Povetkin/Ortiz and Parker are better than Wilder. In fact if you look across all boxing publications Wilder isn't even concensus number two.
People won’t pay to watch Wilder in sufficient numbers, whether it’s a ticket or a subscription! Heavyweight Title fights are driven by the finances that support them, I don’t like it but that’s the way it is. Wilder can’t get people to pay to watch him because he’s a nobody fighting nobodies until he changes that he can’t demand anything. Hearn offered him a way to change it and make $4 Million but Wilder chose to fight Stiverne for a packet of peanuts and a soda pop. Let that sink in!
Well, he did that once, right, against hall of famer? So, I'm sure it'll never end. The WBO, IBF and WBA will feed him nothing but Hall of Fame mandatories. I'm sure you're right. My mistake.
Wrong... He sold 90k against Wlad. And then 78k against Takam (Pulev). Nobody has heard of either of them yet he still sold out...
Joshua vs Pulev sold out the Principality stadium pretty quickly as well. That holds over 75k Twickenham is being lined up for the next bout. That holds over 80k. So one hall of famer, and 2 mandatories will have generated a crowd of roughly, 240k people for 3 fights. That's even before the Parker/Povetkin, Wilder, Fury fights have been added.
Non of those fighters are 'chained' to Hearn but they will realise that the most money to be made for them all is fighting Joshua in the UK. As long as Joshua keeps winning the stadium fights will keep on rolling.
For fights not on television, that's exactly right. If you claim to be a PPV star, though, and you make more on the gate, you're not the PPV star you think you are. If Joshua's PPVs are generating 10 million in sales, he's basically generating Golovkin-Lemieux PPV sales. And that was considered a disastrous PPV in the U.S. Better hope those stadium attendees don't decide to do something else when the mandos start arriving one after the other. I'm sure nothing can go wrong.
Joshua’s last 2 fights have attracted 90,000 at Wembley and 80,000 at Cardiff both were at full capacity with tickets selling out within minutes of being made available. What makes you think that’s going to stop or even diminish sufficiently to make Joshua and Hearn worry about Wilder. More people turned up at Wembley for an open training session featuring Joshua and Klitschko than turned up for Wilders fight.
Well, they're not fighting Wilder. And Tyson isn't fighting right now. So ... I'm sure nobody will grow tired of dreck about to roll in when the WBA, IBF and WBO start sending mandos Joshua's way. When Joshua drones on after one inept mando after another ... saying he can't do anything about it but keep buying those tickets and PPVs ... just let your eyes glaze over and imagine him saying This content is protected
I see only one champion being fed easy mandatories at the moment and it sure as hell isn't AJ or Parker. BTW, if AJ wanted to fight Stiverne tomorrow you do know that fight would sell out overnight don't you? I'm talking close to 80k again, that's the name value AJ is at the moment. I don't think you can understand that for some reason. AJ is a ****ing massive DRAW, whether you like it or not. PPV numbers don't generate 100+ million because we don't pay £70 for them, we're not sheep, nor idiots.
You can't say 80,000 people would buy Joshua-Stiverne tickets tomorrow, and then say you're not sheep or idiots. If you'd pay for Joshua-Stiverne tomorrow, and argue against Joshua and Wilder fighting, you're the biggest idiots who've ever bought a ticket. I actually don't believe British fans are idiots. Which is why I believe they're going to wake up soon enough and realize Hearn really screwed this up, and paying for PPVs and buying tickets to garbage mandatory fights, with no end in sight, was kind of a bad call. But go ahead and get in line for Joshua-Stiverne tickets. (Christ) Gotta go.