Comments Thread For: DiBella: Hearn Wouldn't Make Joshua-Ortiz; Don't Question Wilder

[The Big Dunn]

I really want this fight next but it doesn't look like that will happen. It's bad enough Joshua is talking about Big Baby Miller next. He is also a network free agent. That used to be a good thing but not anymore.

If Joshua and Hearn leave SHO for HBO that would make a fight with Wilder just about impossible. If that happens I don't see how anyone can give Joshua credit for making a deal that would avoid Wilder but yield fights with Miller Whyte and maybe Fury.

Joshua has the right to make whatever amount he can. I just hope he doesn't delay or avoid the Wilder fight.

[hitking]

Lou isn't on point at all. Because wilder has been fighting weak completion for years and years. And everyone has complained so much about that fact for so long, that he had no choice but to finally fight a live dog. And now all of a sudden, years and years into his career, he's to be admired for facing a real fighter???? I beg to differ, Lou

Wilder isn't taking that big of a risk. Ortiz is old as dirt and Wilder has physical advantages over him. He should really win this fight.

Wilder’s opponent in his upcoming fight is better than Joshua’s.

[Eff Pandas]

Remember when promoters just f#cking promoted fights and didn't spend so much time sh^ttalking and being critical of other promoters?

Respect to Hearn, but he does that bs too. Duva always dogging on PBC like a scorned gf. And obviously we got the usual suspects in Bob, Oscar and DiBella.

Loeffler about the only guy who acts like a professional of the big promoters.

[nick_viking]

Think Eddie might have gotten under Dibella's skin there ��

Tyson Fury might have outjabbed and confused Klitschko- but I don't think anyone could say he beat him from "pillar to post". Makes it sound like Fury battered him!

[Robbie Barrett]

Haymon is making Wilder fight Ortiz. There's no doubt in my mind Haymon promised Ortiz a shot for signing with him last year.

[N/A]

Remember when promoters just f#cking promoted fights and didn't spend so much time sh^ttalking and being critical of other promoters?

No I don't. I've been closely following the sport for 30 years. During that time, promoters have always been critical of other promoters. Don King and Bob Arum in particular would constantly trash each other.

Maybe you've been following the sport longer than I have and you can remember when promoters didn't spend so much time trash talking, if that time ever existed. When was it?

[filup79]

Haymon is making Wilder fight Ortiz. There's no doubt in my mind Haymon promised Ortiz a shot for signing with him last year.

Just like I'm sure Hearn promised Ortiz a Joshua fight against AJ when he signed with him only for Hearn to realize that Ortiz was too high of a risk for AJ. Ortiz was AJs mandatory but somehow Hearn never was willing to make the fight. Yet somehow Ortiz gets his mandatory stripped from the WBA for a failed test and the WBA replaces him with Povetkin (who has failed previous drug test) and Hearn is willing to make that fight.

[Robbie Barrett]

Just like I'm sure Hearn promised Ortiz a Joshua fight against AJ when he signed with him only for Hearn to realize that Ortiz was too high of a risk for AJ. Ortiz was AJs mandatory but somehow Hearn never was willing to make the fight. Yet somehow Ortiz gets his mandatory stripped from the WBA for a failed test and the WBA replaces him with Povetkin (who has failed previous drug test) and Hearn is willing to make that fight.

When was Hearn supposed to make the fight ******? Joshua won the WBA title and then was on the shelf unable to fight anyone until Klitchko decided to retire. By which point Ortiz had already signed with Haymon.

Ortiz lost his spot as soon as he signed the Wilder fight. Win or lose he would have been no longer mandatory. Ortiz chose the easier fight against Wilder rather than wait for a massive payday against Joshua.

[bluemax]

Dibella is correct. Joshua is a good fighter who won the lottery getting to fight first a stiff like Charles big mouth Martin then a washed up Klitchko. Joshua isn't out to make a legacy in boxing, he's out to make the maximum amount of money fighting the weakest competition relying on his carney barker Hearn to convince the public that he's the greatest in the business strictly because he makes more money. Joshua will once again play it safe fighting Parker while Wilder takes on all comers. It's not Wilder's fault fighters like Joshua don't have the stones to fight him. If Hearn really believes Joshua is the best out there prove it by having a 50-50 fight with Wilder. In my book Wilder is the best out there right now based on his demeaner and his want to fight all comers unlike mister media Anthony Joshua

[Robbie Barrett]

Dibella is correct. Joshua is a good fighter who won the lottery getting to fight first a stiff like Charles big mouth Martin then a washed up Klitchko. Joshua isn't out to make a legacy in boxing, he's out to make the maximum amount of money fighting the weakest competition relying on his carney barker Hearn to convince the public that he's the greatest in the business strictly because he makes more money. Joshua will once again play it safe fighting Parker while Wilder takes on all comers. It's not Wilder's fault fighters like Joshua don't have the stones to fight him. If Hearn really believes Joshua is the best out there prove it by having a 50-50 fight with Wilder. In my book Wilder is the best out there right now based on his demeaner and his want to fight all comers unlike mister media Anthony Joshua

Who has the better resume Joshua or Wilder? Joshua has half the fights Wilder does. Wilder is the one that's fought bums and cherry picked. His first challenge is because his manager Haymon is forcing him.