Comments Thread For: Wilder Manager Shakes Head at Joshua's $50 Million Request

[Chrismart]

Team Wilder say it's only a 12% offer and laugh it off.
Joshua basically says it's not a 12% offer because it's not a 100m fight. He laughs and says if it's a 100m fight let's do 50/50 now, as he'd snatch the 50m if they want to offer it to him and Wilder.
Wilder's team = 'see he said it's a 100m fight, so he only offered us 12%'.

What a weak attempt from Finkle. The people actually going along with it mustn't of read the full story, or indeed the Joshua story from yesterday.

[Oshio]

Oh it is obvious now that the problem is beyond Wilder. The problem is his handlers.... They are never sure of anything

[Gate keeper]

Apparently this is too hard to grasp for a lot of people.

Finkel calls 12.5mil as 12.5% so Joshua says ok if that’s really 12.5% then give me 50mil as that’s only 50% in their eyes.

Still, all of this could have been avoided if Hearn was negotiating with percentages rather than flat fees. Can’t blame him for trying but hopefully Finkels counter is in percentages and both teams get more realistic so the fight gets made.

I'm not sure you're understanding AJ's point. He's simply calling their bluff and forcing them to admit it's not actually a $100 mill fight, throwing that 12.5% claim out the window. Now the further away it is from $100 mill in the down direction, the higher 12.5 mill is as a percentage and the less ridiculous it is. He'll take 50% of $100 mill but not 50% of a much lower purse like 30 mill. And according to the interview, he believes the actual pot between the fighters only, not promoters, not the arena, not ppv percentages but just those two, could be 4x lower than 100 mill. On the other hand, it's looking like Wilder's team doesn't want a realistic percentage like 33% percent of whatever the pot ends up being, hence the flat fee offer. Like a previous poster mentioned, how big would AJ vs Ortiz have been compared to Wilder Ortiz? As AJ said, he's not a charity. To give Wilder significantly more of the purse is just giving away his own earnings and any metric of earning potential between the two will show that. Wilder claims he wants the fight but actually he just wants the money. Now Wilder did say whatever he takes now can be reversed in the rematch which opens negotiations. But like AJ said, instead simply responding with a counter offer like businessmen, they went to social media like amateurs. He says they're creating a counter offer. That's ridiculous, they should have had a counter offer within like 30 mins if they were serious. That's why AJ calls them clowns. They don't act professional or serious.

[kafkod]

AJ isn't serious. He knows wilder cant front that money. If he was serious with this offer he should state that "if the fight generates 100million, I will give wilder 50%" but he hasn't said that. he wants wilder to front it because he knows it can't be done.

Of course he knows it can't be done ... that's the reason he said it!

He wanted the fans to understand that people like Finkel and Richard Schaefer, who were saying "this a $100million fight" were lying.

[Pennsauken1]

With the ****** offer and demands, Con Hearn and the Robots way of saying, they are not interested in the fight, they are playing games with the public to make it seem like they want but all the smart people know what is really going on

[kafkod]

Team Wilder say it's only a 12% offer and laugh it off. Joshua basically says it's not a 12% offer because it's not a 100m fight. He laughs and says if it's a 100m fight let's do 50/50 now, as he's snatch the 50m if they want to offer it him and Wilder.
Wilder's team = 'see he said it's a 100m fight, so he only offered us 12%'.

What a weak attempt from Finkle. The people actually going along with it mustn't of read the full story, or indeed the Joshua story from yesterday.

Finkel is aiming his comments at biased Wilder fans who will automatically interpret anything he says as - "AJ is scared. He don't want that work"

It isn't supposed to make sense to anybody who might actually use their brain and think about it.

[Ray*]

Wow does this man know his maths? lol

[Thebrownbear]

The only fighters of note Joshua has faced is a faded Klitschko and Joseph Parker who he was very tentative against. Other than that it's been bouncers and cabbies. Surprised no one's noticed that Joshua looked like **** in his last two fights, and was life and death against a shot Klitschko.

[Pennsauken1]

It’s called milk the cow and keep serving those drinks at the soccer stadiums

[Straightener]

The only fighters of note Joshua has faced is a faded Klitschko and Joseph Parker who he was very tentative against. Other than that it's been bouncers and cabbies. Surprised no one's noticed that Joshua looked like **** in his last two fights, and was life and death against a shot Klitschko.

Takem is a solid fighter so was Breazeale don’t let the hate blind you

Whyte is decent too