Comments Thread For: Hearn Confirms Wilder's Offer of $50 Million For Joshua - But Explains Contract Was Never Sent
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Maybe we will get a Joshua Wilder exhibition match in 2033. By then they will both agree to just get in there and have some fun for the fans, no big shots.Comment
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I mean I can send Hearn a contract telling him I have 20 million Joshua to go 12 with me. You think he is going to say, ok, send the contract. Asking for the contract would not have happened if the offer were absurd.Comment
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IF they fight it will be a huge PPV success even without a championship belt on the line. There is such a polarization of Wilder and Joshua fans with both sides thinking that the other guy cannot beat their guy, that ticket sales and a large PPV audience is built into the event. Being a Wilder fan, I believe he'll win by a violent knockout. I suppose that Joshua fans believe the exact opposite.Comment
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If the 50 million number is true, Joshua should have taken it. Of course, it would be his swan song on the canvas with not many fight options afterwards. But what's the point in taking rum-dum fights for chump change UNLESS he's hoping for a shot at the Fury/Usyk winner (and hoping that will be Fury as Joshua has already come up short against Uysk.) Joshua's fights against Eurotr@sh boxers is getting old.Comment
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Bro. Hearn said send the contract. At that point they start negotiating. If the broad terms were idiotic, Hearn would have said, you aren't being serious.
I mean I can send Hearn a contract telling him I have 20 million Joshua to go 12 with me. You think he is going to say, ok, send the contract. Asking for the contract would not have happened if the offer were absurd.
In any normal circumstance (and I've been negotiating fights for decades), you agree to broad terms FIRST, normally in a one or two page deal memo or MOA, then the lawyers hammer out a long form contract.
Hearn refused to say one way or the other whether he found the term sheet agreeable. He was playing weird games. Nobody bothers to put together a long form contract BEFORE money has been agreed to. Hearn knows how fights are negotiated. He's not ******. He was just posturing for the fans.Comment
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I would agree on Wilder’s side that they avoided it, he had no unification fights and never attempted to get one. Joshua’s aim was to become unified champion, they had made offers to fight Wilder (which were repeatedly turned down and one of which was confirmed by Wilder) and made a fight with Fury (which collapsed on Fury’s side).Comment
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