Since when does a title holder have to earn the right to fight another title holder?

[just the facts]

This is an A side vs B side thing not champion vs champion. JOSHUA decides when and where this fight goes down. Hearn will maximize his profit before putting him in danger again. 90,000 tickets against bums means Wilder sits and waits. Nature of the business unfortunately

Spot on post. Unfortunately this is the kind of scenario that killed boxing.

[Luilun]

It's nothing to do with earning it's about giving the fans the fight they want to see something that was lost after the 1990's

[jaded]

WTF?? arnt title holders supposed to fight each other?? what kind on new age bull**** is this?? And at Heavyweight at that..its not like they have move to another division or something..this is your home for the rest of your career..this is straight h0e ****

Larry...is this your VW Beetle by chance? And if so...who's that chick driving it?

[billeau2]

They're afraid Larry.

Kigali you are undoubtedly one of the biggest pieces of feces one encounters on these boards...but when your right your right. The heavyweights are all afraid risk anything... H oe sh it indeed.

[billeau2]

I have a better question for you....since when does a Champion (Golovkin) have to earn the right to fight the #1 contender? (Canelo)

This sport has gone to hell. Simple as that.

If the sport had real structure then tournaments would be organized like the middle weight tourney that was had, and it would be mandatory for any organization that had a legit champion to enter said champion. It could go to purse bid... and we would get things rolling for the heavyweights.

Oh well we can wait til both guys are slow and past it and argue over who would have prevailed I suppose...winner could open up a strip club!

[Lou Cipher]

winner could open up a strip club!

They should give out strip clubs instead of belts

[LetOutTheCage]

Big difference. Besides being a fellow belt holder, Wilder is viewed as one of the top two heavyweights in the world. No one without an agenda believes Saunders is a better fighter than Charlo, Jacobs or Canelo.

Its not a big difference at all OP is a well known racist. Ok if Wilder is one of the top heavyweights so is Parker, Ortiz, Whyte etc my point (which I keep going back to) is that Wilder has not done anything to show he is ahead of these other guys. Wilder has struggled with some pretty averagw opposition and the only fighter that both Wilder and AJ fought was taken care by AJ far easier. If you look at quality of opposition Wilder has done nothing to warrent any demands to be the next guy to fight AJ. As a boxing fan I genuinly dont see where all the hype for Wilder is coming from which is why I want him to show me something to make me actually believe he is a genuine threat to AJ

[Vasyl’s dad]

Tell us more about how you used to say floyd didn’t have to fight Margarito because he wasn’t known enough even though Margarito was WBO champion. You said Margarito had to earn his shot. He was champion at 147 from 2002 to 2007.

[Kigali]

Kigali you are undoubtedly one of the biggest pieces of feces one encounters on these boards...but when your right your right. The heavyweights are all afraid risk anything... H oe sh it indeed.

Says a piece of ****.

[Chaos]

Since one is a paper champ with zero drawing power and no serious defenses of his title.