Comments Thread For: Hearn Details Meeting With Haymon, Finkel About Joshua-Wilder

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NEW YORK Before he headed to Times Square for a press conference, Eddie Hearn had breakfast Thursday morning with Al Haymon and Shelly Finkel. England's Hearn, whose company promotes British superstar Anthony Joshua, met face-to-face with Haymon and Shelly Finkel for the first time to discuss the eventual showdown between Joshua (20-0, 20 KOs) and fellow heavyweight knockout artist Deontay Wilder (39-0, 38 KOs). Haymon, Wilder's adviser, and Finkel, Wilder's manager, will represent the WBC champion in all negotiations for the Joshua fight.
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[NahMean]

Good news looks like summer 2018 is guaranteed

[N/A]

We all know it's not next, nor should it be. But it's a positive that they're meeting already and hopefully it can be the second fight of the year for both fighters.

Credit to Wilder for drumming up interest to speed up the process.

Credit to Hearn for dropping the Whyte nonsense and agreeing to discuss the AJ fight instead.

Hopefully Joshua and Wilder both look dominant in their next fights so Joshua-Wilder can be as big as possible without any further wait beyond that.

[chepboxingking]

Joshua-Parker and Wilder-Whyte next. After that, they will fight each other.

[Sickmerch1990]

Only wilder was saying aj was running to gey his hands on the money from this fight as quik as pos just made up its being made now see aj didnt need 40 fights to get to elite level he knocked out best fighter of last 16years an all time great in his 18th fight as a pro wilder stil hasnt been in there with a top ten fighter thats gona tel by the 5th round if it gets that far aj highlight reel ko BOOM!!!

[miked85]

AJ started this mess by going on sky sports weeks ago and saying the fight could happen in 2019-2020

That felt like ducking

[sotgoda]

We all know it's not next, nor should it be. But it's a positive that they're meeting already and hopefully it can be the second fight of the year for both fighters.

Credit to Wilder for drumming up interest to speed up the process.

Credit to Hearn for dropping the Whyte nonsense and agreeing to discuss the AJ fight instead.

Hopefully Joshua and Wilder both look dominant in their next fights so Joshua-Wilder can be as big as possible without any further wait beyond that.

Agreed! It is either summer 2018 or end of next year. Every sensible Wilder fan probably knew this is what is most likely. The annoyance, in my opinion, is the stalling and condescending behavior by Eddie towards Wilder.

I think AJ's management team thinks he needs 2 - 3 more fights at minimum before fighting Wilder. AJ even hinted at that - but instead of owning up to that, Eddie comes out and says AJ wipes the floor with Wilder in 3. This is what I think finally pissed off Wilder and led to the increased trash talking from the latter.

[Butch.McRae]

Joshua-Parker and Wilder-Whyte next. After that, they will fight each other.

Whyte isn't getting anything lol let that go. Please, it's tired now

[Sosay]

Joshua-Parker and Wilder-Whyte next. After that, they will fight each other.

No one wants to see Whyte.
Wilder should fight J.Miller next if no Joshua

[chepboxingking]

Whyte isn't getting anything lol let that go. Please, it's tired now

Trust me, I don't want him to, But think about this; if you're Hearn, you offer Whyte as a pawn to fight Wilder in the UK, this way Wilder's name could get more recognition there. That would make Joshua-Wilder a much bigger fight. Wilder could careless because he's pocketing $2-3 million to fight a bum like Whyte.