Eddie Hearn in his ifl interview said the board will not allow any fighter to get in the ring during post fight interviews. He also said Wilder working for sky would be a matter of feet away. The point is Wilder doesn't even need to get in the ring when his working for sky. Wilder is not ringside watching the fight like anyone else. He would be working for the broadcaster with every opportunity to say what he wanted.
That Fury has been inactive ever since for personal reasons is beside the point. Can you imagine the criticism Wilder would receive if he or members of his team had forbade Fury from entering the ring? Give me a darn break.
Eddie did make some sense, you want a fight with AJ then it isn't hard to do the deal... Wlad got done and that should have been way harder that Wilder.. Again we are getting a unification fight this week end.. The only reason why the fight isn't done yet is because of Wilder and his teams arrogance. They really think they are doing AJ a favour (along with his nut huggers) but Wilder needs AJ far more than AJ needs him.. You really think AJ is afraid of anyone really?? None of them are afraid of each other. @Wilder stop talking **** over the internet and get the deal done if you are so desperate to fight. Its not hard to do at all.. Really if he isn't going because he can't go in the ring (lawl) it just show its all a ruse on his part...
Ya Ive seen Wilders various comments... Ive even seen him saying something like 'Black dont crack baby, once we all unite we will yadda yadda something something' but who knows. Theres distinctions, imo, between being ignorant (saying Hearns just another white man milking a black man) while also passionate about your own race/culture/ect (black dont crack, once we come together blah blah), and being actually racist, imo... so Im not going to say Wilder is racist, but I can see why someone might see it that way. I dont have a problem with someone being passionate about their race (even if I think its a bit archaic of a mindset, I can still understand and accept it) its the ignorance I have a problem with (saying Hearn is just a white man milking a black man, and others saying Hearn is trying to be a plantation owner, ect, ect)
Read again that Wilder is not interested in Whyte. I have to admit, as a Wilder 'backer', I am not understanding this avoidance of Whyte. All I can think is that its an ego thing.... that Wilder feels he really is a 'king' and thinks hes being disrespected by trying to be swept aside from AJ by being distracted with Whyte. But really, that ego stuff is BS. This is good business. Him fighting and beating Whyte adds tons of fuel to the AJ vs Wilder fire. If Wilder is going to be holding out for AJ, I suppose I understand. But even then, I kinda dont, because he will probably have to fight Whyte at some point.... why fight him after AJ, when he can fight him before AJ and make the fight that much bigger? If he fights someone else in the meantime, and its not Whyte.... thats simply stupidity and a bad bad look for Wilder.
Id tend to agree to a respect but the bottom line is if wilder was a different skin colour there would be a media lynchmob currently trying to ruin him and he would be completely ruined. To not hold him to the same standards as everyone else would actually be racist itself, the racism of low expectations. So im going to call wilder a racist because if the shoe was on someone else's foot that what they would currently be called. The environment created where wilder thinks he can make comments like that and not face any repercussions is minn boggling . the only person who called him out for it was billy Joe Saunders, the media don't seem to care. Compare that to fury who made a lot more benign comment about a certain group of people ,there was actually no malice in it and he was lambasted and called an anti Semite over it. Why is wilder allowed get away with worse and fury isn't? Its the racism of low expectations
The Nut huggery from you Brits is intellectually overwhelming. When Wilder calls out Joshua you guys say he's fought nobody. When he fights the alleged boogie man of the division and a guy Joshua ducked, you guys say he was old. When Wilder buys his ticket to come see Joshua-Parker, you guys say he's desperate and should no his role. When he declines to come over to England because he might confront your Messiah Joshua, you say he's embarrassing. I mean, this guy can't do no right in your eyes Look, it's one thing to be patriotic and support your fellow Brit, but it's another, to be disingenuous just for the sake of it. Before you accuse me of hating, I too have a Nigerian like Joshua and want to see him do well just like I do Wilder.
All of the 25 Wilder fans (mostly Americans), Wilder has one decent win in 40 professional fights and us Brits are the nut huggers? 40 professional fights ffs, Wilder could have fought Klitschko and even Parker in a unification, he had enough time, but nope, chose Stiverne, Washington, Areola, Szpilka.. and old man Ortiz. You lot are shoulder deep in a fighter that hasn't done anything except beat up one decent old man in 40 fights and nearly got KTFO in the process. If you believe AJ has "ducked" Wilder because he didn't just agree to all of Wilders ridiculous demands when Wilder wanted him to then I can't help you. You obviously know very little about the business side of boxing. As for people like me being "disingenuous" or if you want to say bias, blinkered and agenda driven.. I've said Parker shouldn't be overlooked or underestimated from the day this fight was signed and there are plenty like me, all saying the same thing. I am not delusional, AJ has flaws, he can and will be beaten at some point, nobody is invincible, I am not foolish enough to say anything of the sort. As for Wilder not turning up, errr he might do, he might surprise us all, if he doesn't then I believe it is embarrassing and foolish. You can't say the things Wilder has been saying and not turn up because you can't do what you like, it's childish and the actions of a little delusional diva.
The fight isn't gonna be bigger with Joshua if he fights Whyte first. This is the perfect situation, they both fight within the same month (how often does that happen, 2 potential opponents fighting in the same 30 days), Hearn's pontificating over Wilder needing to fight in the summer or fight Whyte first is ridiculous. Had Wilder no trinket, or even had Wilder not beat anyone in the top 10, I'd completely agree, but this isn't the case. Let's be real, he beat the defacto number 4 guy in the division, the darkhorse of the Joshua, Wilder, Parker round robin. Whyte is a step backwards from Ortiz. Whyte doesn't even need to fight for a title next anyway, he needs to fight Chisora again as he was very lucky to escape with his scalp. Or let Whyte fight Big Baby Miller. Whyte beat Lucas Browne. This is the fight (assuming Joshua beats Parker) that everyone one wants to see next. I don't even like Wilder but this is all clear as day. I no longer care about his other 39 fights because he took on the perceived boogeyman of the division and gutted it out and stopped him, The fight needs to happen. Wilder and his people know and acknowledge they won't get parity with Joshua, this is on Hearn.