Comments Thread For: Joshua Reacts To Fury-Ngannou: He Should've Been Fighting For Undisputed!

[Dare7]

All of You asking where was AJ when Wilder was WBC champion is actually funny to Me coz Wilder clearly stated on Twitter that indeed he was actually offered legitimately more money to fighter Joshua but instead he chose to take small money to fight Tyson Fury coz it was what he thought the safest option.

Call AJ what you want but he never ducked anyone. He made real effort to fight the toughest fights in the division.

[PRINCEKOOL]

Fury won a shutout where he bored the life out of everyone and never looked in danger, showboated and was in Germany.

AJ entertained in a fight in UK which he nearly lost .



AJ should be commended for actually fighting people but I don’t think his win is more conclusive, even if it was a better fight and a KO.

Joshua's win over Kiltschko is more conclusive than Fury vs Kiltschko 'Joshua beat up and knocked Kiltschko out'.

Joshua fought Wladimir Kiltschko with a more dangerous and risky tactical fight.

He nearly lost and was decked, because he fought Kiltschko more offensively.

Fury did not beat up Kiltschko, never decked him or came anywhere near stopping him 'Fury got the win, but it was not a conclusive win on the level of Joshua vs Kiltschko'.

Wladimir Kiltschko vs Anthony Joshua 'Is the greatest Heavyweight title fight of the past 25 years'.

Note: You keep saying things like Joshua nearly lost, as if that is some kind of discredit. Well Fury nearly lost twice vs Deontay Wilder, and by the looks of it? Tyson Fury has not been the same fighter since that triology with Wilder etc.

[harry-greb]

Yeah but he ducked Wilder though in 18 to forge a career fighting 4 shot old men & a couple of cans & still lost before he finally had to face Usyk. Yes a year before Wilder turned down the dazn offer which wasn't a direct fight with Aj.
Let's also stay quiet about Aj also ducking the Fury fight demanding A-side status & commercial control. Delusional.

Funny how Fury & Wilder have had the greatest trilogy since Bowe Holyfield in the 90s & Kanye has never boxed either... There's a common theme there.

Don't get me wrong, Fury now playing the money first diva with Usyk he goes into the same duck pile as Kanye in my book. But I can't blame him taking the Saudis blood money to fight Ngannou, like you wouldn't.

So you're saying Joshua ducked wilder, but wilder ducked Joshua too?
From what I remember, shelly finkel offered Eddie and Joshua 50 million. They said they were interested and asked for a contract to be sent over. Finkel refused saying they had to publicly accept the offer before a contract was sent. So they had to publicly agree to the fight without seeing a contract? Strange way to negotiate a fight. No?

As for Wilder and Haymon, they clearly turned down the 100 million to fight brezeale and Joshua twice from Dazn. Now that's probably more to do with Haymon not wanting to see his marquee fighter move from showtime to dazn, but still. Wilder hasn't touched a 40 million purse. And he would have flattened Joshua in my opinion, twice.

As for fury wilder 1, wilders team thought fury was done so they jumped at the chance to fight him. It backfired. I'm not saying he would have avoided a prime fury but it would have been long protracted a side b side nonsense that we see all too often. (also Eddie has stated that they offered fury 40% to fight Joshua at the start of his comeback. He turned it down). Fury has never refuted this.

It all comes down to opportunity and timing. Wilder thought fury was week. Fury thought Joshua was week after the usyk defeats. Joshua thought usyk was weak after lacklustre chisora fight. And Fury definitely knows Usyk ain't weak so he's not touching him.
They are all to blame to some degree or other

[Marchegiano]

He ain't wrong.