Comments Thread For: Wilder: I'm a Traveling King, Joshua Don't Travel - Is He Worried?

[Madison Boxing]

Funny that you all ignore the fact that Deontay is leading the HW division in the category of accuracy. I understand tho that power and savagery captivates your minds and it leaves that impression on most of you haters ; Deontay has beautiful unorthodox boxing - the 'Prince' Nassem Hamed of the HWs.

jesus christ....

[Ray*]

When he beat your Olympic Gold Medalist in 2013, where was A.J then?

Sitting next to Richard schafaer watching the fight.

[Ray*]

B side begging the A side as usual LOL..

AJ making that P in the UK. He won't make the same kind of P in the USA. You need to travel because people in the US of A think deon is an nfl player.

King's don't need to travel. King's tell others to come to them... you a pauper with your 2 mil paydays when AJ basically close to 20 mil

Wilder isn't making any sort of sense, hopefully if he delays the fight enough, and built it up enough, the american networks would be interested enough to put up the monies needed for the fight to happen over there.

[Jkp]

Aj can't leave uk as that's where all his resources that assist with his heavy peds program are based.

[Roronoazoro]

When he beat your Olympic Gold Medalist in 2013, where was A.J then?

if you look close in the front row, you can see anthony joshua front row. he shook

[Boksfan]

So Windmill is new gypsy king? I was thinking it's Fury... Two useless clowns, let them fight each other.

[Bonduu]

if you look close in the front row, you can see anthony joshua front row. he shook

Lolsss, Wilder fan girl detected!

[Fabes88]

Wilder wouldn’t be travelling either if he could sell 90,000 tickets

[1hourRun]

Sitting next to Richard schafaer watching the fight.

if you look close in the front row, you can see anthony joshua front row. he shook

EXACTLY! he was a fan of the 'Bronze-Bomber'. A.J wasn't even a pro. Deontay Wilder had been already traveling the world but we still haven't seen Joshua leave the UK, PATHETIC!

[Holler]

He has 15 million+ reasons to stay at home. Just as Wilder has millions of reasons to pack his suitcase. Fights follow the money and at present the HW riches are across the pond in AJ's backyard.

AJ's team wouldn't mind fighting Wilder in the US if sufficient interest is drummed up to make it into a big ppv draw. It could pay off in several ways. Forget the 'legacy' nonsense that will be trotted out once the contracts signed. If it goes right it would generate a lot of money, whilst building interest in AJ in the US market and pleasing existing and potential sponsors if enough exposure results. Fights that do massive business also have a curious tendency to end in controversial circumstances with the result left open to question necessitating another bite at the cherry down the line, sometimes even a third.

All good news. However the reality at the moment however is that Wilder has yet to demonstrate sufficient box office appeal and if the fight were to take place at present it's unlikely that revenues generated would get close to what AJ is already making domestically. So why take the risk of fighting the undoubtedly dangerous Wilder in front of Adelaide Byrd for less money than AJ could make back home? Is he supposed to view Wilder as a charity case?

Hearn's analysts will be looking closely at the figures for Wilder Ortiz, speaking to the networks and the casinos and trying to gauge interest levels. Unless and until those figures make sense to them the fight won't be taking place in the US and Wilder will have to either accept AJ's terms to come to London when he's ready for him or continue to fight substandard opposition for relative chump change in his homeland.