Comments Thread For: Wilder: After I Beat Fury, I Hope Joshua Keeps The Same Energy To Unify

[Oldskoolg]

Wilder is more dangerous for Joshua than he is for Fury because of their boxing style. It will be far more difficult for Joshua to escape that right hand for 12 rounds. AJ won't have the height and reach advantages either.

I think Joshua is at least as dangerous for wilder as the reverse. Wilder isn’t particular sturdy and has been hurt several times by men with less power than Olafemi. Someone gets knocked out in that fight before the 4th round. Neither man can take the others power

[Bronx2245]

Because we’ve seen it twice before and the first fight was one sided bar the knockdowns and the second was an utter beat down from start to finish. Plus it’s preventing us from seeing a full unification so it’s hard to get excited about. The only people Who are looking forward to this are wilder fans

Not really! I am a Wilder fan, but I was looking forward to Fury vs. Joshua! It's like working all day, thinking tonight is Steak & BJ Night, then coming home and you're wife is on her period, and y'all are eating chicken!

[davefromvancouv]

Let's see.

One guy has unified twice and fought all his mandatories.

One was the longest single belt holder in recent years and attempted zero unifications.

Another never defended a belt, never mind faced a mandatory.

Which one do you think is interested in one face, one name, one champion?

That's easy. Wilder.

Fury beat Klitschko then retired right before unifying with Wilder.

Joshua jumped out of the WBC rankings to pick up Fury's belts (avoiding WBA mandatory Luis Ortiz along the way), then killed unification with Wilder to fight newly installed WBA mandatory Povetkin. He has a second chance to fight for undisputed when Wilder becomes two-time WBC champion and the new RING/lineal heavyweight champion of the world.

[Monty Fisto]

I think Joshua is at least as dangerous for wilder as the reverse. Wilder isn’t particular sturdy and has been hurt several times by men with less power than Olafemi. Someone gets knocked out in that fight before the 4th round. Neither man can take the others power

This is a more likely scenario than many I've read. It would be a bit of a coin flip, which is why neither side would be particularly keen. I do think Joshua's superior boxing skills mean he has the better chance of doing the damage first, but there's no question Wilder would totally undo him if he landed properly at some point.

[Oldskoolg]

This is a more likely scenario than many I've read. It would be a bit of a coin flip, which is why neither side would be particularly keen. I do think Joshua's superior boxing skills mean he has the better chance of doing the damage first, but there's no question Wilder would totally undo him if he landed properly at some point.

It’s still the fight I want to see at heavyweight

[andocom]

Hearn turned down Wilders 50 million offer.

Maybe Hearn just wants you to think they want it.

Amazing how Hearn can't make a deal with either of the top 2 guys, but can easily make a deal with the 40 year old easier opponents

Hearn didn't turn down anything, he requested a meeting to negotiate, they wouldn't meet with him.

Also you miss the part where Fury had signed to fight Joshua, seems Hearn can make a deal, just Arum can't handle his business.

But yeah whatever, if at this point you still believe its Hearn not trying to make the undisputed I doubt there is literally anything anyone could say to convince you otherwise. Wilder's already admitted it.

[PunchyPotorff]

Unless someone is a wilder fanatic... they can see the guy is just surrounded by yes men. He's loud, arrogant, a bully... with no boxing skills. Not a good formula if you're in there with a fighter as slick as Fury. This will be a 3rd embarrassment for the guy... with 2nd tier fights FNO in his career, then retirement. No worries. He's rich. He'll do fine going to boxing cards bragging to the commentators about how great he is, how a comeback is just around the corner. Plus he'll be on Tuscaloosa TV hocking all manor of bogus car lots, flea markets, etc.

[Jkp]

So an offer sent to Anthony Joshua and Rob McCraken directly, is legit? Ok - fine. We can all agree that Wilder's twitter offer was in 'existence'.

Oh but they only have 24 hours to sign the contract and give Wilder's team full control of promotion and US television rights. Ok, starting to sound and smell like a BS offer, but ok, its an 'offer'.

Then when Joshua passes this to his promoter to pursue and he asks for confirmation of the funds, an actual contract, the name of the venue and that Joshua can meet his UK contractual obligations, ok, lets have a meeting TOMORROW AND AGREE the deal.

Low and behold - no meeting happens, no contract from Finkel, no communication - and POOOOF! Like ****ing magic, Joshua has ducked Wilder.

Yeah, ok...good ****ing deal. GTFOH.

It was more serious than AJs offer, which involved Wilder ditching his entire promotional team, and giving long term control to Hearn, and didn't even guarantee an AJ fight.

Would have been really hard to fit that unification fight with AJ in , when aj ended up having no belts cause the fat Mexican beat the black out of him.

[kafkod]

It was more serious than AJs offer, which involved Wilder ditching his entire promotional team, and giving long term control to Hearn, and didn't even guarantee an AJ fight.

Would have been really hard to fit that unification fight with AJ in , when aj ended up having no belts cause the fat Mexican beat the black out of him.

Hearn wasn't involved at all in the deal DAZN tried to make with Wilder. And if it didn't guarantee an AJ fight, why were Wilder fanboys all over this forum saying he was right to turn the offer down because DAZN wouldn"t tell him how much AJ would be paid to fight him?

[OnlytheTruth]

It was more serious than AJs offer, which involved Wilder ditching his entire promotional team, and giving long term control to Hearn, and didn't even guarantee an AJ fight.

Would have been really hard to fit that unification fight with AJ in , when aj ended up having no belts cause the fat Mexican beat the black out of him.

Oh I see. You’re just a troll.

Well played. I almost believed you were serious.