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So Hearn is offering Wilder more money than he got to face Fury to fight guys like Kownacki or Breazeale, plus guarantee him a AJ fight next.. And Eddie is willing to broker the deal on behalf of DAZN so Wilder can basically fight Breazeale for a career high pay day.. How can he turn that offer down?? Anyone?. FYI Wilder is already romoured to face Breazeale on May 18th anyway.. Most likely on showtime, hightly doubt it will be on PPV as not enough time to promote a PPV for May plus that fight has zero casual interest and would do less than 80k buys and Wilder's purse will be around $2mil on showtime. Update: Hearn clarified that after the 15mil voulentary fight, Wilder gets a shot at AJ for 50/50 split in the US! Yes... 50/50 and in the US for AJ fight on top of 15mil voulentary! It's crazy cus that is infact overpaying Wilder but hey, Wilder has now got what he asked for.. What's his excuse going to be now?�� Eddie Hearn told US reporters he could offer Deontay Wilder $15million to face Breazeale/Whyte/Kownacki next, so long as he signed to face Joshua (with two-way rematch) afterwards. He added that Wilder doesn’t need to sign a co-promotional deal to fight on his DAZN shows.
— Michael Benson (@MichaelBensonn) February 28, 2019