Comments Thread For: Hearn Reacts To Wilder Calling Him 'White Man Milking a Brother'

[observer]

Wilder should stick to this own country making judgements.

The UK may speak the same language, but the police have no guns.

[oscar9992]

Cmon deontay, for being a heavyweight champion you're making miserable money, even Joseph Parker is getting paid more than your whole net worth combined for fighting Anthony Joshua. You can barely crack 2 million per fight, Eddie hearn is getting Joshua almost 15 million per fight..

Joshua made about $20 million in his last 2 fights, don't forget 1 £ is equal to 1,4 $ ...

[Fabes88]

Hearn is such a shyster. Tries to diminish his role and say "I just work for AJ", then goes on to boast about how he makes huge money with his fighters.
Wilder was distasteful in phrasing it that was, but I'm not gonna say he's wrong...

How can he not be wrong when aj is making the money he is and wilder is making pittance in comparison. I know you love wilder and hate aj and Hearn but you have to call a spade a spade here.

[Redgloveman]

The only problem i have with this is that while Hearn says Wilder should be making loads more money....hes the one saying Wilder isnt worth the money and should take the super small split when it comes to fighting Joshua. If you pay the man what hes worth...then he might start to listen to what you say.

I don't see any problem there - there's no contradiction.

The purse split is based, first and foremost, on the revenue you bring to a fight.

Hearn is saying that Wilder should be earning much more than he is, that doesn't mean that he should just give Wilder money out of charity. If he did that then he'd be breaching the terms of his contract with AJ by not getting him the best deal he can.

If Wilder was earring the kind of money that he should be earning, his split of the purse would be much higher. But he's not, so there you go

[TexasCowBoy]

deontayduckus wilderquackus is a green eyed duck

[Rockybigblower]

I don't see any problem there - there's no contradiction.

The purse split is based, first and foremost, on the revenue you bring to a fight.

Hearn is saying that Wilder should be earning much more than he is, that doesn't mean that he should just give Wilder money out of charity. If he did that then he'd be breaching the terms of his contract with AJ by not getting him the best deal he can.

If Wilder was earring the kind of money that he should be earning, his split of the purse would be much higher. But he's not, so there you go

So you are saying that if Ortiz had fought Joshua while he was contracted to Eddie that eddie would have given him 50/50 based on the fact that he would also need to give Ortiz the best deal he could?

[TheKempyy]

Imagine the uproar if it was the other way round.

Hearn is right though, Wilder should be a huge start considering he's an American Heavyweight that talks a great game. And he should be making more than a few mil per fight.

Apart from Money May, is there a huge PBC star currently?

[IMDAZED]

Eddie is totally right. Wilder is completely unknown in the US. Even those of his fights on terrestrial TV had ridiculous ratings.

Where do people come up with this stuff? Wilder just drew the highest ratings since 2015...another Wilder fight. And in between, he drew 2.5m viewers to his fights twice. Wilder hasn’t transcended the sport, but as far as the sport goes here in the U.S., he’s pretty damn popular and that popularity is growing.

[IMDAZED]

Hearn earns his 10%

Wilder wasn’t referring to how much Hearn (or Joshua) gets paid.

[Sparked_26]

Wilder wasn’t referring to how much Hearn (or Joshua) gets paid.

He was projecting US racial issues in a Brit. I know