Comments Thread For: Hearn: Team Fury Made Zero Attempt To Save The Joshua Fight!

[Toffee]

Yes. The fault lies with Eddie Hearn, trying to secure a fight for undisputed when Fury was in the middle of a contract dispute with another fighter.

But I'll ask again...

Fault for what?

What are you blaming him for? Or what has he caused?

[QballLobo]

How funny is it that AJ has tried to give both Wilder and Fury $100 million and they both didn’t get it.
Fury could hurt his hand caving Wilder’s face in or worse lose.
Just don’t see Fury/Wilder 3 doing that well PPV wise. The trash talk will be good but not much intrigue after Fury dominated him last time out.

[The plunger man]

Yes. The fault lies with Eddie Hearn, trying to secure a fight for undisputed when Fury was in the middle of a contract dispute with another fighter.

Hearn works for Joshua not the other way round and if both fury and Joshua said they wanted the fight and arum said the wilder fight is not happening ...how’s it hearns fault ?

[PBR Streetgang]

I just don't understand this weird move from team Fury, why not fight Wilder in December when he wanted the rematch instead of pretending to never want to fight him again, then pretending to want to fight Kabayel instead, then pretending to negotiate for an AJ fight all while knowing it could potentially not happen?....Was all this just to delay the Wilder rematch or are they doing all this to duck AJ? Weird behavior.

These things usually boil down to a financial motive (and occasionally a vanity-driven motive). My guess is that Bob didn't want to fight with covid-19 limitations on live gates. HW is a cash cow division and he wanted to maximize profits. Eddie comes along and wants to make the biggest fight for his own agenda (profit and vanity), Bob let's him hustle to make that move and waits on arbitrator decision. Bob makes contingency plans in case the arbitration goes in favor of Wilder. Either way, he has a big fight for big money. No diminished revenue by paying a step aside, he let Eddie risk his reputation on the Saudi deal.

I don't really like any of the major promoters and Bob is probably the slimiest but the dude is cunning. Eddie is mad because he was played like a fiddle by the Bobfather.

[Ray*]

But I'll ask again...

Fault for what?

What are you blaming him for? Or what has he caused?

I don't see any fault of Hearn here, just maybe naivety. I mean he spend so much energy on Wilder fighting Joshua when anyone with a brain knew they didn't want the fight. When you are cancelling meetings and claiming it was counterproductive in making a fight then you should have known they aren't serious, finally Wilder himself confessed that he was offered more money to fight Joshua before ducking those offers to fight Fury.

This is where I thought he was naive, after that whole Wilder ducking sessions, he shouldn't have put all his eggs in the Fury basket, he definitely has no choice but to go with what Arum tells him, but he should have seen that Arum and Warren were sooo hesitant over the last couple of weeks leading up to the announcement of the arbitration.

Still I don't fault him for trying to give us the fight that we all wanted.

[Toffee]

These things usually boil down to a financial motive (and occasionally a vanity-driven motive). My guess is that Bob didn't want to fight with covid-19 limitations on live gates. HW is a cash cow division and he wanted to maximize profits. Eddie comes along and wants to make the biggest fight for his own agenda (profit and vanity), Bob let's him hustle to make that move and waits on arbitrator decision. Bob makes contingency plans in case the arbitration goes in favor of Wilder. Either way, he has a big fight for big money. No diminished revenue by paying a step aside, he let Eddie risk his reputation on the Saudi deal.

I don't really like any of the major promoters and Bob is probably the slimiest but the dude is cunning. Eddie is mad because he was played like a fiddle by the Bobfather.

But financially they could have had both fights, and come out looking better.

Instead they've only got the lesser value fight, 18 months of no earnings and have swerved two fighters to get there.

Yet Fury is seemingly happy with how he's been represented.

It still doesn't make any sense. This can't have been Bob's plan?

[Bob]

This is all crying over spilt milk that was never his.

There never was an undisputed fight to negotiate in the first place until the Wilder contract dispute was resolved & surprisingly to all of us it went the wrong way.

The criminal thing going on here is promoter's stalling fighter's careers & the division with all these rematch clauses in the first place that absolutely don't belong in sport.

Look at Usyk.
If there were no rematch clauses Usyk would have boxed Ruiz for unified or we'd have got Wilder Ruiz undesputed which would be the best thing to happen in the sport.
Instead we got Aj fighting scared in a horrible fight against an untrained Ruiz, then ignoring Usyk again & once again going for the oldest possible opponent option with the never been any good 10 year's past his best shot 40 yr old Pulev.

No more rematch clauses. 1v2 3v4 winner's fight. Simples.

[!-1]

EVERYONE knew about the arbitration including Eddie. He knew this fight was going to fall through that's why he created the illusion that he was the one that was doing all the work and he really wanted it so he can blame Warren, Arum and Fury and make it look like him and AJ wanted it. Just Eddie conning as usual.

As for eddie doing all the work. All he did was call the organisers of AJ-Ruiz 2 which he worked with before. He didn't find new contacts.

Eddie has really brainwashed these mis-matchroom morons.

[Szef]

people blaming hearn for this fight falling apart are rtarded. there's no other logical explanation.

this is ALL on tyson fury and his team.

[champion4ever]

You will learn Edward! You will learn to never turn your back on your enemies. These guys were setting your ass up to fail from the start. Never trust your rivals and competitors. They would love nothing more than to put you, Matchroom Boxing USA and DAZN out of business. That arbitration was a farce. It was all an act. It was a face-saving publicity stunt in order to burn you.

The truth is they were never interested in a Fury/Joshua bout this soon. They were looking for way out but didn't know how. The fact is Team Fury and Team Wilder had been in secret and private negotiations for several months now in order to make that Fury/Wilder trilogy bout happen and not to do an undisputed bout. You got screwed big time here but don't worry.

You are still growing as a promoter. So wise up and you could become as good as a promoter as Bob Arum is someday!