Luis Ortiz is out

Is Stephen Espinoza lying aswell then?

 

Bryant Jennings had a deal with ESPN and Top Rank. Dillian Whyte and Oscar Rivas don't. Whyte has a deal with Matchroom. And Rivas just signed with Matchroom for this fight.

It's on DAZN. It's on the DAZN schedule.

Doesn't matter now anyway.

Looks like Joshua vs Rolls, I mean Ruiz. Same thing.

 

Get used to the weight? Usyk has entered the ring at more than 200 pounds for every professional fight he's had this decade. Usyk weighs more than Wilder when he fights.

It's complete and utter garbage.

What's he going to weigh for Takam? 250?

He's going to weigh between 210-215, like he always does when he steps in the ring on fight night. Like EVERY "CRUISERWEIGHT" does 36 hours after their weigh ins.

 

GGG-Rolls and Joshua-Ruiz.

What a joke.

Anthony Joshua took off nine months to come back to fight Andy Ruiz? Unbelievable.

Joshua-Usyk at MSG. Two all-timers at the Mecca of Boxing. Boxing's heavyweight resurgence continues. Eddie Hearn is a hero. Joshua and Usyk are seen by the WORLD. An instant classic.

Instead, it's Norton-Bobick.

I don't know who blew it the most. Miller by testing positive ... or Hearn by fumbling a perfect pass and not signing Joshua-Usyk. (Or, at worst, Joshua-Whyte II.)

The guy had ALL of them - Joshua, Usyk and Whyte - under contract and couldn't deliver.

Hearn sucks.

Arum may have been right. Hearn can't promote in the U.S.

This isn't the UK. In the U.S., you don't need a LOCAL in every main event.

 

AJ has already sold more tickets at a higher price for the fight at MSG than the American HW champ Wilder has the same city against another American HW.

 

Could be that tweet is just part of the negotiations. Ortiz's team think they can get more by holding out and doing petty **** like this, they know Eddie and AJ are in a bad position and Ortiz is the only opponent with any hope of being competitive.

 

It would be interesting to know what he got paid against Wilder and interesting to know if it was more or less than that

 

Relevance? MSG do not care who buys the tickets as long as they are sold and AJ on his first fight in the US has already breezed past what Wilder has ever drew to an arena.

 

Purse v Wilder was $500k. Now history tells us that opponents of AJ are well paid. There is not a chance Ortiz was offered less. Minium $1.5 but I think he would have been offered closer to $2 mil if not more.

 

This is getting to be surreal. Joshua is ducked as badly as GGG was 6-7 years ago, but with the difference that he's the biggest draw in the division, maybe in boxing as a whole. Why the **** are fighters ducking what would be by far their biggest pay days? He's looked good but not invincible, and how bad can a loss be when you're securing the pay day of your life? Not to mention what the money would be if you should spring the upset. This is just mental.

I don't like to go on the "oh, boxing is so abysmal nowadays, I remember the good ol' days in black and white" but it is beyond **** how the top fighters in the HW division are blatantly ducking the biggest fight they could get.

 

The fight could have been in LA or Vegas. Thousands would still travel.

Wilder is American. He has in theory more exposure to a large American market, his tickets are cheaper yet he hasn't drew what AJ drew. To try and put that down to UK fans willing to travel to across the Atlantic is simply ridiculous.