Losing the title by delaying or refusing to fight AJ seems like a bad idea. Not only does he lose the 9 mil but he'd also risk having to pay AJ's loss of earnings/damages to career (which is quite a lot) and he'd lose the fight for undisputed plus the bargaining power of the extra belt with Wilder.
Considering he's already beat AJ and convincingly so, my thoughts would have been to play it safe legally and if he wins go for big money in a fight with Wilder for undisputed. Worse comes to pass he just made another 9 mil.
Only people suggesting it's a good thing have some weird interest in using him as political pawn in promotional chess.
It's better for boxing and Ruiz if the belts all stay together and the fight happens asap.
This is Ruiz's leverage. AJ and Hern can try to screw him over but he can just screw everyone over and get stripped. That way AJ would have to earn each belt separately again.
Ruiz screws himself over as soon as he looses one of those titles especially if he beats AJ again.
Even if he successfully defends himself against Hearn legally he'd have just cost himself the chance to not only be the first Mexican HW but the first Undisputed one.
AJ can then go around making easy money reclaiming his belts of the paper champs/easy comp they get dispursed to. He'll still be popular at the end of the day. You seem like the person who thinks AJ is avoiding Wilder, so this would be a good excuse to carry on doing so and still make a wedge for AJ.
Ruiz has the right for an option... AJ isn't a superstar (like Tyson, DLH, TBE (not The Best Ever), GrandPac, Canelo) to begin with to be on the A-side despite losing...
Lol he definitely is, the guys earning 25+mil per fight fighting relative nobodies and filling stadiums around 80,000 at a time but this is beside the point.
The risk to reward doesn't seem worth it chance lose your belt the undisputed fight and having to pay AJs his 10's of millions lost for what? Location and a couple extra mil
I think most people aren't wanting anything like that. This is more of a hmmm what exactly is going on situation for most people.
Its the people who are fanboys who are making judgements either pro or anti Ruiz's move.
I do suspect the language in the contract is ambiguous enough to give Ruiz more power than Eddie is acting like most of the time, but thats just speculation from being more informed than most on how Al Haymon, Ruiz's advisor, operates. And I do think as I seen someone say Eddie likes to get in front of the truth and is more Don King-like in his actions so I'm less concerned with what he's saying and more interesred in what he's not saying. But thats all to be seen and I'm not married to anything yet.
Yeah but if Ruiz has wriggle room then I struggle to see how it benefits Hearn much lying and going full steam ahead. He'll just end up taking Ls and looking worse to some people than he already does. Also he's just created obligations with the Arabs who may be able to sue him if he doesn't pull it off which leads me to think Eddie believes he can make Ruiz fight where he wants.
Speculation as well since I haven't seen contracts but it's what seems most logical at the minute, to me.
Losing the title by delaying or refusing to fight AJ seems like a bad idea. Not only does he lose the 9 mil but he'd also risk having to pay AJ's loss of earnings/damages to career (which is quite a lot) and he'd lose the fight for undisputed plus the bargaining power of the extra belt with Wilder.
Considering he's already beat AJ and convincingly so, my thoughts would have been to play it safe legally and if he wins go for big money in a fight with Wilder for undisputed. Worse comes to pass he just made another 9 mil.
Only people suggesting it's a good thing have some weird interest in using him as political pawn in promotional chess.
It's better for boxing and Ruiz if the belts all stay together and the fight happens asap.
Some people are more interested in Haymon vs Hearn than Ruiz vs Joshua.
Ruiz has the right for an option... AJ isn't a superstar (like Tyson, DLH, TBE (not The Best Ever), GrandPac, Canelo) to begin with to be on the A-side despite losing...
This is Ruiz's leverage. AJ and Hern can try to screw him over but he can just screw everyone over and get stripped. That way AJ would have to earn each belt separately again.
I sure as **** don't. Renegotiating for more money in such a big pot is one thing, trying to dictate where the rematch is held is absurd. If he doesn't like AJ choosing where the rematch takes place, he should have passed on the fight.