Why is Wilder not the highest paid fighter in boxing?

He should be a bigger star than what he is. When he fights AJ and if he beats him that's when he will become a superstar.

 

he can learn to box and face better competition.
He faced one good opponent was being outboxed for 90% of the fight and almost stopped and you expect him to be crowned the king of boxing?

 

Don't see how Wilder can get past AJ. He is a sitting duck intill he can land his power right hand and during that period of time AJ will have already done his damage.

 

The missing piece of the puzzle here is promotion. All these guys with no promoters all complain that nobody watches them, and they blame the public.

It’s very simple. Get a promoter!

 

Probably because he JUST fought his first live opponent after what? 20 years as a pro?

 

He doesn't have a promoter. He was with Golden Boy, but left after he got the title. In retrospect that was a mistake, Oscar could've promoted him to the hilt. He uses DiBella's promotional services, but since he isn't one of DiBella's fighters DiBella doesn't put much effort in promoting Wilder.

Wilder clearly wanted to cut out the middleman and he did, but it came at the price of his name not being as established as it could've been.

If Don King weren't so old he would be the perfect promoter for Wilder, since he can offer the mouthpiece Wilder needs to attract the non boxing fans like Tyson, Ali, and Roy Jones who had natural talent on the microphone.

 

he self promotes well

he is americas best paid heavy by far and one of the best paid fighters in the world

not everyone can get paid 10 to 20 million a fight

your using AJ as comparison

thats wrong AJ drawing power is unique and should be left out of it

wilder is getting 10 times more than most of his opponents .

seemingly it is only PPV fighters getting the mega paydays
shame IMO because it is and has driven away 90% of casual fans

1.5 million a fight is still good money

 

You have his advisors to thank for not having faith in him from the start and not wanting to make too much noise about him hence nobody knew who he was. Ive noticed that now he has taken control and is making alot of noise to gain interest his people are all of a sudden saying the things they were meant to be saying years ago.

 

Until the Ortiz win he didn’t have a win over an elite top 6 HW.

The promotional interest and revenue from his shows is as a consequence not very high.

Many still see him as a paper champion

 

Too long and too hard to hit?
Spilka , Ortiz and dusty Nichols had no problems outboxing older and they are smaller than joshua