Comments Thread For: Team Povetkin Ready For HUGE Deontay Wilder Purse Bid

[Jubei]

Bronze bumber is going to shi.t himself the closer the date gets, his daddy Al will try everything possible to evade the fight, but this time its not vs some small promoter with no backings, this time its against a equal opponent, the russians wont back down and this fight has to go down. Damn i had no idea "Your" american HW champ would be such a pussay.

[Bronzebomber]

Bronze bumber is going to shi.t himself the closer the date gets, his daddy Al will try everything possible to evade the fight, but this time its not vs some small promoter with no backings, this time its against a equal opponent, the russians wont back down and this fight has to go down. Damn i had no idea "Your" american HW champ would be such a pussay.

lol unbelieve, so do you have an inside scoop that deontay is scared and trying to put off the fight? Negotiations start in October. You must be a huge Tyson fury fan you sound like one.

[Clegg]

My guess is it'll be a drugs-related excuse Wilder's team come up with. Maybe they can say they won't fight in Russia because they don't believe there's fair testing there. The WBC are using VADA at the moment, maybe they'll offer full VADA testing but Wilder's side will reject that due to some flimsy excuse and insist on only USADA doing the testing. Either the WBC or Povetkin's team won't budge so Wilder will vacate and instead fight Arreola.

[techliam]

My guess is it'll be a drugs-related excuse Wilder's team come up with. Maybe they can say they won't fight in Russia because they don't believe there's fair testing there. The WBC are using VADA at the moment, maybe they'll offer full VADA testing but Wilder's side will reject that due to some flimsy excuse and insist on only USADA doing the testing. Either the WBC or Povetkin's team won't budge so Wilder will vacate and instead fight Arreola.

Wilder is just a top 10 HW without that belt though. Hes a top 10 Hw with a belt atm, he needs the leverage and relative relevancy that belt offers. They only want to fight him for his strap, not to have Wilders name on their record. Probably the clearest case of the 'belt makes the champion' ive seen for a while

[SN!PER]

Either the WBC or Povetkin's team won't budge so Wilder will vacate and instead fight Arreola.

That is crazy talk. Wilder is not going to vacate the belt.

If they train him to use a Larry Holmes style of fighting, he has a good chance to win.

[Eff Pandas]

My guess is it'll be a drugs-related excuse Wilder's team come up with. Maybe they can say they won't fight in Russia because they don't believe there's fair testing there. The WBC are using VADA at the moment, maybe they'll offer full VADA testing but Wilder's side will reject that due to some flimsy excuse and insist on only USADA doing the testing. Either the WBC or Povetkin's team won't budge so Wilder will vacate and instead fight Arreola.

If Team Wilder doesn't want the fight I suspect this would be the way to go about getting out of the fight. Problem I think is is Wilder is an also ran without his belt & he nor PBC has the juice to get the big fights for Wilder at HW with or without a title. Klitschko is running things. Povetkin gots a Russian billionaire on his side. Fury & Joshua will have the passionate UK dynamic with them. Outside of those 4 guys Wilder is fighting Manuel Charr & lower caliber guys on PBC for the next 3 years.

I really just think too much money is gonna be at stake here for Wilder to do anything besides fight Povetkin, on PBC or off PBC. If this fight doesn't happen for some PBC reason Wilder's career earnings are taking a massive hit.

[yoz]

Get your passport ready, Deontay. You're off to Russia

[yoz]

My guess is it'll be a drugs-related excuse Wilder's team come up with. Maybe they can say they won't fight in Russia because they don't believe there's fair testing there. The WBC are using VADA at the moment, maybe they'll offer full VADA testing but Wilder's side will reject that due to some flimsy excuse and insist on only USADA doing the testing. Either the WBC or Povetkin's team won't budge so Wilder will vacate and instead fight Arreola.

Yep.

This, or Haymon will try to secure a unification fight with Wladimir in the 'States. Frankly, though, that'd make little sense - not only would Wilder make more $$$ fighting in Russia, it'd be against a 'worse' boxer than Wladimir.

[Fury4daWIN]

That is crazy talk. Wilder is not going to vacate the belt.

If they train him to use a Larry Holmes style of fighting, he has a good chance to win.

Not if they train Povetkin to fight like a prime Mike Tyson first.

[Scipio2009]

Pretty sure the most corrupt nation for boxing is the US. You just see it as promoter play because youre numb to it all. Its that bad in the US, you expect bad scorecards most of the time



Boxing in Russia is big business. They are trying to establish boxing as a huge sport over there, and with the champions theyve recently acquired, they could probably pull it off. A heavyweight champion would be extremely marketable, and an undisputed rematch with Wlad would sell crazy. They dont shy away from spending because they practically dont care, not with those Gazprom links...

Crude oil is currently sitting at $40 per barrell, with natural gas not doing much better.

You add the ruble crashing and Russia basically being in recession now, methinks that you're overselling the Gazprom story.