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

[petegrif]

I too thought it was a dead issue but it is not. The arbitration has NOT been decided yet. There have been a few articles recently here & other websites that say the decision would be finalized in a May hearing. I’m no expert on this arbitration stuff but it seems Wilder has had rumours of fighting again but nothing confirmed. Fury/Joshua hasn’t been finalize & neither has the Usyk/Joyce fight. All 3 of these fights are directly affected by what happens in the Wilder/Fury arbitration case. I could be wrong but everything changes if that hearing goes in Wilder’s favour. Wilder will want his rematch or a 8 digit step aside fee & until this is finalized it will be more of these Hearn announcements “in a week or so everything will be done”. I been reading that for months now. I have said all along that until the Wilder court challenge has a decision neither team should be making plans....

It's not a 'court challenge' it is a dispute to be settled in arbitration not court.

If the arbitration has not been settled yet it is taking a seriously long time for what should have been a pretty simple case of alleged breach of contract. Presumably there was a rematch clause or else it is hard to see what the dispute could be. But any clause would have associated provisions such as the time within which it must be invoked and executed upon. Determining if it was invoked by Wilder in a timely manner is trivially simple. Deciding if, even if invoked, good faith efforts were made to execute on that invocation is more complex but not brain surgery. There will be an audit trail. Claiming covid as force majeure seems a losing strategy as other fights have been made. So to be honest I am at a loss to understand quite why this is taking so long, on the face of it it seems a pretty simple case. Obviously W's lawyers will attempt to muddy the waters but even so.

If you believe you have a winning case in arbitration it is perfectly reasonable for you to make plans on that assumption.

[petegrif]

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

I'm curious what grounds you had for believing this.

[786]

The initial reason Fury-Wilder 3 never took place was the pandemic. There was a delay with Wilder's shoulder but they were waiting for crowds to come back and then team Fury suddenly told everyone that the contract had expired and they were moving on. That move has seemingly backfired on them. They tried to bypass the third fight with Wilder to fight Kabayel instead and then move on to the AJ fight. This arbitration thing seemed to block the Kabayel fight, now Fury's inactive with Hearn trying to make the AJ fight but Fury's in an awkward position. He's been inactive for over a year with a potential AJ fight looming that he might not be able to attend because he may lose this arbitration thing and have to fight Wilder first. Fury trying to bypass that Wilder fight seems to have delayed the AJ fight, if he got the third fight with Wilder out of the way he'd be in a much better place for the AJ fight and it likely would've been signed and officially announced by now.

[Straightener]

Get the feeling arum wants the fight to fall through

Greedy old toad should be retired now chilling out

[OnlytheTruth]

Wilder was never offered 100 million to fight AJ. Funny you tell someone not to let facts get in the way,, spec in their eye, tree in yours.

Yeah, you're right. It was $120 million.

[removed]

Disappointing news.

I'm a Fury fan but Arum is pissing me off. Just make the ****ing fight!

[KingGilgamesh]

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

You people are really all kinds of ****ing ******.

[KingGilgamesh]

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

The first WilderFury fight was in late 2018 you dumbass. Those negotiations were in spring 2019.

[NorvernRob]

It seems like making any worthwhile high-profile fight is like getting a tooth pulled. No wonder this sport is swirling down the U-bend.

It is. Hearn said in the interview that Fury’s team alone is over 40 people and it’s not just a case of someone signing a contract and it’s done. There are 100’s of millions of $ and 100’s of people involved here and everyone wants to make sure they get the best cut they can.

[Repens]

Who cares if I annoy you. Go cry somewhere else.

Also Eddie's daddy Barry ******** you when you were a kid.

you love eddie! he's all you talk about and you have pictures of him everywhere