Comments Thread For: Arum on Fury-Joshua: Fight is 'Dead in The Water' For July, August

[Robbie Barrett]

Joshua isn't fighting Fury unless Fury wins the Wilder trilogy. And nobody in the US is paying for an AJ-Fury ppv at 3pm on a Saturday, which is exactly why Hearn needs the huge site fee for insurance.

Lots of people will pay for it. I'd reckon 500k at least. Then the record breaking UK PPV it'd do. They both chose the site. Makes business sense to get the most you can. Who in their right mind would turn down 100 mil to get a 20 mil gate instead?

[Combat Talk Radio]

I mentioned in another thread that I don't like the inactivity of both fighters especially Fury's. It gives it the built in excuse if either fighter loses. I don't know either how they are going to do two fights. There is no saying what will happen when they meet and they are titles involved. The winner will have all the titles and that unification exception is out of the window.

Because you bake in a controversial draw to force that rematch and make more money.

Just like Fury/Wilder 1, Canelo/Golovkin 1 and Pac/Marquez 1, and like they tried (but failed) to do with Mayweather/Canelo.

[Marchegiano]

Well, let's go Wilder then.

[FLY TY]

Lots of people will pay for it. I'd reckon 500k at least. Then the record breaking UK PPV it'd do. They both chose the site. Makes business sense to get the most you can. Who in their right mind would turn down 100 mil to get a 20 mil gate instead?

You're out of your damned mind if you think this fight does 500K US ppv. Before AJ went to Dazn, he could barely get 500K viewers on Showtime. Tyson Fury hasn't been on US ppv fighting anybody except the US heavyweight champion.

Obviously Arum and ESPN are turning down the 100 million because the money isn't there, and the 20 million gate plus US ppv is worth it to them.

[Robbie Barrett]

You're out of your damned mind if you think this fight does 500K US ppv. Before AJ went to Dazn, he could barely get 500K viewers on Showtime. Tyson Fury hasn't been on US ppv fighting anybody except the US heavyweight champion.

Obviously Arum and ESPN are turning down the 100 million because the money isn't there, and the 20 million gate plus US ppv is worth it to them.

A fight for the undisputed title would more attention than most fights. 500k easy.

The Fury-Wilder 2 gate and US PPV only came to 80 mil. Be surprised if a 3rd fight would do half that after how it turned out. So the site fee alone is worth it if it gets done.

[Bain01D]

Has felt like TR and the Fury side has been stalling for a while, hoping to drag it out and that it won't get done. Don't think Fury wants it next, feels he probably loses unless he can get a tune-up first

Agree that they want to squeeze a tune up in and that’s why!

Arum is a PROMOTER but seems to have forgotten, talking bad of his fighters and doing what he can to stop fights being made

[KingOfGlory]

Fury could be the greatest heavyweight in history but we'll never know because he'll be fighting the undefeated #58 Peter Kadiru after another 2 year hiatus while Wilder is still sitting at home twerking and figuring out how his corner managed to inject drugs directly into his superhero costume while Joshua is content to avoid Ruiz, Fury, and Wilder while negotiating his latest Eurohype fight in a 30x30 ring in Saudi Arabia while Ruiz can't decide if he's motivated to fight another aging contender from 10 years ago or eat another aged brisket that's been slow cooking for 10 hours while Whyte continues demanding a title fight after getting brutally knocked out by his latest 40+ year old cherrypick gone wrong.

[FLY TY]

A fight for the undisputed title would more attention than most fights. 500k easy.

The Fury-Wilder 2 gate and US PPV only came to 80 mil. Be surprised if a 3rd fight would do half that after how it turned out. So the site fee alone is worth it if it gets done.

Please...undisputed or not, nobody is paying for a fight at 3 pm with 2 fighters they don't know. This fight does less than Bud Crawford does on ppv.

[DaNeutral.]

Eddie up to his old tricks. He did the same thing with the first AJ-Wilder negotiations. It was only when Tyson exposed Wilder that Eddie was serious about making the Wilder fight.

Eddie is just conning the public into thinking he's doing all the legwork and Warren, Arum and Fury are the one's that don't want it.

Eddie is a liar. He doesn't want to risk his cash cow. Warren and Arum have a track record of putting on 50/50 fights with their top boxers in recent times, e.g Dubois-Joyce or Loma -Lopez etc. So why wouldn't they want Fury vs AJ when they are confident Fury will win. Eddie is only fooling his brainwashed followers. He has brainwashed them well.

Siddown ya bum. Eddie Eddie Eddie, oi oi oi. Has Eddie fooled Arum and Warren and Fury too? At no point have they been saying the same silly crap you been saying.

Are you one of those anti Hearn cuz he is a white man racists?

[DaNeutral.]

Sounds to me like Blob Arum, Fish eyes and the ***** Boxer been desperate to get out of this fight anyway. The 2 crispy promoters haven't lifted a finger to try get this one over the line considering its going to be on their affiliated networks and both the *****s promoters have been nothing but negative the entire time.

They just don't want it, have let Hearn do all the work, moaned and complained the entire time and have given off the stench of not really wanting it.