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

[creekrat77]

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.

If Wilder can't handle the heat I have no problems with him retiring from professional life. But if it's clearly because he can't handle the heat then that is pretty pathetic. He has been merking bums in the ring for years, savagely koing them, and seems to be indecisive now that he is at the elite level with level competition

[Dean_Razorback]

well, look at the bright side, 10 years is a long time, maybe in that lapse he can actually fight someone worth of it

[MrRolltide91]

Its his career

[NEETzsche]

i don't like this kind of talk. we heard it from haye and look how he reacted when the going got tough. this is what separates wlad from his contenders. wlad is 100% all-in on boxing. he faced worse adversity in his career than haye, wilder or fury did and he picked himself back up became great

[jqSide]

The competition must be getting tough for Wilder to handle. He used to fight four times a year fighting cab drivers. Now he wants to get out of the sport asap.

[BWC]

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).

Wilder will make enough off the Povetkin, Wlad fights to be comfortable for life. The Wilder-Joshua series will make them both probably the highest earning athletes in the world.

Who else is there? Jennings? Fury? Parker? 5-6 more fights and Wilder will have fought everyone of note.

Who wouldn't want to get out before serious brain damage sets in?

[-Antonio-]

You don't need to tell us this. We all know you will be knocked out soon enough.

[boliodogs]

I don't care if he stays in boxing or not. Right now he is about the worst cherry picking champion in boxing. If he ever fights and beats top 10 world rated heavyweights I will give a damn about him. He

[Travycat]

After you thinking that Wladimir was insulting you during his interview the other day, you need to save all of the brain cells you can : )

[Scipio2009]

Haters can hate all they want.

All I ask is that folks stand by there words when things go left, rather than trying to pretend that they said no such thing.

So, when Golovkin gets destroyed by Andre Ward, or when Kovalev starts giving up his belts to avoid getting one-punched by Stevenson or mauled by Beterbiev, don't go into hiding.

Stand by your statements, take the criticism of your opinion as a stand-up individual, and wallow in that ****.