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

[Boksfan]

He's arguing that Wilder > Wlad.

He's a cucking funt.

He's saying Wilder's resume is better than Klitschko therefore he deserves same money as Klitschko got. I don't know how to call that form of delusion.

[EnglishOxide]

How do you know Breazeale fight will guarantee 3 millions?

I don't, I was being generous.

[DougalDylan]

A flat offer is considered a pass in the boxing biz. There's a reason he refuses to offer a percentage. You know this.

No its not Ward took one and made a mint vs Kovalev and if you don't like the offer counter .. how long does it take to return an email.

Now, as far as the counter, how the hell are any of us supposed to know what has been countered or not?

i) Hearn says they haven't
ii) They aren't denying they have countered.
iii) Lou said they haven't countered (because it wasn't big enough and by email ??)

Seriously if you watch the Lou video, they ain't countered why is debatable.

In all honesty, Hearn's behavior SCREAMS to me that he doesn't want this fight for AJ now.

Everything Wilders side screams the opposite even some Wilder youtube fan boy sights have flipped on this one. Wilder should be screaming, offers coming back, Hearn is relatively keeping his gob shut so as not to spook them but Wilders sides reaction just feels wrong and to be honest unexpected.

Hearn is behaving the same as vs Higgins, difference is those guys got talking.
You could tell Higgins was delighted to get an initial offer even though he ridiculed it in public.

Hearn will make this fight its what he does he's obsessed it fuels his ego.

[oscar9992]

If Anthony takes this fight, Joshua is exorcized from the boxing world and will be labeled a ****en coward.

Well, he has no choice but to take this fight... Povetkin is his mandatory & he has only 30 days to finish the deal.

Also Wilder rejected offer made by Joshua's team.

[Akutalee]

Ducking wilder... Alabama fraud

[mlac]

would of loved to of seen a prime for prime Worm V Butterbean, one of those epic matchups like Tua/Tyson that will never be

[GFunk23]

I highly recommend that AJ fight Wilder before Povetkin. He will make very good $ for fighting Povetkin but losing to Povetkin will really damage his rep and I think Povetkin is a very dangerous fight for AJ. The Wilder fight may not happen if he fights Povetkin first.

[Redgloveman]

simple minded sheep. if wilder accepts the 12.5mil and ko's Joshua(which he will do), all hearn will talk about is how hes making money off of wilders back.

incase yall forgot, EDDIE HEARN WANTS TO SIGN WILDER. wilder doesn't want to sign to hearn. so in spite, hearn tries to indirectly control wilders career by trying to steer him straight to whyte and Joshua. why is that? its because wilder doesn't need to be directly signed to hearn for hearn to profit off of deontay wilder.

this is why hearn is constantly bringing up how he can pay wilder double his highest payday to face whyte(a guy we all know wilder will demolish). hearn knows whyte loses to wilder its enough of hearn to be able to say and know that wilders highest payday would have came from him especially when that number would still be lower that what aj makes.

what a lot of yall fail to see and realize is that wilder is fighting aj and hearn inside and outside of the ring. if wilder accepted the 1st deal they offered, wilder will win inside of the ring but hearn and matchroom will have won the mental part of the fight outside the ring by making substantial money which wilder IS entitled to. if wilder beats aj and earns 12.5 while over 80mil is divided between hearn and Joshua, will wilder haters be making videos about wilder being undisputed champion or will they try to shift their focus to talk about how wilder isn't getting paid like so & so...

also peep this. wilders 1st 40 fights undefeated all kos. wladmir klitscko lost fight #25 to a bum and had 3 losses by fight #45. lost his belts to fury, and aj gives him a 50 50 purse split. wilder is doing better in his 1st 40 fights that wlad yet they say wilder doesn't deserve 50 50.

Clearly you're a far more intelligent person than I am. So if you can answer a couple of points that would really help a simple-minded sheep like me.

Your argument is that if wilder accepts the 12.5mil and ko's Joshua, all hearn will talk about is how hes making money off of Wilder's back.

1. Supposing we agree that Hearn would just talk about how he made money off Wilder's back if he accepted $12.5m, why does Wilder's team not send a counter offer which would make the split more favourable? The Parker negotiations were long and drawn out and Parker's team ended up with a split which they were happy to settle with.
What Wilder's team is doing at the moment is apparently nothing; which as a bigger fan of Wilder than Joshua, p*sses me off.

2. I don't accept your premise in the first place. Why would Hearn brag about the split if his fighter lost? Name me ONE fight in the history of boxing where people remember the split more than the result of the fight. Name me ONE example where the B side beat the A side and the perception of the public at large is that the A side really won because they made more money out of the split... To my knowledge it has never happened because what everyone knows is that what really matters is who wins the fight; not the prior negotiations. You think in 20 years time if Wilder destroyed Joshua that people would say "yeah, but Joshua made more money in that first fight though"... No... that's ridiculous.

3. Your last paragraph is meaningless. Who cares who Wlad had beaten after 40 fights? Potential doesn't come into negotiations. When Joshua dealt with Klitschko he dealt with the totality of his record, not the first 40 fights. Just as he would deal with the totality of Wilder's resume...
Who has the stronger resume at the present time, Wilder or Klitschko?

[AdonisCreed]

I'd like to see him fight Wilder but I don't expect the fight to happen anytime soon that's just my expectation. I've read online that Hearn and Haymon are going to meet Thursday but who knows. If it happens that's great if not oh well.

[Ray*]

I highly recommend that AJ fight Wilder before Povetkin. He will make very good $ for fighting Povetkin but losing to Povetkin will really damage his rep and I think Povetkin is a very dangerous fight for AJ. The Wilder fight may not happen if he fights Povetkin first.

You have to take a risk in boxing, and AJ to his credit has so far and would be doing so again if he fights Povetkin next. Those are the sort of risk we fans of the sport should be willing them to take on. You can’t focre people to fight you at the end of the day. When you are making someone an offer 5 times their usual pay then you are excused in boxing terms if they duck that offer.