You can argue about who ducked who (personally I believe AJ ducked Wilder), but even those who were adamant that Joshua's team wanted that fight can now see there is no way they would let him in with Wilder anytime soon. He's since been sparked by a fatso. He's dropped a lot of muscle as a result. He's working on a new style of boxing that's gonna take time. He looked to frightenly stiffen up anytime Ruiz got close to him on the inside in the rematch. Wilder is a no go.
I don't understand. I thought they've already pretty much stated it's Pulev and Usyk next? Only fights twice a year.
I don't think its been as straightforward as Joshua ducked Wilder or Wilder ducked Joshua. The fight never materialised because of greed, egos and boxing politics IMO. Now that Joshua has an L and showed massive vulnerabilities in that fight, they're bound to be more cautious with Joshua, and as flawed as he may be, Wilder is too risky, because if Wilder beats him, they know it'll be by spectacular KTFO and very damaging for team/brand AJ. If they both keep winning then the demand for this fight will be massive again, and should eventually happen. What I can see happening though is for Joshua's side to drag it out as long as they can, and with only 2 fights a year it'd be possible to drag it out over a few years when Wilder will be 36-37 and that might be what their strategy is now, wait for old father time to get to Wilder first.
Fast Eddie learned fast from Bobby Arum............for years and years he used Mayweather as a marketing ploy to promote Pacman despite having zero intent to make the fight and of course claiming that Mayweather is "ducking"........when the fight eventually got made mayweather had tougher sparring matched then the actual fight. But the Dazn/Matchroom/AJ groupies gonna lap it up like ice cream.....after all they are not Boxing fans, they are fans of a particular fighter and it pains me to say it, they even worse than those Pacman nut riders.................there is a thread on the General that Pacman would have a easy night with Hagler and would KO Hearns...... THis is no win fight for AJ IMO.........he just quit aginst a non ranked fat nobody who is NOT a BIG puncher, full stop, needed a football field and track shoes to win a re match with a even fatter and zero training Ruiz...... In other words, he cannot go toe to toe because he is packing glass it it is crystal clear that he knows it too otherwise he would have blasted the obese blob out in the re match .......going on a track meet against Wilder plays right into Wilders hands to get full extension on the right behind that sneaky blind jab before..... If and that is a big if that fight ever gets made it will be a big let down, this has dull fight before the one punch KO loss for AJ written all over it. But but but AJ makes sooooo much money.......like you saps ever gonna see a nickel from that ever.
Wilder is 34 years old with over 40 fights and he's fought nobody. So what's the chances of him starting now. He will duck AJ and whyte until he retires
He doesn't mention Wilder by name in the tweet only undisputed. Benson mentioned Wilder. He knows full well Wilder is scheduled to fight Fury so I'm sure his intention is to face the winner. They need to make it after the Pulev fight or vacate the WBO because I don't think they want any part of Usyk. Once Usyk has the WBO it wont be easy to get back and the WBO will make an exception only for a unification.
They made a mistake with Andy and it was only due to his lack of discipline that they got away with it. I remember prior to Miller AJ was asking Eddie why he couldn't stay in the UK and Eddie told him because that's (the US) where the money is. If AJ really wanted Wilder and had any say in matters then he would go for it. I doubt he has any say whatsoever and does what Barry and Eddie tell him. Barry won't be making any more mistakes until they have wrung every drop out of Joshua and then they can throw him to Wilder. AJ is just a product of Matchroom.
And all does not seem well with that relationship. Seems AJ was either too tired or did not want to give Eddie a hug: This content is protected