Comments Thread For: Alexander Povetkin Expects To Fight Anthony Joshua Next

[Mr Objecitivity]

Coming up to 30 days they gave Joshua-Povetkin to make the fight. No counter offer from Wilder, nothing. Wilder is waiting until Joshua has no choice but to sign for Povetkin and then will start talking crap. Wilder has no interest in actually making the fight.

Deontay Wilder would most likely get knocked out by either one of these guys. Joshua or Povetkin. Johan Duhaupas was schooling and out-boxing Deontay Wilder's sloppy ass until the referee prematurely intervening and stopping the fight, saving and protecting Wilder. Imagine if that was Povetkin or Joshua in the ring against Wilder. LMFAO!

[Rubber Ducky]

With Hearn planning to meet Haymon and Finkel on Thursday I guess we will know by the end of the week or early next week what happens next.

I suspect the Breazeale fight is all but a done deal and Hearn is wasting his time and the Povetkin fight will get announced next week.

[Ray*]

Am definitely ok with this fight, it seems Team Wilder aren’t serious about this fight happening next, they obviously want the fight but down the line. Which kinda expose the crying Wilder was doing months ago about no one wanting to fight him,

[The plunger man]

That's how I feel. I don't think there was ever intention to fight wilder, as evidenced by the flat fee but Eddie likes to present a certain image so here we are.

I don't have a big problem with Povetkin being next but the fanboy bickering on both sides has been obnoxious.

So tell me fox...wilder has been offered a career highest purse and if he beat joshua he stands to get all the belts and control the purse strings in the rematch where he can dictate who gets the highest purse.
Where is this counter offer then ? So much for wilder not caring about how much he got in the joshua fight ?
This offer is double what parker got and yet people are still not happy, why should joshua give wilder a percentage when 90% of the revenue will brought in by joshua and wilder knows this.
If wilders people really had confidence in what there fighter can create in terms of revenue the counter offer would have happened.
Now wilder is back to earning 3 million against a left over of wilders so who really dont't want it ?

[Ray*]

With Hearn planning to meet Haymon and Finkel on Thursday I guess we will know by the end of the week or early next week what happens next.

I suspect the Breazeale fight is all but a done deal and Hearn is wasting his time and the Povetkin fight will get announced next week.

By the sound of Lou di bella that fight is already done. They asked him that question and looking at his eye you can tell that fight has been sorted out. In terms of Joshua am sure they have already looked at doing his mandatories if Wilder doesn’t accept their offer.

[5000boxing]

Povetkin will stop joshua.. then we can see Povetkin vs wilder. Im tired of the games.

[Ray*]

So tell me fox...wilder has been offered a career highest purse and if he beat joshua he stands to get all the belts and control the purse strings in the rematch where he can dictate who gets the highest purse.
Where is this counter offer then ? So much for wilder not caring about how much he got in the joshua fight ?
This offer is double what parker got and yet people are still not happy, why should joshua give wilder a percentage when 90% of the revenue will brought in by joshua and wilder knows this.
If wilders people really had confidence in what there fighter can create in terms of revenue the counter offer would have happened.
Now wilder is back to earning 3 million against a left over of wilders so who really dont't want it ?

The counter offer isn’t there because they were caught off guard, they didn’t think they would get any offers from Team Joshua, that’s why they couldn’t even call Team Joshua bluff with that offer.

[Ray*]

Povetkin will stop joshua.. then we can see Povetkin vs wilder. Im tired of the games.

That’s definitely possible, but that doesn’t mean Povetkin/Wilder would happen. Povetkin, Parker, Haye, Wlad all these names were pro for all the time Wilder was a pro and Wilder never got to fight anyone of them for one reason or the other.

[Boksfan]

Wilder is SHOOK, he SCARED! Alabama FRAUD is a COWARD!

[Redd Foxx]

So tell me fox...wilder has been offered a career highest purse and if he beat joshua he stands to get all the belts and control the purse strings in the rematch where he can dictate who gets the highest purse.
Where is this counter offer then ? So much for wilder not caring about how much he got in the joshua fight ?
This offer is double what parker got and yet people are still not happy, why should joshua give wilder a percentage when 90% of the revenue will brought in by joshua and wilder knows this.
If wilders people really had confidence in what there fighter can create in terms of revenue the counter offer would have happened.
Now wilder is back to earning 3 million against a left over of wilders so who really dont't want it ?

This noise about 6x the pay is, no offense, just defensive babble from people with zero business savvy who like to get their script from Hearn. I've wasted too much time explaining this to people who refuse to acknowledge any points so I'll just save myself the time and not get into it for the 20th time. A flat offer is considered a pass in the boxing biz. There's a reason he refuses to offer a percentage. You know this.

Now, as far as the counter, how the hell are any of us supposed to know what has been countered or not? Blows my mind that boxing fans think they can refer to twitter for all negotiations. Hearn has crafted a legion of idiot fans over there. Not referring to you, you're usually pretty reasonable and put thought into this stuff.

In all honesty, Hearn's behavior SCREAMS to me that he doesn't want this fight for AJ now. I think it's a 50/50 fight and that when Eddie feels it makes the most financial sense for the risk, it'll happen. None of the current heavyweights do it for me so I don't really care who wins. But, I do want to see these guys fight.