Well, if no one cares about Wilder, no one will ever give a **** about another opponent AJ ever fights, as that is by far the most exciting fight in the division, so i don't get your point. Oh we're back to Fury/Wilder won't happen....i know how this ends.
Was Eddie Hearns quote. And AJ was offered a $50M guarantee, after asking for exactly that, and turned it down, as confirmed by Barry Hearn himself. As i say, BOTH AS BAD AS EACH OTHER
Hearn never confirmed the $100m that was leaked from the Wilder side. It’s was offered directly by DAZN and had nothing to do with Hearn. Wilder never denied it. the wilder offer was a personal email with no contract, info or guarantees. You have one opinion, I have another but I’m pretty sure the World believe that Wilder ducked by not taking that deal.
Rob McCracken has never even entertained the Wilder question. He always puts Wilder at arms length; "first we'll do this, this and this and then we'll look at Wilder" - I think he hates the idea of a Wilder fight and I don't blame him. It's a bad matchup for AJ. If he uses the Ruiz2 tactics Wilder will eventually clip him. If he has a shootout, Wilder will likely come out the better. I think Wilder and Fury beat AJ. I'm sure of it. However, AJ is the most willing of the three to stack his resume.
If you turn down a 3 fight deal for $100m which includes getting paid double what did get for fighting Brezeale then he clearly has no interest in making the fight at all. How anyone can see it any other way is pure rose tinted classes.
Footballers normally get pay rises from their club because they’ve been approached by another club. I reckon Showtime would have appeased Wilder with some figures that was enough to convince him to stay where he was. I don’t buy this theory that Wilder ducked anyone nor am I suggesting Joshua has, but I reckon there’s been some ego talking from both sides that’s prevented the fight from happening because both fella’s believe they can knock the other out.
Considering Wilders reported highest purse is $20m for Ortiz in the last fight and he was offered that just to fight Brezeale on DAZN plus $40m for each of the two fights and the chance not just to unify (which he has failed to attempt to do whilst AJ did) but be the undisputed Champion inthe divison just appears that Wilder's team have no interest in the fight due to lack of faith in their fighter. Wilder is 34, times not on Wilders side to keep delaying to obtain more money (that's if he is delaying and just not dismmissing the fight entirely).
Because these days it doesn’t really matter whether non PPV fights like that are on either BT or Sky when it comes to drumming up interest for future fights. Both Sky and BT upload the full fights within hours so the whole world sees it regardless, so why would BT spend unnecessary money?
Eddie Hearn is a scumbag, like all promoters. That's just the facts. The lies they come out with, on par with politicians. He will now pretend they want the Wilder, which they don't. TBH I don't blame them, why would they? Eddie can continue to pimp Josh, put him in there with ****ing milkmen and make millions. But what gets to me is the smugness and bare-faced lies, deceiving people. Eddie was like a dam groupie, cat got the cream after the winning result was announced. Listen i have nothing against the man, he does something he loves and makes a hell of a lot of money for it. But.....he is a ****. Wilder would lay the kid out cold, we all know that. So why the heck would Eddie put RoboJosh in there? That would be dam stupid. I guarantee you now they have entered the Middle East market they will avoid USA like the plague. They don't want to return to the scene where nightmares occurred.
I do not know how many times this needs repeating. Anthony Joshua fights who he wants to fight. The idea that a Global Superstar, a sports icon is dictated too by Eddie Hearn is beyond stupid. AJ could easily walk away from Matchroom if he wasnt happy so lets stop this nonsense that Eddie Hearn calls all the shots. No different to Golden Boy and Canelo. Golden Boy would love to make Canelo v GGG 3 but guess what Golden Boy do not decide whether that takes place. Canelo decides.