Comments Thread For: Hearn: Wilder Turned Down $3 Million Offer To Face Whyte

[SchoolTheseCats]

Hes fighting stiverne who he beat 2 years ago in a total stinker uk fans know whyte and it would of sold the joshua fight more to them cos wilder isnt much of a name in the uk and thats were thr money is

He went after Ortiz who is the wba regular champ and why do y’all keep saying wilder the wbc heavyweight champion of world is unknown and need to fight over in uk to build his name but Breazeale who Joshua fought was this big superstar over there I guess

[GMAN SUPREME]

beyonce wilder is a clown.

[N/A]

wait what happened to the claims the offer was $4.5 million + US TV for a total of $6 million?!?

you guys just spent MONTHS claiming wilder turned down $6 million . . .

[richardt]

For a relatively unknown fighter in Whyte who has never done anything on the world scene except get knocked out by Joshua, he gets way too much press.

[Deus]

He went after Ortiz who is the wba regular champ and why do y’all keep saying wilder the wbc heavyweight champion of world is unknown and need to fight over in uk to build his name but Breazeale who Joshua fought was this big superstar over there I guess

Ortiz WBA regular champ? No he's not.

An Breazeale was a soft touch title defence, not the "mega-fight" that Wilder is supposed to be. Completely different circumstances.

I don't actually agree with the rhetoric that Wilder needs to build his name because at the end of the day the guy is never going to have a fanbase so the fight is probably as big as it's going to get with him running his mouth so much, but that doesn't mean that your 'argument' isn't a whole lot of wrong.

[kingstip9]

If true, it's a great offer
Dillian Whyte is ordinary as
Went life and death with Chisora ffs and knocked out by Joshua (oh and landed a great hook in which he temporarily hurt Joshua)

[bballchump11]

Why are people obsessed with Whyte? He's not that good.

[Dramacyde]

That Ofay Hearn is lying his ass off!!!

[Lou Cipher]

Of which he's had zero and was offered great money for another. Why not take it?

Oh I'm sure there were plenty of reasons. When a Champion goes into a situation like that with these corrupt promoters he'd be going to England and betting his belt that he could score a KO. No way he'd get a decision. Just look at how outraged the Furys were when Hughie won 3 rounds of a fight and they didn't give him the belt/ They probably skimped on the judges. It's probably about 100k per round per judge to score in the wrong direction. In that fight it wouldve cost Camp Fury about 1.8 Mil to get that belt. Hearn has no problem paying the 3.6 to guarantee every round because he knows he will make it back tenfold if his suck ass fighter has a fake belt.

[keith_head]

For a relatively unknown fighter in Whyte who has never done anything on the world scene except get knocked out by Joshua, he gets way too much press.

Yeah he'd get murked by any top 20 fighter hence why Hearn pulled him out of the Wach fight (who's not that good to begin with).

I think Wilder regrets not taking this fight because it should be easy money. I think he was trying to pass a hard bargain with Hearn and it backfired.