Dec 23rd - What fight are you looking forward to most?

That makes sense, give him a pass! Lyndon looks ridiculous

 

Do we have estimated ringwalk times for UK yet please?

 

Just bought the PPV on Sky Glass - took a bit of finding - and it has the start time as 4pm running for 11 hours! Surely a mistake...

I've read 9pm UK time for Wilder and then Joshua straight after. Good times for once.

 

Dam . Was hoping it would be later.

 

Could be. Would explain why he looks so lost if that was true. Wouldn’t be much fun awaiting instruction in your ear for the correct things to say.

He’s made plenty of money, just retire already AJ. Decent chance he loses on Saturday anyway. We know Wallin doesn’t have a stamina issue so it could be a long night for Joshua.

 

Every fighter up there takes questions from warren and little dev sahni then AJ has to have his scripted questions from his promoter then he decides to go off script.

Hearns Jr to AJ: “Wallin says you look tense , you’re probably the most relaxed I’ve ever seen you”

AJ: “of course I’m tense, it’s fight week”

Hearns tries to control the narrative and doesn’t trust handing over the controls of his chinny robot to anyone else.

I heard some chatter at the post office today that Hearns REFUSED to attend the presser unless he got to introduce AJ and give his “Molina takam Parker Martin” spiel.

Warren said no chance, then Hearns threatened to pull AJ from the card. Looks like he got his own way…

 

I’d be shocked if it’s that early. Don’t think we’ve ever had a Saudi main event start before 11pm our time have we?

 

AJ has done this for years. In his Sky fights he would grab the microphone off the interviewer after being asked a question, and make his own little speech instead. Whoever suggested or taught him to be like that needs their head examined.

As much as I doubt that story, I can't think of a more manipulated fighter than AJ down the years. The whole selective media narrative, hiding behind "everyone wants to speak to him so we protect his time" instead of the fact they want to control everything around him, does my head in. As @Sonny1 says above, if being famous bothers you, stop doing the things that make you famous.

 

If true that is so petty and pathetic of Hearn. He has been gifted an opportunity here and should be grateful. Being honest if AJ is to lose and lose badly on Saturday MR don’t have much of a stable left. They have good fighters like Bivol currently under contract for a couple of fights, but not much more.

 

I keep thinking about the history of Matchroom and how it's expanded sports like snooker and darts, around "names" and stories, of which only a handful ever sold any tickets. But on the other hand, the darts and snooker circuits cheaply fill TV schedules for a lot of global sports broadcasters.

They're doing the same with DAZN and a decent enough roster but without many big names or big sellers.

 

Hearn works for AJ Wig

I know it's Xmas but slow down on the Johnny Walker mate

 

I’m not so sure this is going end smelling of roses for them with DAZN though. They are getting paid for now and paid well, but no one watches that channel and with no big stars on the horizon, how long can that honestly last. Talk of Olympic boxing potentially stopping also does not help anyone in the games cause for upcoming talent already known to the public.

 

early undercard is due to kick off at around 4pm GMT, with the main portion from 7pm GMT.

Joshua-Wallin ring walks are expected at approximately 11:45pm GMT, with Wilder-Parker ring walks slated for around 10:35pm GMT.

As always though, those timings are all approximate and subject to change

 

Poor decision to have the Joshua fight as the final one imo. Can see that being rather cagey and dull potentially whereas I think Wilder Parker will be action packed so might be a bit of a comedown.

 

Does anyone else find Dev Sahni overly irritating? No idea how he's getting these gigs as he's a dreadful host and has terrible flow with his questions.