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

[joe strong]

What a waste of time. Fury could have gave Wilder his rematch & Joshua could have satisfied his WBO mandatory fighting Usyk. Then the undisputed title fight could have happened next with whomever won those 2 fights. It’s not like Fury/Joshua wouldn’t be a massive fight even if they both lost... Covid is an issue for sure so they should have both went in different directions until further notice. They both want to maximize their earnings for a full HW unification but unfortunately we are in the middle of a world wide pandemic. Either take a pay cut & make it work or move in another direction hoping both continue to win until fans can attend this superfight in a packed UK stadium where it belongs.

[Quercusalba]

If the fight is in fact off, how can AJ not fight Usyk now?

[FLY TY]

I mean, the same guys came up with the money for Joshua/Ruiz 2, so I don't doubt they can put this together. I'm pretty confident Fury and Arum don't want this fight next, whether it has to do with the Wilder contract or not, they certainly appear to be the one's that are stalling

Lol. Eddie lied about 100 million, and only got 60 million for Ruiz. Fury-Wilder2 did damn near 20 in gate revenue, and nearly 80 on ppv without a hitch....

Trust Eddie, or go with the sure bet?

[juggernaut666]

One day after meeting with the arbiter he says this. Been trying to tell you people they were going to lose this.

The arbitration has nothing to do with what Arum said . Wilder could fight Fury next if Fury wants the fight . Arum said Wilder lost the case months ago forcing a fight . I think Wilder will fight someone else ,I would be surprised if he wants an immediate third fight anyway with a new team around him .

[juggernaut666]

Talking ****. The fight will be announced the day after the Canelo fight IMO.

I’m guessing this to . If not Fury ran away again .

[Zelda]

It is not about Eddie or Bob or AJ or Fury wanting it or not. It is simply that things are not "business as usual" in the middle of a pandemic. As I stated in another thread, the Saudis (or Abu Dhabi in the case of Crawford vs Manny) would like something in return for their money. That something is people flying in to watch the fight which generates some money and gives a tourism boost to their country, but that ain't happening right now. So, it obvious that commitments are shaky and things will change as travel bans come in and out of effect every so often. So, as Bob puts it, the Saudis are also making some demands related to broadcasting which will take a lot of time to iron out.

Joshua has had an in-between fight so Eddie and AJ might be willing to wait a few more weeks/month(s) but Arum and Fury aren't since their last fight was in Feb of 2020. Hence, the statement from Bob that this might take a while to iron out everything and each fighter should have an interim fight. Makes a lot of sense at this time. Sure, there is a risk involved in either of them losing but what can you do? Can you blame Fury and his team for not endlessly waiting for issues to get sorted out?

[Deleted]

2 separate threads/stories linked to this promoter in a short period of time. Crawford-Pacquiao and now this fight. It would be interesting to see the comments from some people for both threads/stories side by side.

Anyways, Life's too short and regarding this story... not shocked or surprised, there are more interesting fight in other weight classes. This isn't exactly Loma vs Lopez 2 or Manny/Spence/Porter vs Bud, Bivol vs Beterbiev and I'm just starting..

[harry-greb]

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.

Wilder finkel and haymon met John skipper of DAZN and were offered 100 million to fight Joshua, well before the fury vs wilder fight. But don't let the facts get in the way of your little story

[Mammoth]

It would be nice if the public negotiations for such a so-so fight would end.

[Motorcity Cobra]

The arbitration has nothing to do with what Arum said . Wilder could fight Fury next if Fury wants the fight . Arum said Wilder lost the case months ago forcing a fight . I think Wilder will fight someone else ,I would be surprised if he wants an immediate third fight anyway with a new team around him .

Stop being a sheep repeating the lies of these liars. If Bob said Wilder lost his case months ago why were they just meeting with the arbiter 2 days ago to work out a solution before the final ruling? If Wilder doesn't want to fight Fury again why is he still in arbitration trying to get the fight? Two days after meeting with the arbiter now Arum is saying the AJ v Fury fight can't happen and they're going to try to negotiate with Wilder. Seriously you guys have to wake up & stop being sheep