Comments Thread For: Hearn: Wilder's Team Selling Him Dream of Upside That Doesn't Exist

[Just looking]

Basically let wilder carry on making 2 million a fight and let joshua keep making his 15 million a fight.....wilders team are acting like 2nd hand car salesmen.
Joshua has povetkin and fury.
Joshua will not fight wilder in the states its riddled with corruption towards the home grown fighter.
Let wilder come running

So you are advising Joshua and Hearn to duck Wilder. Got it. They need to make more money before sending Joshua to hospital

[chrisJS]

This is what it comes down to for me, no sane person would be put 50m down and then cancel a meeting scheduled to iron details out. The “He has to agree” to it first makes it sound so amateurish too.

I don't even think it's "a great PR move" and Hearn said. The people that are pro-Wilder and/or anti Joshua are going to chose the way they want to interpret everything regardless of what happens. Switch the roles and they'd be irate at the thought of Hearn pulling the plug on a meeting and saying $50m accept it and then maybe we will give you some details.

[CLUE]

“I’ll give you an example. Maybe I can get $80 million from Saudi Arabia to take this fight there. Do I want to do the fight over there? Not particularly. Does Anthony? No. Maybe I could get a sponsorship of $15 million from a new virtual currency that might be a bit dodgy. Do I wanna have my fighter associated with that brand? No, I do not, regardless of the money.

“So maybe they wanna charge $100,000 for a seat in the front row. Do I wanna be involved with that? No, I don’t. So it’s about protecting our business, Anthony Joshua’s brand and all the things that we’ve dealt with along the way. And until we know how they intend to raise that finance, we can’t even begin to make decisions.”

WOW!! WTF! Now talking about branding, and not accepting money from certain people and places.

[Tha Kid]

Who has been getting fighters paid Al Haymon or Eddie Hearn? lmao! Hearn gets one star and now he thinks he’s god of boxing. Pretty sure Deontay is going to be compensated fairly well.AL Haymon has been involved in 3 of boxing biggest ppvs. Finkel has managed stars like Pacquiao and Tyson. Lou DiBella was an executive at HBO for 11 years and was one of the masterminds behind Boxing after Dark. I think those three know if a fight is an 100m dollar fight or not. I highly doubt they would over estimate a fight. How many big ppvs Bearn been involved in?lmao

That slimy white snake promoter doesn't want the fight to happen

[Noelanthony]

Hearn is a fraud, Al Haymon is the same dude who made Mayweather vs McGregor, what does his dum Brit and all the other scared dummies think Wilders team can’t make this fight happen for us, the boxing fans, Eddie is a con artist liar

I will try and make sense of your rant and assume you wanted to abbreviate the word Dumb.

Whether u are team wilder or team Joshua both camps should shoulder some of the blame why this fight has not been made. I wish they can put their egos aside and just get this deal done.

[Butch.McRae]

I need to do that **** too. How can I do it?

Edit: I got it.

Glad you posted this. Forgot we could do that. I figured it out too lol good look

[Chrismart]

Anthony Joshua vs Deontay Wilder talks have taken a 'bizarre' turn, says Eddie Hearn

Negotiations between Anthony Joshua's and Deontay Wilder's camp have taken a "bizarre" turn, according to promoter Eddie Hearn.

Hearn believed Joshua was "closer" to fighting Wilder after the WBC champion revealed his offer (a 50-50 split with a guarantee of $50m to Joshua) on Instagram on Wednesday, to which Joshua - the IBF, WBA and WBO title-holder - replied, "let's roll".

But the deadline on Wilder's proposal expired at midnight on Thursday and although Hearn wanted negotiations to resume on Friday, he said talks have hit numerous hurdles over the last 24 hours.

Speaking to Sky Sports News, he said: "It's all very bizarre. I returned the email of Deontay Wilder and said we are very interested in making this fight, please send us a draft contract.

"He replied and said 'you have to accept the fight and then we will send you the contract'. I've never known anything so bizarre since I've worked in boxing.

"I had a meeting with Shelly Finkel scheduled for Thursday, he cancelled that meeting. I requested a meeting for today (Friday) and he emailed me, while also emailing the entire press world, saying 'there is no point in meeting it would be non-productive - we have to accept the deal first.'

"It's always nice to call someone's bluff. What we've done is called their bluff here, and they won't even meet to talk about the deal.

"It's bizarre, but we are talking to other people as well. There's probably about 50 people trying to make this deal at the moment. You've got Shelly Finkel, Al Haymon, Jay Deas and other people.

''When I was on stage I had texts from two people who I had not spoken to for about a year, saying 'I can help you make this fight'.

"We asked for a meeting to try and talk about the offer - they rejected it. We asked for a contract - they rejected it. I don't know what more we can do, we can continue trying.

"I believe the boxing world has realised that this was a PR stunt turned disaster. We do want the fight and conversations will continue.

"Dominic Breazeale tweeted this morning 'I have been told I am fighting Deontay Wilder in August'.

''Is this whole thing a bit of profile building for Wilder? We hope not, we want the fight."

[Chrismart]

❌🗣️ Eddie Hearn has confirmed that Deontay Wilder's team refused a meeting with him in New York today to discuss the Anthony Joshua fight. [@SkySportsNews]

— Michael Benson (@MichaelBensonn) April 27, 2018

🤷*♂️ Eddie Hearn: "What we've done is called their bluff and they won't even meet to talk about the deal. I believe the boxing world has realised that this was a PR stunt turned PR disaster. We do want the fight and conversations will continue." [@SkySportsBoxing]

— Michael Benson (@MichaelBensonn) April 27, 2018

Relax, guys. Wilder emailed them personally. Completely cuts out the need for all these serious commercial discussions. He’ll be sending the contract by MSN Messenger within the hour. https://t.co/r2FimaqCnE

— Tom Craze (@TomCraze) April 27, 2018

[arraamis]

Hearn is pricing the fight with Wilder like he customarily does with fights in Britain ... Where the seats are priced at $40 a pop. In the states people are much more willing to pay top $dollar for a first class fight in Vegas.

Floyd could have sold out three stadiums per fight with seats priced at $40, $70. That doesn't necessarily make you the A-side, nor does it make you a PPV attraction\star.

And that's why Hearn doesn't see the fight between AJ and Wilder as a 100Million fight. In Britain maybe not but in the states, in Vegas, the high rollers come out to play and there's big money being waged. So yes, this fight can generate a huge payday for both, but the proper cards have to be played at the proper time.

[hitking]

I’m a Wilder fan. But I’m convinced these clowns are working with each other. AJ gonna fight Big Baby at Barclays. Wilder gonna fight Breazeale in AL.