Comments Thread For: Joshua-Klitschko Rematch Could Be on PPV in United States

[Scipio2009]

ward is more famous in america than joshua and he is a gold medal clean cut family man..... He also speaks better than joshua and wlad combined..... His ppv did like 125k lol.... So as i said they would be lucky to do 200k.. Im predicting 100k

Anthony Joshua is a 250lb heavyweight, who flattens everyone he's faced, and has UK and US TV partners both looking to strap the hype rocket to his back.

I'm about as big an Andre Ward fan as anyone here, but Andre is still a light heavyweight boxer-puncher, who had a long layoff and was fighting for a network that was pretty openly trying to set him up for the fighter that they actually were looking to push.

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[Raggamuffin]

Joshua just isn't the type of fighter who can conquer America. I mean if it happens, he's rematching possibly a 42 year old Wlad. Disgusting. Joshua was lucky Wlad was 41. I don't see it in Joshua. To me he is a ko waiting to happen.

[oscar9992]

Does Hearn realise no one in US wants to watch PPV with a prospect vs. boring ass Klit?

[JakeTheBoxer]

Funny thing is that the king of PPV in USA is boring ass Floyd..

[Deus]

Joshua just isn't the type of fighter who can conquer America. I mean if it happens, he's rematching possibly a 42 year old Wlad. Disgusting. Joshua was lucky Wlad was 41. I don't see it in Joshua. To me he is a ko waiting to happen.

Showtime appear to disagree with you considering they're investing a lot in Joshua and have been desperate to get him over to the States.

Equally if there was no appeal for Joshua over there then MGM wouldn't have been bidding to host the rematch, especially considering other options were Nigeria and Dubai, both of which would bring in bucket loads of cash just on Joshua's name alone.

[mmakilla]

Anthony Joshua is a 250lb heavyweight, who flattens everyone he's faced, and has UK and US TV partners both looking to strap the hype rocket to his back.

I'm about as big an Andre Ward fan as anyone here, but Andre is still a light heavyweight boxer-puncher, who had a long layoff and was fighting for a network that was pretty openly trying to set him up for the fighter that they actually were looking to push.

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so your ppv prediction for joshua vs wlad? is what?

[jas]

wont sell .

[Randall Cunning]

so your ppv prediction for joshua vs wlad? is what?

Didn't Hearn say he could have done at least 300K if he was promoting Ward/Kovalev? Time for him to put his money where his mouth is, should be the benchmark if hes saying he can do better

[mmakilla]

Didn't Hearn say he could have done at least 300K if he was promoting Ward/Kovalev? Time for him to put his money where his mouth is, should be the benchmark if hes saying he can do better

thats right thanks for reminding me about that lol! so if he said ward vs kov would have done 300k so im guessing joshua vs wlad 600k minimum with eddie hearn promoting right?

[Raggamuffin]

Showtime appear to disagree with you considering they're investing a lot in Joshua and have been desperate to get him over to the States.

Equally if there was no appeal for Joshua over there then MGM wouldn't have been bidding to host the rematch, especially considering other options were Nigeria and Dubai, both of which would bring in bucket loads of cash just on Joshua's name alone.

They can invest all they want. Interest is one thing, ppv success is another. If i's a ppv fight it will tank. He's not a worldly fighter and beating a 42 year old Wlad in the states won't bring him appeal here in the states. Beating Wilder will.