Comments Thread For: Hearn on Fury-Joshua: Arum is Trying To Put Pressure On, That's How He Works

[JRB123]

Just a few more details to get this fight out of the way. It's funny how some are still out here saying that Joshua is the one getting cold feet when it is Fury who is known to back out of fights.

Joshua just wants to fight for undisputed and prove himself. That's been his goal from the jump.

[Toffee]

Of course they're saying they've got an alternative. That's leverage.

Big contracts take forever to be signed. And you know a long way out whether the remaining issues are show stoppers or not.

And that's just for the relatively simple contracts I deal with, and never quite at these kind of values.

It doesn't surprise me at all that it's dragging.

It surprises me that they both want to fight in July, but that's another story.

[Beercules]

Just get the ****ing fight done please.

[Mick Higgs]

It strikes me that it's only Fa$t £ddie who's actually working on this fight, while Fi$h £yed Frank & uncle Bob just sit on there aged fat arse's!!..

[PRINCEKOOL]

True statement. I'd be hard pressed to think of any promotion or promoter that wasn't.

For me, Arum bothers me the most... probably because he's the most abrasive. Guy has no problem criticizing his own fighters, other sports, other promoters and is usually a hypocrite in doing it.

A man of his time maybe, sometimes it is a good trait when 'People do not get molded by the change in society'

Bob Arum maybe just doing his thing, he had adapted but still does his thing.

He is very abrasive, but with people like that? You know it is 100% legitimate when the like you.

Although I do remember Eddie Hearn basically saying 'I have to like a fighter to work with them' this was when he let go of Chris Eubank Junior.

This fight is Eddie Hearns greatest moment in the sport, the other promoters know that. Hearn will be the one that gets all the credit, this will be a big achievement for him 'Biggest of his career'

[NorvernRob]

Hearn offered a A.J fight to him in 2018, why would they have cold feet for undisputed now , better yet why would the promoter doing everything be sabotaging himself trying to make the fight where he had to travel a lot and meet countless times to negotiate a contract to hold the fight site ?

Didn’t you know? Hearn has no interest in making himself 20-30m, putting on the biggest fight for years and having his fighter undisputed HW champ. What he wants is to spend days, weeks, months negotiating, wasting everyone’s time and spending money, then intentionally have it fall through so AJ can fight a 40 year old stiff and Hearn can make 2m instead.

The sages and financial wizards on BS can see right through him.

[Bob]

They signed 11 months ago now.

This isn't about the undesputed heavyweight fight any more more. This is all Edward look at me making the big site fee deal in a country we should never give the opportunity.
Money first, boxing second, human right's he doesn't give a...
They could have easily boxed twice already.

[kafkod]

Didn’t you know? Hearn has no interest in making himself 20-30m, putting on the biggest fight for years and having his fighter undisputed HW champ. What he wants is to spend days, weeks, months negotiating, wasting everyone’s time and spending money, then intentionally have it fall through so AJ can fight a 40 year old stiff and Hearn can make 2m instead.

The sages and financial wizards on BS can see right through him.

They are all contract lawyers and business entrepreneurs, as ****** rich as Eddie himself. They know that 20-30m may seem like a lot of money to the likes of us, but it's chump change to big shots like them and Eddie.

[Bronx2245]

"Bob may talk about Tyson fighting Wilder, but he ain’t going to fight Wilder, it’s a nothing fight." - Eddie Hearn

Wilder gets KO'd by Fury, and the rematch is a "nothing" fight? Didn't Joshua get KO'd by Fat Andy Ruiz? I guess because Joshua has belts, that's different?

[Blackstarr]

"Bob may talk about Tyson fighting Wilder, but he ain’t going to fight Wilder, it’s a nothing fight." - Eddie Hearn

Wilder gets KO'd by Fury, and the rematch is a "nothing" fight? Didn't Joshua get KO'd by Fat Andy Ruiz? I guess because Joshua has belts, that's different?

It’s a nothing fight because a 50% Fury beat Wilder in the first fight according to the vast majority of observers and then beat him half to death in the 2nd, in a promotion that lost money. With AJ-Ruiz, AJ at least had the upper hand until he got caught, so there was far more intrigue in the rematch as a large number wondered whether Ruiz got lucky, and AJ had a bigger fan base than Fury and Wilder combined to carry that rematch. Complete chalk and cheese.