I agree he should of took the money, when a big check comes you should take it but he chased the legacy fight probably to silence the critics and it backfired on him.
Guess after many bitterly dissapointing failures he managed to get it right and finally successfully did himself in.
Stiverne is his mandatory. He took step-aside for Ortiz, not for “whoever Wilder happens to fight next.” Once that fell apart after Ortiz failed a drug test, it had to be Stiverne. How is Whyte someone to be ducked? He has one halfway meaningful win over a shopworn journeyman, Chisora. AJ is the one saying “I don’t want to fight this guy before 2020 becaues he has more experience than me.” People can evade or dismiss anything they want, but that’s what AJ himself said. There’s no getting around that he admitted that he plans to duck Wilder. Period.