Comments Thread For: Arum on Fury-Joshua: Hearn is Stalling Everything, He Doesn't Want Fight To Happen

[Monty Fisto]

All promoters lie and spin narratives. What a find, Sherlock.

It just turns out Hearn spends the most amount of time in front of the cameras and has a horde of fanboys that defend him on every platform. The same cannot really be said about the boomers.

They either had to fight Usyk or drop the WBO belt and doing the latter would have contradicted the whole "undisputed" marketing they had been spewing for years. Then the rematch took place with rigged judges in Saudi for an easy 50 million against a much smaller man with no concussive power.

How is that brave? Those praising AJ are nothing but sycophants, the situation was completely different to WIlder enforcing the trilogy after being battered by a 270 lbs Fury previously.

Also, the narrative going into the first fight was that the blown-up cruiserweight was too small and would get runover by AJ given his subpar performance against faded, gatekeeper Chisora. They expected a rusty, washed and pillow-fisted easy tickover mandatory like Pulev before fighting Fury.

Their arrogance and frank overestimation of AJ's abilities have cost Matchroom and DAZN hundreds of millions. Hearn is definitely in a calculated, overprotective mode now. Zhang, McKean, Shyte 2 are all much easier fights than Fury and would generate more in total than being the B-side in Cardiff once.

This is all without even factoring in the risk of additional psychological damage, including a potential retirement, should Fury dominantly school and knockout AJ. That would be a promotional and financial disaster for Matchroom given he recently signed a lifetime deal with them.

Hearn is not looking to cash out AJ just yet, despite what some people on this forum would have you believe. He is weighing up the risks vs. reward, the damage limitation dependent upon AJ's overall performance regardless of the result and a multitude of other factors.

Thinking logically, there is only one side that should be really hesistant about making this fight.

All promoters spin narratives at times, and lie on occasion. None do it as frequently as Arum.

Specifically regarding your question "How is that brave?" I'm not saying it's brave. I'm saying Hearn has matched AJ with fighters against whom there was a reasonable chance of losing. This is self evident from his losing three of his last five fights. There is reason to believe Hearn didn't want AJ to take the rematch against Usyk, but that AJ insisted on exercising the rematch. The logic seems flawed, then, to say that Hearn wouldn't acquiesce to Joshua's desire to face Fury because it might damage his investment.