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Fury and Arum played AJ and Hearn. As soon as weinstein ordered fury vs wilder rematch, fury and arum ran to it to escape from AJ. arum and fury didn't put up any resistance to the court order. but there is so much more reward for both wilder and fury if fury would have beaten AJ and THEN did the rematch with wilder. We're talking $50-100m more.
fury vs wilder 3 could bomb as badly as floyd vs paul did. meaningless fights like fury vs wilder 3 are big financial risks, it may not sell at all. Fury vs AJ would sell HUGE, because that is the fight.
Wilder would have gained too if fury beat AJ, he would get the automatic next shot and earn a lot more money than he's ever earned before. fury and wilder, arum and haymon must have some kind of secret alliance. and they hope usyk beats AJ and then they can pretend they are the top dog. they will say usyk is a small euro bum who beat a big bum in AJ. Then they will push the fury wilder 4 5 and 6 fights as the two best. it all hinges on getting rid of AJ or phasing him out Usyk is a non draw. If they can just get AJ out of the picture, arum and haymon believe fury and wilder will become the two huge hwt attractions.
fury vs wilder 3 could bomb as badly as floyd vs paul did. meaningless fights like fury vs wilder 3 are big financial risks, it may not sell at all. Fury vs AJ would sell HUGE, because that is the fight.
Wilder would have gained too if fury beat AJ, he would get the automatic next shot and earn a lot more money than he's ever earned before. fury and wilder, arum and haymon must have some kind of secret alliance. and they hope usyk beats AJ and then they can pretend they are the top dog. they will say usyk is a small euro bum who beat a big bum in AJ. Then they will push the fury wilder 4 5 and 6 fights as the two best. it all hinges on getting rid of AJ or phasing him out Usyk is a non draw. If they can just get AJ out of the picture, arum and haymon believe fury and wilder will become the two huge hwt attractions.