Comments Thread For: Anthony Joshua Back in October, November - But No Clear Option

[Nightfall]

Are they ducking Wilder? Unifications are more lucrative

[Sincingship]

Are they ducking Wilder? Unifications are more lucrative

Wilder is probably in no rush to fight AJ until he can get a belt off of Parker. He also might want to fight against someone a bit closer to the elite level. Charles Martin is due a comeback!!!

[Scipio2009]

Funny how the manager doesnt mention Ortiz. I guess Ortiz is too dangerous for their liking.

Luis Ortiz has a bit of tha Rigondeaux stink on him (the last time Matchroom stepped up, he didn't perform all that well after he got the big hype up).

Hearn weighs the obligations, and he ranks them in terms of value to his fighter (note how the WBA has already made it clear that they're set to offer Joshua an open extension to not impede other fights).

Pulev is mandated a fight by the IBF, Klitschko has the rematch option, and a fight with Fury is likely to capture the Brits attention in a way that nearly no other fight will.

What benefit is there in even mentioning Luis Ortiz?

[Scipio2009]

If they make both title defenses due at the same time, which wouldn't surprise me cuz abc groups are corrupt + ****** then he just throws one belt away. It seems like the Pulev situation is being pushed more aggressively so far so if Klitschko & Fury isn't available then he's the guy. Ortiz is gonna have to wait til the first half of 2018 & that's only if Fury or the likely Wilder vs Parker winner (assuming that fight gets made) isn't ready at best I think or cuz Joshua drops the IBF belt over fighting Klitschko or Fury in Oct/Nov & only has the one belt by that point.

I fully expect Joshua to throw out one belt within his first year to go for bigger fights over bs mandatory fights (& I say bs mandatory fights in both cases cuz neither Pulev or Ortiz has fought anyone that should have reasonably given them a mandatory spot except in the rulebook of a corrupt & ****** abc group) so any belt he throws away will rightfully be thrown away.

The WBA has already made it clear that they'll delay his owed defense of their belt. the only hangup would be if Klitschko exercises his rematch clause.

[Scipio2009]

What fighter(s) could Wilder fight to speed up this process? I feel this fight should happen sooner than later, especially while they both are KO artitist sporting that"0".

Wilder fights Joseph Parker, to unify the WBC and WBO belts in the early fall (August/September), before settling the WBC mandatory at the end of the year (December/January).

Once you are down to two heavyweight champions, it comes to finding a time that works for both parties.

MGM Resorts comes to the table with a $15m site fee, Sky Box Office still likely does 1m PPV buys for the fight, and then we're left to see where things fall into place

[Scipio2009]

has the biggest win of his career and all the momentum in the world...waits 6-7 months to fight again. now is the perfect time to blast out one of the bum types he had been fighting his entire career

The man just sold 90k tickets at the national stadium; he's not going to go back to 18k-seat O2 Arena.

Every fight that Joshua has from here on out is going to be a blockbuster event; and, while he waits, don't act like he's not going to be on a media blitz with his face in front of folks.

[Eff Pandas]

The man just sold 90k tickets at the national stadium; he's not going to go back to 18k-seat O2 Arena.

LOL right. I think some cats are too into what boxing used to be or what it should be at the level Joshua is on.

Every fight that Joshua has from here on out is going to be a blockbuster event; and, while he waits, don't act like he's not going to be on a media blitz with his face in front of folks.

Yep the guy is filming an Under Armor ad today ffs. Joshua was big before & he's only on the road to getting bigger as we speak. And he's going to passively be in your face all the time via these ads now more & more + all the normal media stuff fighters do & the less normal stuff personalities like he is does.

[GreenMan93]

I will not have a problem with a rematch or a fight with Ortiz, but Pulev is not acceptable! If there's no rematch, and AJ chooses Pulev over Ortiz, I will view that as a duck!

Joshua makes a mandatory defense of the first ever world title he won so he doesn't get stripped and is considered to e ducking by you lmao... Its not like he can move up and capture the IBF in the next division.

[Kigali]

I honestly think he needs to man up and drop Ortiz (who knows). I think fans would get behind him after something like that.

Fans don't even know who Ortiz is.

[Tomjas]

We pay for which bundles we want. If you want sports you'll get all the Sky Sports channels etc. so you can watch all the sports & for Box office events we then pay that £20 ppv.

Then to watch stuff on boxnation you need to pay £12 a month for that channel. I don't pay for boxnation.

that $100 (£80) is for all of our channels though so you get about 1000+ channels to watch for that price.

Pretty sure that any big PPV fights that boxnations promotes will be in partnership with BT so you might have to factor that cost in