Comments Thread For: Wilder: I Don’t See Myself Staying in Boxing Too Long

[Mr. Philadel]

It would be smart of him considering he has made his money and the HW division is taxing on the body and mind. However, it's a bit disappointing seeing this business minded / oriented generation of fighters. It goes against the very nature of the fighting spirit but at the same time you can't blame them when you look at the grand scheme of things.

Wilder is a great guy, one of the nicest people in the sport, I'll respect any decision he considers most beneficial for himself and his family.

good post Big G!! ....the only Little G fan who I respect!!

[vitali1999]

He won't fight the Klitschko vs Fury winner because they are not tomato cans. If he fights Povetkin rather than being stripped it's only because he has to. After that if he beats Povetkin, he'll go back to bums. That's what you can look forward to with this guy

[nacho daddy]

It would be smart of him considering he has made his money and the HW division is taxing on the body and mind. However, it's a bit disappointing seeing this business minded / oriented generation of fighters. It goes against the very nature of the fighting spirit but at the same time you can't blame them when you look at the grand scheme of things.

Wilder is a great guy, one of the nicest people in the sport, I'll respect any decision he considers most beneficial for himself and his family.

gotta get off the drugs son. they have given you serious brain damage

[Luilun]

since when was floyd suppose to fight in the heavy weight division before he retired?

I can see you lack reading comprehension

[SeekDaGreat]

Me either, too many flaws technically. KO waiting to happen.

[Barcham]

Sucking them balls dry...
Come on man, have some shame, get off your damn knees.
What is this? Wilder fan-fiction?!

Wilder is a Haymon fighter. When ever Scipio sees one of them, he immediately drops to his knees and opens his mouth. Scipio's official title is 'Haymon Porta-potty'.

[kafkod]

To make a way for his daughter and family, when he almost believed that there was no way. He wasn't a boxing super fan when he was a kid, he didn't have any ambitions to being a boxing champion or win an Olympic gold medal, and he didn't give his life to the sport.

Public disclosure doesn't show every bit of money that was picked up (let alone what was left to the fighter after everyone else gets their piece), but Deontay Wilder made, at least, almost $1m for the Stiverne, $1.5m for the Molina fight, and will likely be PBC's first $2m man for the Duhuapas fight next week.

You add that Wilder-Povetkin is a gigantic fight (possibly PPV) and, if he were to win, Klitschko-Wilder being a PPV fight in the United States and you've easily picked up a pair paydays that would dwarf the Duhuapas payday. It's taken time, but over just those 5 fights, Wilder would've been able to clear $10m-$15m in fight purses.

If he were to beat Klitschko and become undisputed/unified heavyweight champion of the world ... he'd be a license to print money (only heavyweight he'd have to worry about, imo, is Anthony Joshua).

Las Vegas would definitely be interested in Wilder's fights, but Deontay would be the type of personality who you could take across the country and sell premium tickets for; simply line up the mandatory challengers and go.

Come late 2017/2018, the buzz behind Wilder-Joshua would finally break that fever, and you make that fight on PPV (in the new PBC model, every Wilder fight is likely to be on primetime NBC/CBS/ABC or Showtime and I'd imagine that sponsorship money plus the live stadium gate, plus the PBC money would make better sense than just going to PPV, for every showdown but those super elite ones), leaving the option for a series of fights based on how the first one goes.

You figure 6-7 fights, between the Klitschko PPV fight and the potential Joshua PPV fight(possible PPV series of at least 2), and Wilder's likely cleared $100m [a long bit of time to predict, but simply completing the example].

Payouts/other revenues/tax structure/etc are in flux, but Wilder could potentially have taken home $35m, before counting the Joshua series of PPVs (I imagine Joshua to be more of a boxing lifer, even though both guys had relative late starts with boxing).

Boxing wasn't the first love, you would've already made a ton of money, and (as America's undisputed heavyweight champion of the world) there are likely to be marketing opportunities galore [Nike, Addidas(Reebok), and UnderArmour are basically the three major players in sports apparel and I have no doubt that they'd be interested in working with Wilder].

Unless he just saws through Anthony Joshua (which I doubt), why keep fighting on? He'd be all of 32/33, made more money from the sport than he ever could've imagined, won a world championship, unified all of the belts, had a pretty good run with the belt, and would then be in a position where he'd have to slog through a few fights, get into a mandatory position, bide his time for another shot, and then face a guy he'd battled again (likely a 2-year process to get his own shot at the undisputed heavyweight champion).

He'd accomplished everything he set out to accomplish with boxing before the age of 34, leaving him the full rest of his life (having just over ten years in the sport, and not having too many out and out beatings should have him fresh enough to enjoy his fruits).

And they said the Great American Novel was dead.

You should turn that into a screen play and take it to Hollywood after Wilder gets KTFO by Povetkin.

Deontay could play himself - he's quite good at pretending to be the heavyweight champion of the world.

[.:: JSFD26 ::.]

It would be smart of him considering he has made his money and the HW division is taxing on the body and mind. However, it's a bit disappointing seeing this business minded / oriented generation of fighters. It goes against the very nature of the fighting spirit but at the same time you can't blame them when you look at the grand scheme of things.

Wilder is a great guy, one of the nicest people in the sport, I'll respect any decision he considers most beneficial for himself and his family.

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[creekrat77]

This is what pisses me off. Today we have all these fighters b*tching about how milking their career and making the most money they can is the utter most importance. Saying that boxers careers are short and they will eventually get beat bad and no one will care about them. But all I see is guys like Wilder and Danny fighting pathetic fights lining their pocket and simply retiring whenever they feel like it because they'll never lose against these mouth breathers. And here you got them acting like a victim with paulie defending these ****ers while everyother capable contender is putting their @ss on the line tryin to make a living. All these other gutless champs are strangling the competition. Its the mayweather strategy. Wait out the elite guys until they finally lose. Then say well I'm undefeated and here you have (insert deserving opponent here) losing to someone not as good as me. I call the shots, he was never on my level!

[.:: JSFD26 ::.]

good post Big G!! ....the only Little G fan who I respect!!

You do know its more than 1 person that runs that acct right? Or used to be not too long ago.