As long as Wilder bends over and admits he is the B Side i am all for the fight. As soon as Wilder and his fan boys act out i say stall them and bring them to their knees to punish them. Wilder fans are the type of people that would eat their own offspring at even a hint of a drought.
I am going to be honest,,, ,,,,, i tracked Blizzy down a few months ago and beat the crap out of him for posting pro-Wilder repeatedly. I gave him warnings but he refused to heed them. Thus i forced a irreversible prolapse upon him and he hasnt posted since. Not giving any orders but maybe ease up on the Pro Wilder feelings if you ever want to see Blizzy around these parts again.
This. Look at all the threads created about who was ducking who at MW just weeks ago. Fans have the patience of a 7yo on Christmas Eve.
I try to get angry on the internet, I've even been on an anger mismanagement course to try at least raise my heartbeat by a couple, but I just don't know how to do it. So I'll leave that to you bro....
Apparently, the holdup is Eddie Hearn wants to televise the fight in the U.S. on DAZN, his new streaming service. And Wilder has a contract with Showtime, and Showtime PPV wants this fight. Showtime also has its own streaming service. So Showtime doesn't want to lose the fight or split the money for the biggest heavyweight fight in more than a decade with a streaming service that hasn't even launched in the country yet. So Hearn is screwing this up with the streaming deal he signed about two weeks ago. He knows Wilder has a deal with Showtime. He knows Showtime has televised Joshua's last three fights. He knows Showtime has millions of subscribers and wants to televise the fight on PPV. But Hearn wants Wilder to agree to fight on DAZN, which no one in the U.S. even has at the moment. So Hearn threw a giant wrench in the plans. Basically.
Does it matter where they fight on tv? Hell, no one in the US knows who the **** Windmills is anyways, stop making this out to be some big issue. They will hopefully figure it out, especially the one's in charge of the money. You know, the one paying the other guy and stuff. I tend to think he has a say in it.
It matters where they fight on TV if no in the U.S. has the service and Wilder already has a signed contract with Showtime. Basically, they're asking Wilder to break his deal with Showtime and get sued, and sign a deal with a network that doesn't EXIST in the U.S. at the moment. Or they want Wilder and Finkel to ask Showtime to SHARE the fight, and Showtime's Espinoza has already rolled his eyes at the thought of that. Showtime has 27 million subscribers in the U.S. DAZN has zero in the U.S.
So... what happened to the money that Wilder said he had then? If team Windmills wanted to control those aspects they could have when they made their offer. Anyways, this is all BS, the networks are not suing anybody... its a terrible precedent. The business of boxing is one of contractors, ie. its par for the course. They will bend as they always do in the name of greed.
What are you talking about? Joshua wanted $50 Million. Wilder and his team offered Joshua $50 million, and Hearn confirmed it was legit. The fight would be shown in the U.S. on Showtime PPV. Hearn and Joshua wanted the fight to be held in the UK, Wilder agreed. Now Hearn wants to stream the fight in the U.S. on his new network that doesn't exist here yet, and Wilder has a contract with Showtime. Hearn knows this, because Joshua's fights are on Showtime in the U.S., too. Hearn knows Wilder can't agree to that or he'll be sued by Showtime. Nobody gets sued if Hearn just allows Showtime to stream the PPV in the U.S. But it's not about making Wilder-Joshua, it's about Hearn launching his new streaming network. That's it. That's the holdup.
Don't you think if Wilder believes he is the A side that might be what could be stalling things. I mean if he's not willing to accept what comes with being the B side.
They've already discussed the Hearn-DAZN-Showtime holdup on Twitter. Hearn wants DAZN to stream it. Espinoza at Showtime says no, Showtime will stream in the US. A large number of Showtime's subscribers only have their streaming service. Showtime doesn't want to share a fight they've been helping to build with a network that doesn't exist here yet and will be a direct competitor against them when it does. It's a dealbreaker and Hearn knows it. That's why, after everything was basically agreed to, Hearn sent a contract with that little tidbit in it last week and now won't write or call anyone back. He just wants them to sign.