Comments Thread For: Wilder: Joshua is Not Worldwide, Nobody Knows His Name in U.S.

[yoshik]

Well, we know this - He's made ten times the money you have, sells out 90000 seat arenas and has all the belts but two so it ain't all bad. How's the Birmingham stadium filling up for you?

[Mike_R]

There's like a 50 foot tall picture of Joshua inside the nearest ****'s sporting goods store in my town.

That said, I don't think anyone else in the store knows it's him.

[yoshik]

Wilder is likely more popular in the UK than the US to casuals too. But his popularity is starting to increase stateside. A KO of Ortiz will go a long way.

He'll will likely register Showtime's highest viewership since the "free trial" era in a few weeks. I'm still shocked by his ratings for Stiverne II. That number was the second highest of 2017 at 887,000, second only to Garcia-Broner at 937,000. So people are tuning in for him.

No ****? Where did you get these golden nuggets of fact? Don't tell me you've been overseas?

[yoshik]

AJ is far more well known in the UK than Wilder is in the US.

However, there are plenty of people in the US that know Wilder and don't know AJ. Wilder has been headlining Showtime, NBC and FOX for years now, with millions of people having seen him.

AJ's fights have been in the afternoon, with a few hundred thousand watching.

There's no doubt AJ is the far bigger star worldwide, but in the US, Wilder is definitely the bigger star. AJ's US viewership is clearly far lower than Wilder's.

Yep, selling out arenas that hold 90000 people shows you he doesn't have a fan base. Let me break it to you. The population of knowledgeable fight fans outside the US dwarfs those inside the USA. Just sayin.

[Marvlus Marv]

I very much like Wilder because he is a good man and has obviously been an absolute rock for his eldest daughter, but he's about as badass as my aunt. If he adopted a cooler persona, I feel it would benefit him in terms of his popularity.

[Dr.Cool]

Wilder: "Joshua is Not Worldwide, Nobody Knows His Name in U.S."

Same thing applies to you doe, Deontay.

The difference is Deontay wants to fight AJ and AJ wants to fight everyone EXCEPT Deontay. Deontay isn't saying he's known worldwide, but to do that he needs to fight AJ. And he wants to do that. But AJ is hiding in the U.K. calling out Jarrell Miller.

Pretty big difference. One's a real champion wanting to fight the best and the other is ducking with increasingly ridiculous excuses.

[rickJen]

There you go.
Beyontay admits AJ is a nobody in the US.
That's why the fight gotta be in the UK.
B-side Wilder gets 20% split.
That's what he deserves.

[NahMean]

Don’t know about America as I haven’t been there since 2010 but I’ve been to Turkey, Dubai, Morocco, and Germany and AJ is absolutely massive there.. In Dubai there were posters of him everywhere.

Either way AJ is a star in boxing and Wilder isn’t.. Wilder is in no position to criticise how well known AJ is because he’s unknown himself. America is more interested in AJ than Wilder.. Both HBO and Showtime are bidding for AJ and giving him multi fight contracts, not even the American Deontay Wilder gets multi fight contracts.

Just the other day he said AJ needs to come to the US as the major money is in US.. AJ is making major money fighting in the UK, Wilder is not making anywhere near that in the US so why even make that comment?

[Dr.Cool]

Yep, selling out arenas that hold 90000 people shows you he doesn't have a fan base. Let me break it to you. The population of knowledgeable fight fans outside the US dwarfs those inside the USA. Just sayin.

The money in the U.S. dwarfs that from outside the USA. Everyone knows that. Knowledgeable fight fans don't pay squat, it is the casuals that count. Floyd Mayweather made almost half a billion in just two fights. In the USA. Just sayin. Make $10 mill in the UK with no legacy, or make over twice that and a true legacy.

And also, any "knowledgeable fan" knows that AJ and Wilder are the only two hw's that matter and either one in any fight that isn't against the other is a mismatch. Any knowledgeable fan knows that Wilder wants the fight and AJ does not.

Let me break it to you. AJ is ducking Wilder and the whole world knows it. Especially the knowledgeable fans. Get off AJ's c^ck and demand he step up and fight the best. Instead he will come to the USA for Miller but not for Wilder. The entire world calls that being yellow, being a scared chicken. Just sayin.

[juggernaut666]

The irony here is Wilder isnt popular bc of his fights , hes popular for tweets and you tube media talking about Joshua so that right tells you whos more popular any place on this planet .# FACTS .