Comments Thread For: Wilder Responds To Joshua: I'm The Biggest Threat, Not Fury!
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Wilder doesn’t negotiate fights."It is a great fight, it is one of the biggest fights in the world and everyone wants it. It will be 50-50 or else we don't see a fight."
"If they want to use splits, not to make a fight happen, then so be it. It is not like I am asking for more, I'm saying this is a 50-50 fight and that's how it is. In the rematch, then we can talk about 60-40 splits or whatever. That is more acceptable."
Eddie Hearn and Barry Hearn go on to hold a couple of more meetings with Wilder's team and they confirm team Wilder is demanding 50 - 50 split and not willing to budge, ultimately putting a halt to negotiations.
Thus we get Parker instead of no HW fight for months bc SOMEONE doesnt want to try and realistically make the fight!
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I agree. But I didn't say publicly, you did. Wilder was also privately begging Haymon and Finkel for the fight ASAP. He wanted the fight this March. Even though the fight would be worth more money later. He didn't care. Hearn, correctly, wanted to wait. Finkel & Haymon agreed with Hearn that the fight was worth way more later. But if Hearn had been willing to do the fight in March, Finkel & Haymon would have followed Deontay's orders to make it happen.
In Wilder's defense, even though on the surface it would be a poor business decision to not give the fight more time to build, if Joshua goes to HBO, the fight is dead. So it's hard to blame Wilder for wanting the fight now instead of later if he feared later would never happen.Comment
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1.34 million people tuned into Showtime for the first Stiverne vs. Wilder fight.
If nobody knew who Wilder was, why was it the 4th highest rated fight in the history of Showtime?Comment
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