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https://twitter.com/bronzebomber/sta...243072?lang=en He said it himself. Wilder denied an 100 million 2 fight deal with Aj just to fight fury again but for some reason the popular allegation is AJ is scared of WIlder and avoided him several times, why is that ?
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You tell me....AJ didn't have the balls to delay the Povetkin mando in 2018 for a WBC unification. Why would Deontay go fight on an application?
Ball doesn't lie. Look at who is mentally broken and who isn't. Look at who wins in a H2H fight and who doesn't.Comment
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Uh, 80 million or some such absurd number is why.
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Team Joshua never wanted that fight IMO. They didn’t want to risk the cash cow when they could keep eating fighting the likes of Povetkin, Pulev, Takam etc.
AJ himself would have taken it, fighters just fight, unfortunately his team had a grander scheme and it’s ultimately backfired. He’s now on the outside looking in without ever having a super fight with Wilder or Fury who in turn had three with each other.Comment
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"Ducked" is an overused and tedious word. Usually people are being provocative when they use it.Comment
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First of all, Joshua didn't offer any deal. DAZN wanted to sign Wilder away from PBC and the networks they do business with. DAZN offered Wilder the contract.
Second, Joshua's loss to Ruiz, which everyone who brings this up leaves out, would've blown everything up anyway.
Here was the deal DAZN offered Wilder.
https://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/...ure-dazn-offer
The deal was $20 million for Breazeale the early summer 2019 and $40 million for Joshua in the fall of 2019 in a unification ... but if Wilder had taken it ... Joshua was no longer the champion in the fall. Joshua had been dropped four times and quit against Ruiz.
So, had Wilder signed the deal, Wilder SITS ON THE SHELF from the Breazeale fight in May 2019 until ... when? ... not earning anything.
After Joshua beat Ruiz in their rematch, Joshua and Wilder would NOT have fought before early March, when COVID struck and they were all out for basically the whole year.
So Wilder would've gotten his $20 million for Breazeale and then he'd have sat on the shelf for, what, two years?
And that's if the WBC never stripped Wilder in that time for not rematching Fury (which the WBC called for in 2019, which you also left out).
So, had Wilder signed with DAZN, we may have very well gotten Wilder-Fury II and Joshua-Pulev (two mandatories) before we ever saw them in the ring.
Instead, Wilder got $10 million to fight Breazeale and $20 million for Ortiz 2, and he and Fury, after PPV, made $25 million for their rematch and Wilder reportedly made $20 million from the PPV for the third fight (40 percent of his 60-40 split with Fury).
So Wilder did fine. You don't have to worry about Deontay.
He ended up making more than he would've if he'd had to sit on the shelf for two years doing nothing.
Long story short, the $100 million DAZN deal would've basically been ruined when Joshua quit in Madison Square Garden.
Instead, we got the three Wilder-Fury fights (an All-time classic series). And we saw Joshua lose his title twice to a late sub and a cruiserweight. And DAZN saved $100 million.
Everybody won.Last edited by Dubblechin; 12-21-2022, 01:53 PM.Comment
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I think probably some people are just trying to discredit certain fighters. From what I've read, both sides made offers/proposals which were obvious not accepted or the fight would have been set up. Both sides probably have to take some blame for why it hasn't happened yet. There's still time though.Comment
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