Why do people act like Anthony Joshua ducked Wilder ?

[PRINCEKOOL]

I don't think he did back then. Before the Ruiz Junior loss? I think both Wilder & Fury were intimidated by Joshua.

With Fury being less intimidated, but still weary and more motivated to fight Wilder.

Both Wilder & Fury fought each other so they did not have to fight Anthony Joshua.

That is what the situation back then always looked like to me.

Still Wilder would of been a bad stylistic match up for Joshua, then and now. Wilder is a more dangerous fight for Joshua than Tyson Fury etc.

[kafkod]

There absolutely was, a lowball flat fee offer as usual. Just like Hearn made an offer heading into Usyk-Joshua II.

A lowball flat fee ... that was more than the fantastical fortune Deontay earned for fighting Tyson Fury?

[kafkod]

Please link to Finkel's tweet.

Find it for yourself you lazy fat cunt. Or get one of your "inside contacts" to find it for you.

[kafkod]

Ruiz didn't own the show. Joshua was on a fight by fight contract with DAZN and DAZN couldn't, by your own admission, guarantee a Joshua fight to Wilder. DAZN only had the rights to Joshua's next fight (Miller/Ruiz) and nothing more.

AJ wasn't on any kind of DAZN contract.

He had an exclusive contract with Matchroom and DAZN screened Matchroom fights outside the UK.

Get it now?

[War Room]

Both Wilder & Fury fought each other so they did not have to fight Anthony Joshua.

Whut?

[WBC WBA IBF]

Both Wilder & Fury fought each other so they did not have to fight Anthony Joshua.

You have it backwards. Wilder and Fury fought each other because Joshua was ducking the top fighters.

Joshua was the cash cow. Nobody ducks the cash cow. That's ridiculous.

[WBC WBA IBF]

A lowball flat fee ... that was more than the fantastical fortune Deontay earned for fighting Tyson Fury?

It was slightly more, but not enough for it to make sense to duck Fury when that's the fight everyone wanted to see.

[WBC WBA IBF]

Find it for yourself

It doesn't exist. You made it up. You're a pathological liar.

[WBC WBA IBF]

AJ wasn't on any kind of DAZN contract.

He had an exclusive contract with Matchroom and DAZN screened Matchroom fights outside the UK.

Joshua wasn't part of Matchroom's DAZN deal and did deals with DAZN on a fight by fight basis.

Which meant DAZN had no way to guarantee Wilder a Joshua fight. You continue to prove my point that DAZN's offer was nonsense.

[WillieWild114]

You have it backwards. Wilder and Fury fought each other because Joshua was ducking the top fighters.

Joshua was the cash cow. Nobody ducks the cash cow. That's ridiculous.

Wilder literally denied 100 million not to fight AJ