Correct. There's a window in which to do this while Whyte stupidly takes on the WBC to cement his mandatory position after his 1-win streak. The WBC will play along anyway - unification trumps everything. Whyte should be guaranteed the winner of the subsequent fight and get a few quid to be quiet. Or fight Joshua for a fortune over the right to go next (not that this is ever going to happen like).
Whilst big AJ is a mentally shot fighter and gets obliterated by the top three, he still has enough about him to hang with a predictable division two plodder like Whyteleafe. Unclear whether big josh has that killer instinct any more which took out shot old pulev, the retired old ghost of shot VLAD, and shot old alec povetkin, but Whyteleafe has a glass jaw and no head movement @Malik Shabazz so AJ should still have enough to land one clean and put him away inside the distance. Decent enough all brit non title fight, I'd put money on Joshua KO if the odds were evens or better.
This didn't age well. I think the WBC were told by there legal team that Whyte has an extremely good case and arbitration was too much of a risk. Glad the WBC saw sense as mandatory defences are important and you can't have a champion avoiding those. Unification does come first but that's not the case here as there is no unification fight. Usuyk is scheduled to fight AJ. The WBC can't hang about waiting to see if AJ steps aside. They need to call there own mandatory and get things moving rather than waiting on a unification fight that may or may not happen. The fact you said Whyte should be promised the winner of a Fury v usuyk fight is the reason AJ would not step aside. AJ can't wait for that long and Whyte also wouldn't let AJ go ahead of him. While Warren tried to talk about AJ stepping aside this was never realistic as long as Whyte was fighting for his mandatory position. It was just to messy to satisfy everyone.
AJ has not been involved in any step aside talks. Usyk’s team had simply approached Hearn about the possibility of it as an option. Although Usyk v Fury for undisputed now seems dead in the water with Fury v Whyte having been called by the WBC and the pair having 30 days to agree a deal.
Any word on a new trainer for AJ? Is he planning to go straight in with the rematch and try to blast usyk out? I give a 10% chance of winning if that’s the plan
Joshua is worth hundreds of millions. He doesn’t want to fight either one of them for money. It’s for legacy. If he takes on Usyk or Fury he’s the underdog but he wants to do it so fair play to him. I have no problem with someone who wants to be the best and beat the best. The likes of Wilder however with his record of facing bum after bum need calling out.
He does want to be the best but he gets mega money for fighting those guys. If he never he would not fight them. His teams talking abiyt getting him big £s fir step aside. Thats not about legacy that's about money.
But why not pay Whyte to step aside too? If anything, Whyte should be easier to pay off than Joshua, and much cheaper.
His loot haul is unprecedented yet they cannot get enough. Unfortunately for Joshua, the fight people will always remember as his legacy fight was being battered by the little fat blob all over New York. Looks like he is grabbing as much loot as possible before his next defeat and most likely retirement. Anyone being offered £20m step aside money with a guaranteed crack at the winner must take that loot.
There is no £20 mil to step aside. Any fighter would take such an offer but that isn't happening. £20 mil would be more than what Fury and Usyuk would get paid to fight each other.
Why is Whyte going to step aside? His gone through all this drama with the WBC and finally gets his mandatory shot only to wait again. I just can't see it. Not to mention Whyte gets the winner or would AJ get the winner? How would you solve that problem? Nobody is stepping aside and it's far easier having Fury vs Whyte and Usyuk vs AJ and then the winners can fight each other. That is far simpler than trying to pay two fighters off.
