. Puroresu_Fan

    Puroresu_Fan Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    17k. I heard ranello say 17k in commentary
     
  3. Kingmaffe

    Kingmaffe Active Member Full Member

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    Just stop it with these $50 million remarks. It makes you look foolish and contradicts everything that was said in the Wilder-Fury build up.

    It was supposedly the “biggest HW clash in years” and the “best that can be made”. Yet, they didn’t even get close to making 50 million combined.
     
  4. Red Hulk40

    Red Hulk40 Member Full Member

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    Previous British boxers have traveled to USA to fight, Bruno and Lennox Lewis are two , i would love to see Joshua fight in Las Vegas to be honest I'm getting bored with the UK fights and nothing beats the excitement and atmosphere of Las Vegas.
     
  5. Heavy_Hitter

    Heavy_Hitter Boxing Addict Full Member

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    After such fights as Ward Kovalev 1, Canelo GGG 1, Canelo GGG 2, Fury Wilder, there's no way AJ fights in US.
     
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  6. DonTyson

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    AJ and Hearn would rightly be concered about favourable decisions. However, I don’t see this going 12 anyway. It’s a matter of who lands the knockout blow first, so the judges are out of play. Far less risky for AJ to go there than for Fury in a rematch.
     
  7. Serge

    Serge Ginger Dracula Staff Member

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    Not counting the robbery win over Fury the other week, Donkey sold a combined 54,000 tickets for his last 4 fights (I rounded that up to 54,000 because it's the festive season)

    I don't know how many he sold (or rather Fury sold) for his last one but I've heard 17,000 banded about, albeit some of them were comp, so let's just go with that figure for now

    That makes it 71,000 for 5 fights

    AJ sold over 323,000 for his last 4 fights
     
  8. gmurphy

    gmurphy Land of the corrupt, home of the robbery! banned Full Member

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    I miss a good last vegas robbery, id love to see the look on Joshua's face when wilder is getting carted away on a stretcher and they still announce him the winner.
    While armies of americans tell us it was a close fight that could have gone either way
     
  9. Wasteman

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    Not really a Joshua fan either but I agree with the above statement 100%

    Moreover, Wilder must know there's no way he can 'legitmately' beat Joshua on points, regardless of where they fight BUT as for winning illegitimately? The quite frankly scandalous scoring of the the Fury fight sufficiently illustrates the risk to AJ's legacy were to agree to fight Wilder in the US (and I'm not saying British officials are any less corrupt for the most part either but that isn't a factor within the context of this fight because, let's be honest, Wilder on this best night isn't going to beat AJ on points.) So, in conclusion, the only way Deontay wins, apart from corrupt judging, is by landing that big right of his and IMO, if he really believes in his ability to land that punch on AJ as much as he says, then he should come to England, earn a career high payday and knock AJ out already.
     
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  10. Brighton bomber

    Brighton bomber Loyal Member Full Member

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    I'm not opposed to Joshua fighting Wilder in the US as long as the card is at the very least a Hearn co promoted Matchroom event on DAZN. We've seen enough dodgy scorecards with Wilder and PBC in recent fights that this should be a requirement if Joshua fights in the US.
     
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