Wilder vs Breazeale Joshua vs Ruiz Fury vs Schwarz Wilder vs Ortiz Joshua vs Pulev Fury vs another bum tbc. Embarrassing. Fury pulling out of a mandatory Wilder rematch, Fury pulling out of a Whyte fight for the WBC Diamond belt, Wilder still ducking Joshua AND Whyte. It’s a joke.
Completely farcical. Whyte vs Rivas looking like the best fight on paper. The thought of AJ vs Pulev nearly brings me to tears. Wilder trying to make the first Ortiz fight sound like unfinished business and controversial just so he can avoid AJ is truly pathetic. He dropped a very overrated tired old man three times before stopping him, he is now fighting that same old man but only older... embarrassing.
Cheer up man you already got one blockbuster heavyweight fight this year, Charles Martin vs Gregory Corbin. What else can a fight fan want?
Imagine a world where the top 3 fight each other every year. Now take that imagination and stab it with a pencil. Then throw it down a hill into a pit of lava and stand back while an asteroid hits it. Then replay wilders entrance to the breazeale fight.
Remember when people here on this very forum proclaimed that with the defeat of Klitschko finally the HW division will see big top 3 fights made regularly, no more slave contracts, no more politics? History does not repeat but it rhymes.
The problem is Wlad was the man and earned it by fighting top 10 contenders for years. These three don’t always do that and avoid each other. So we have no king, just three jacks. Joshua needs a match with either Fury or Wilder.
Being a kiwi I follow joe Parker, this weekend he is going to say who he has signed with, I wonder if he will announce his next fight at the same time? Probably be Eric molina
Both are well rested. They've been resting up absolutely as much as possible for this fight which may or may not happen some time in the future.
Unfortunately the current climate dictates that the fighters are content with one belt or happy to be ko'd for a nice some of money in fighting for a belt. The prestige of the belts has dived and the pride of being the best is no more. It's a money game now.
When it became apparent how much the TV networks were willing to pay the "big 3" it basically wrote off heavyweight boxing for 2019. -Wilder wants a few more zeros in the bank before facing Joshua or Fury again (who he now realises isn't a joke). -Fury wants a few more zeros in the bank before facing Joshua or Wilder again (who he now realises can catch him). -Joshua has the zeros in the bank and is guaranteed a lot more. He would fight Wilder this year, but not Fury who is seen as too high risk before the undisputed fight. So there you have it. Out of every combination we have Joshua willing to face Wilder this year but Wilder doesn't want it yet - and that's it. See you all in 2020.
I feel for AJ having to get motivated for the Pulev IBF mandatory simply because Wilder and Fury are both ducking. Wilder fighting an OAP he’s already KTFO and the walking contradiction that is Fury defending the lineal heavyweight title against a proper bum dosser who he’ll big up as a worthy challenger. No way he fights Whyte.
Don't forget Whyte turning down £5 million or more to face Joshua for 3 belts and avenge the defeat, the fight he was apparently chasing for 3 years ! And Jarrell Miller deserves a mention.
