Joshua ''I Won't Sell My Soul For 50 million. I'm Not Here To Sell My Belts'' Confirmed Duck

- "You can't talk about finances anymore because I'm well aware there is financial gain in this fight. So, let's put that aside and look at the devil in the detail.

- ''I won't sell my Soul for 50 million''

- You can't just offer me a buy-out clause. I'm not here to sell my belts, let you take control of the event - that's not what I'm about

- Let's build this fight to its true potential," Joshua said. "I want the fight in the UK and they want it in America.

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Just let those bolded word's sink in for a moment. And lets recall the previous interview from Joshua with Skysports

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- "If it is a $100 million fight and they are happy with taking 60-40, I'll take 50-50. Give me $50 million dollars up front and I swear I'll take that fight tomorrow,"

He swears he'll take it the following day if they offered 50 million. How long ago was the offered made? And now he's talking about selling souls as if he's Dr Faust being tempted by Mephistopheles. I challenge anyone to tell me why you would he ask for 50 million dollars to fight and then turn around and say that you are selling your soul if you were to accept?

Do you really believe he'd be saying this nonsense if Big Baby Miller was offering 50 million to fight him in the states? There is no doubt that this watered down fraud would have no problems accepting a fight against an opponent that didn't stand a chance.

Besides that I think it's about time we finally put the ''Wilder and his team need to show real proof of finances'' to bed. Joshua knows the deal is real. Not to mention Al Haymon, the advisor of advisors, the promoter of promoters and the Boss of Bossses, has already informed Hearn in no uncertain terms that the money is in the bag.

So what is the hold up? As you can see Joshua is scared to death of Wilder. Always has been and his latest interview reinforces it. Just 7 months ago he has said he will listen to his coach as to when the time is right to fight Wilder, he won't rush his career and how unfair it is because Wilder has had more fights..

''If Wilder works we’re going to make it happen in 2018, if Wilder isn’t the right opponent for next year, then we’ll put it back into 2019.

I’ve got a career I need to map it out, I’m going to take fights at the right time for me and if it’s next year or the year after or the year after when I fight him I’ll be in a position to beat him.”

"I started boxing 2010, Wilder turned pro 2009, so he’s been a pro one year longer than my whole career.''

“The fights are there, but as I say I’m going to do it in my own time when I feel ready."

As I say the fighter on my shoulder says let’s rock and roll the coach on my shoulder says ‘you know what Josh, you need to just work on a few more things before you take a fight like that.''

"Because when it’s all said and done, all that matters is that win, not the fact that people say ‘he didn’t fight him here and he didn’t fight him there’.

But I’m just going to do things my way, people just can’t rush my career, that’s what I’ve learnt.''

He said all these things with no shame whilst Nelson the interviewer was rubbing his face indicating to Joshua with the expression ''hmm mabe you shouldn't be saying this, you might want to be quiet, this isn't a good look''

Today it's about not selling his titles. An admission that by agreeing to fight, he will be doing a Charles Martin and selling his belts to the superior fighter

And then there is the comment about not allowing another party to take control of the event. Which is basically an admission that this paper champ isn't confident unless he is fighting on home soil, with hand picked referees that can't speak english to the opposition and hand picked judges who will have already scored the fight before the bell rings. Joshua needs the fight to be fixed before he has any confidence in agreeing to a fight

Lastly he paints the picture of needing to ''build'' the fight. And we know what that means - another jobber in line for Joshua to knock out in his next fight to milk his brand some more. Because that's what this is all is, a brand not a fighter. A gimmick

The Hearn family scamming the British public since 1987 are now pretending this guy isn't a cash cow being milked for the farm masters of the field.

 

They didn't agree to the meeting because Hearn was being a dickhead insinuating that Wilder and his team couldn't finance the fight.

All he had to do was agree in principle to the deal and further talks would be arranged.

Lets say you have a house for sale. A potential buyer comes and matches the asking price.

You don't then say ''please provide proof of earnings, date of when you received funds, bank statements etc'' as if you're dealing with the children of the poor. The other party would rightly turn their back and tell them to either accept the offer before proceeding to talk about contract, or get lost.

 

It's standard practice in boxing. Nothing out of the ordinary.

Hearn used his sly ways to convince the public that all of this was/is complicated.

From Wilder needing to establish himself as a name in the uk(even though most british boxing fans talk more about Wilder than those in the states) to needing to build the fight up as if these two of the top HW champions are two unknowns, to Wilder needing to go through Whyte, to then suggesting they offer 50 million. And then suggesting they release information regarding date, venue and proof of funds.

Wilder called their bluff and they've finally been checkmated on all terms.

They could have had the fight in the uk if they offered the 60/40 split but instead they wished to act like they were the only big time charlies in town, believing they were the only promotion capable of staging big events and Wilder should be happy with a set fee of 12 million which they knew he would likely refuse. They failed to remember that Las Vagas brings in a far higher percentage of ppv earnings than any British fight in history.