Comments Thread For: Wilder Blasts Hearn: 'You Wanted To Make A Fight Because You Don't Have Confidence In Your Own Fighter'

[FLY TY]

So Wilder says Hearn wanted to make a fight between Joshua and Wilder? And Team Wilder have no interest and are somehow blaming Hearn and Joshua for something?

Not again. When are we all going to come with terms with the fact Team Wilder just don't want that fight.

Wilder wanted the fight when they held all 4 belts between them, and it would've been for undisputed. He even agreed to a 12 million flat fee at the time.

Fast forward a few years, and the fight is less lucrative, and neither of them have any belts, and now all of a sudden Hearn is eager to make the fight? You're absolutely right, Wilder doesn't want now. **** Eddie Hearn and AJ.

Back to the British circuit for them.

[Combat Talk Radio]

Just fight josh already, I'm not reading this.

You should. Especially this

“Eddie Hearn coming to us after everything is over with my fight and stuff like that, talking about offering a deal,” Wilder explained to ESNews.com. “And my thing was, we’re busy. For me, it was easy to see what was going on. Boxing is solely a business, not a sport…It’s strictly a business. You understand what I’m saying? It’s strictly business. I have a lot of stories. With briefcases being thrown.

“He was trying to contact us for reassurance. All of a sudden you wanted to make a fight because even yourself don’t have confidence in your own fighter that he was going to win. For me he was just trying to make a deal to insure that he can lock something in. But the thing about it, when you lose, that price goes up. You know what I mean? You ain’t gonna get a solid deal, locked in.”

That explains why Keef can't get a fight, for example.

But it depends on who you lost to, and how.

Manny losing to Jeff Horn hurt his drawing power worse than losing to Floyd, because reasonable fans saw no way he would beat Floyd.

Wilder losing to Fury in a memorable war probably increased his value.

If Michael Spinks had gone out swinging against Tyson, people would have called him second best at the time because he really was good. It's the way he lost that ruined him.

Algieri getting dominated by Manny through not really throwing punches was worse than getting knocked out by Spence, going out swinging.

Joshua losing to Ruiz probably damaged his career beyond repair, to the point people didn't think he'd beat Usyk, so him losing to Usyk couldn't do much more, but getting outboxed twice? Hurt way worse.

[RoadMan94]

It's true but not entirely. It was with the Radio Raheem interview which I may have posted. Raheem kept pressing if Joshua lost which Eddie didn't want to even talk about but eventually caved in so it's not like Eddie was chirping about this willingly and openly, it was under duress.

Ahh right. Appreciate the heads up, thanks for that.

[DaNeutral.]

You're absolutely right, Wilder doesn't want now. **** Eddie Hearn and AJ..

I've cut through all your BS for you and just helped you get to the reality of it.

[thack]

Hearn can't be ****** enough not to know that Wilder would completely end Joshua's career, can he?

[rickJen]

Hearn can't be ****** enough not to know that Wilder would completely end Joshua's career, can he?

Wilder says emphatically that boxing is a business.
Don't know which one is ****** turning down an easy fight
for more than what he's getting from PBC.

[War Room]

Ahh right. Appreciate the heads up, thanks for that.

Anytime!

[sportbuddha]

The most shocking thing about this is that in two sentences he has admitted ducking AJ TWICE!

[Smash]

is this the start of the joshua/wilder show part II, from undefeated killers to deranged crybabies, its been a long road

[Verus]

wilder retires racist coward aj permanently will knock the schoolground drug enforcing bully clean out of him in 4 rounds be gr8 seeing him the coward aj fast asleep on the canvas counting to 30 and still not coming round

Why exactly is Joshua a coward, and why is he a racist? A lot of folks are interested in your reasoning on that. One more thing, what is a school ground drug enforcement bully and how do you know that AJ is one of those?