Comments Thread For: Hearn: I'd Like Wilder To Fight Whyte - Winner Gets Joshua Shot

[IronDanHamza]

I think this makes sense.

Joshua-Parker

Wilder-Whyte

Winners fight.

If Wilder were to impressively beat Whyte then his UK profile will go up a lot and make the AJ fight way bigger.

If Whyte wins, grudge match vs AJ and unification will be massive.

It makes perfect sense.

[Pigeons]

Common sense really. Gets exposure for Wilder in the UK and he gets a good pay day. Wilder is afraid of Whyte though. Only ******ed Wilder fans can't see it.

[Curt Henning]

I know there's lots of fanboys on here who don't want to hear it but most UK fans don't know much about Wilder, or should I say most UK casual boxing fans don't.
I'm not gonna bash wilder he seems the best out of everyone bar AJ in my mind.
If he did fight Whyte and beat him that would get him noticed by more UK fans and would build the fight between him and AJ a lot more, and at the end of the day that's what Hearn wants, more ppv buys.
It's simple, only fanboys can't see it.

im not really buying it...

one one hand you say they dont know wilder.....then u say hes prob the best hw aside from AJ....

now i know the UK boxing fans are rabid and love it.....so u cant tell me theres an american HW thats prob the best HW aside from AJ and they dont really know who he is

the joshua/wilder fight sells out and it sells itself

now im not going to say he shouldnt fight whyte...but if he doesnt i dont think anyone cares or we are missing anything

[club fighter]

I said it before, several times, Whyte is a good measuring stick for Wilder in perspective to getting the shot at unification with AJ. On top of that, whooping Whyte in front of a UK audience would really get Europe on board for the unification bout and possibly get it to happen sooner, because I agree with the other statement Hearn made. It has to happen in the UK, Wilder just doesn't have the US fan attention yet.

I wish he was fighting Whyte now instead of Stivern.

[mmamachine]

im not really buying it...

one one hand you say they dont know wilder.....then u say hes prob the best hw aside from AJ....

now i know the UK boxing fans are rabid and love it.....so u cant tell me theres an american HW thats prob the best HW aside from AJ and they dont really know who he is

the joshua/wilder fight sells out and it sells itself

now im not going to say he shouldnt fight whyte...but if he doesnt i dont think anyone cares or we are missing anything

I never said I don't know who Wilder is, learn to read, I said casual UK boxing fans don't and it's true.
I have loads of friends who watch boxing and have never seen wilder fight, only recently are they hearing his name.

Joshua wilder does sell itself to anyone who knows boxing but more casual fans will buy the ppv if they see wilder in action, especially against Whyte who a lot of people over here rate quite highly.

[RapidSon]

Wilder turned down 3+ mil for a Whyte fight. He's now fighting for 1 mil. Wilder be ducking Whyte, you know it.

The Fact still stands AJ is a champion and should be talking like one. Yall UK fans sound b****

[mmamachine]

UK fans are very patriotic and if wilder did beat Whyte they'd want to see Joshua get some revenge.
Seriously if you can't see that wilder fighting and beating Whyte will seriously raise hype levels of wilder Joshua then you really are thick.

[mmamachine]

I'll tell you his for a fact too, Whyte would give wilder his toughest fight so far, he's better than Stiverne ffs.

[Curt Henning]

I never said I don't know who Wilder is, learn to read, I said casual UK boxing fans don't and it's true.
I have loads of friends who watch boxing and have never seen wilder fight, only recently are they hearing his name.

Joshua wilder does sell itself to anyone who knows boxing but more casual fans will buy the ppv if they see wilder in action, especially against Whyte who a lot of people over here rate quite highly.

like i said before..im not buying a rabid uk boxing fanbase doesnt know who the best american HW is especially since wilder/joshua has been talked about for over a year......when joshua linked up with showtime everyone knew what they were steering towards....id say if you friends dont know wilder than your friends are probably on the very low end of "casual"

no offense to whyte...but what has he done to be "rated quite highly"? beat chisora? beat brian minto?

seriously not bashing whyte.....but its like saying "we rate eubank jr quite highly over here" when his wins are all domestic level comp

[RapidSon]

Whyte is going to fight for the WBC silver belt so if he wins Wilder cannot avoid him this time

I wouldn't call it avoiding if Wilder is calling out a champion but Hearn keeps tryna throw Whyte in his face when Wilder aint a simple ranked opponent??

If it comes to Wilder having to face Whyte because of mandatory purposes then so be then he has no choice. Wilder wants greater no lesser.