DAZN’s $100m offer

I don’t see where the source of the money is in every story on Hearns’ offers or purses of fighters who fight for him.

Why does it matter where the money was coming from? As long as it’s there and you get paid.

 

Well when Joshua is signed to an exclusive £100M deal to Sky Sports for 3 years or his next 5 fights - it does make a difference. So BT Sport's involvement by offering to finance the deal is something that puts Joshua into legal trouble with his broadcaster if he accpeted the fight. It's basic business sense bro - AJ cannot fight on a rival network in the UK. Warren confirmed that BT wanted to showcase the fight on their network - so that alone debunks the whole 50M deal.

 

Every contract has a ‘divorce’ clause. And he could have opted not to sign an exclusive deal if he wanted to be free to take the biggest fights.

 

BT sport were never financing the deal. Wilder’s team simply held discussions with BT and Frank Warren to get benchmarking for the estimated PPV revenue a Wilder-AJ fight could generate in the UK. That’s all. There was no confirmation that BT were financing any deal and having the fight on BT was not a caveat in the $50m offer.

Jesus the Matchroom bumsquad will try to bend facts to justify Joshua turning down the offer. Barry Hearn has confirmed on more than one occasion that the offer was legit and that his side turned down the offer. He literally tweeted after Fury-Wilder that “Joshua was right to turn down the 50 mil”.