Comments Thread For: Warren: No Surprise Hearn Backtracking on Joshua Fight on 7/9

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Like Warren and can't wait to see both fights, but bringing up AJ's criminal record and previous ASBO was a bit below the belt. He was young and what boxer really has a spotless background.

It's relevant because Sky & Hearn are marketing Joshua as some blue eyed choir boy and portraying Fury as the devil reincarnated.

Warren quite rightly is pointing out the hypocrisy. Joshua by many accounts used to be a real scumbag. Fair enough, he's tuned his life around, but i agree with Whyte, he's a FAKE.

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i for one cannot understand the brits fascination with anthony "biblical" joshua essentially he was gifted the gold medal than he was gifted the title that rightly belongs to tyson fury to be the man you got to beat the man something biblical has never done and never will do he has fought a retinue of bums since turning pro he got his paper title off a bum hey brits wake up tyson fury is the world champion . what is the fascination with biblical ? i believe it's a bunch of gay wankers in love with his muscleman persona i mean thats what the gays like right? and evidently thats what they like in the UK draw your own conclusions

Wow you seem to know alot about what Gays like, we might be forgiven for thinking you know a little too much. you also have an anger that masks your true feelings. Time to step out of that closet you little otter.

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This is about right. 90% of that audience at AJ fights are casual fans and people who don't even watch boxing. He is heavily marketed to that audience, Hearn makes no bones about it either to be fair to him. Even celebrities turn up that have never been spotted at a boxing event before. It's a totally different audience.

Most actual boxing fans know the real situation.

Correct. Go on twitter and check some of the profiles out of the AJ/Hearn arse lickers. They're all football fans! They don't tweet about boxing, just Joshua.

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Oh yeah, you can tell by the chanting! they just put on the popular sing-along songs and they love it. A large % are women as well, dressed up to the 9's. It's a good night out these events and Sky have done a good job getting boxing up to that level. I'll never argue that point. I just don't care about that stuff when it comes to the actual fights and fighters. It's all good in the grand scheme of things though. It allowed Hearn to pay an American $6million to hand over a belt for his fighter. No one else could do that

6m is that true ?

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6m is that true ?

I just looked it up, and espn stated reports are claiming martin got paid £6mill ($8mil)... If those reports are accurate then WOW! to be a complete nobody in the boxing world, get lucky enough fighting for the ibf title, even more so when Glazkov got injured, and then get paid that much just to show up??? Martin is on some serious streak of luck! Props to him, he probs retire and never box again. I thought it would be more like $1-$2mil max.

Link to espn report:
http://www.espn.co.uk/boxing/story/_/id/15137916/anthony-joshua-charles-martin-just-here-make-english-money-quick

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I just looked it up, and espn stated reports are claiming martin got paid £6mill ($8mil)... If those reports are accurate then WOW! to be a complete nobody in the boxing world, get lucky enough fighting for the ibf title, even more so when Glazkov got injured, and then get paid that much just to show up??? Martin is on some serious streak of luck! Props to him, he probs retire and never box again. I thought it would be more like $1-$2mil max.

Link to espn report:
http://www.espn.co.uk/boxing/story/_...sh-money-quick

I wasn't questioning it more so I found it unbelievable, wow. Thanks. I'm astounded, genuinely.

Hearn will make this back by soft defences versus Molina and Scott I guess, then we're to expect Wilder or Klitschko once he has reacquired his belts, I believe it plays out something like.

Surely Hearn will continue to do optional defences with Haymon as he has these last few years, Molina could be looked upon as challenging right now especially by the British fan base Joshua has acquired. I guess these are the best match ups we can hope for.

Wilder could be a huge fight and give Joshua a form of equal parity going in against Klitschko or Fury with both holding two titles a piece.

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Yep most likely the way its gonna go, i dont blame hearn for doing so as i think a.j is still quite raw and has alot to learn, so far hes had it all his own way besides the bit of trouble whyte had him in. Right now i think haye and Fury beat him, in 12-18 months time maybe them fights become more 50/50. As long as he fights ranked contenders that will actually put up a fight or atleast have a punchers chance then im cool with that. The 3 defenses Wilder made were unknown opponents at the time when he picked them. Either way Hearns got his cash cow and hes definately going to milk him for as long as he can.