Comments Thread For: Povetkin's Promoter: Wilder is NOT Getting Paid Until He Fights!

[umop-ap!sdn]

This is the reaction of a guilty man. If the testing positive was an innocent coincidental result of lingering traces from when he was using before the ban, they would be understanding and not deny pay as to save face and not seem su****ious. But knowing that they are guilty they are denying him the pay out of spite for being caught. They should have negotiated a fee to pay him and hope to than try to reopen negotiations with team Wilder when the tension settled. Money usually makes the pain go away.

[aboutfkntime]

Funny how that works out??? If you refuse to take a drug test that should count as an admission of guilt.

Under amateur regulations, it does.

I remember that female cyclist a few years back..... under the rules, the winners/finalists must all undergo drug testing immediately following a race. But after that woman won her race, she bolted..... she literally left the building, she ran out the door, jumped in a waiting car, and gone LMAO

She turned up a few days later citing a family emergency, and promptly requested her medal..... but she was stripped/suspended, and branded a drug cheat.

It's not the same situation at all, but yea amateur regulations are strict as fk.

[Bronx2245]

Very big test for the WBC! Will the new regime continue to accept CW championship fights. Will they strip Canelo? Will they punish Povetkin? Is Team Wilder free to negotiate a fight with a different opponent? Will boxing EVER evolve like the NFL and other major league sports? Where's the vision?

[aboutfkntime]

Pac agreed to take the tests over a number of negotiations, it was the cutoff point that was the contention which had more to do with Pac's phobia's and his ego getting in the way than anything else. Both guys let their egos get caught up in various actual and over the phone and over twitter negotiations. The rest is history.

Not convinced about that at all.

They seem like absurd reasons to kill a super-fight.

And then, suddenly..... those phobia's simply disappeared, and were never mentioned again..... not once.

Anyway like you say, history now.

[STREET CLEANER]

So what if he don't get paid. They are going to sue for training expenses. Why even roll the dice with that fight.

[krazyn8tive]

wilder sees his opportunity to run and he goes for it hahahahahaha coward. hes running from 70 nanograms of a drug that isn't scientifically proven to enhance performance. pathetic. JUST POSTPONE U PUNK!!!!!!!!!!! and let the testing continue.

povetkin easily KOs wilder. i want to see it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

^^^this right hurrrrrrrr^^^

[big_james10]

I don't know what the hell kind of stunt Wilder's team is trying to pull. If Wilder is not willing to fight, he should not be paid. Why does his team think he should be paid $4.6 million for backing out of a fight?

[big_james10]

The WBC called the fight off not wilder's team. Your like in every thread trying to defend defend these russian clowns.

How do you know that Wilder's team didn't ask or demand that the WBC call the fight off? If his team would write a letter to the bank asking the bank not to return the promoter's money after Wilder cancelled the fight, they will do anything.

There is no way in hell the WBC would CANCEL the fight and miss out on their three percent cut! This was Wilder and his team's decision!!!!

[Sweet_Science2]

^^^this right hurrrrrrrr^^^

If you are really Native that's a fuucking shame. You hate blacks but don't say anything about the people who stole your land. You should be stoned. You don't represent any of the Natives I know! You must have grew up trying to be white. You should be stoned with the biggest bolders

[Shadoww702]

How do you know that Wilder's team didn't ask or demand that the WBC call the fight off? If his team would write a letter to the bank asking the bank not to return the promoter's money after Wilder cancelled the fight, they will do anything.

There is no way in hell the WBC would CANCEL the fight and miss out on their three percent cut! This was Wilder and his team's decision!!!!

ESPN.com has obtained two separate written reports sent by VADA's president, Dr. Margaret Goodman, to both camps as well as the WBC, whose title Wilder holds, notifying them that Povetkin was negative for any banned substances in VADA-conducted tests on April 7, April 8 and April 11. So Povetkin, who has yet to ask for his B sample to be tested, apparently used meldonium between April 11 and his positive test on April 27.