Comments Thread For: Hearn: Joshua Wants Wilder - But He Wants The Fight in The UK

[Sid-Knee]

Minuscule buddy. For the past 3 months you and all the other British flock were screaming how the money was in the U.K. Now you hear it from Hearns own mouth where the money is and now you’re up here trying to change the narrative. Face it your biggest events = chump change. And it doesn’t have to be the biggest fight in the US to beat the U.K. in total revenue.

How many fights in American boxing history made more money than Anthony Joshua does in the UK?

[Nightfall]

Road block after road block

[Scipio2009]

The A-side chooses where this fight takes place and i am glad that joshua has said the fight takes place over here....wilder is the B-side and if there is a rematch clause and wilder wins the fisrt fight then he chooses where the rematch takes place.
Wilder earns peanuts without joshua at 2m a fight and joshua earns 15 million a fight so go dow the maths wilder fanboys.

Anthony Joshua doesn't earn more than $30m on any possible fight that you could think up for him; Wilder's camp offered Anthony Joshua a way to earn at least $50m.

If Anthony Joshua is content to simply keep fighting in the UK and being a European attraction, that's his right. He'll have a run like Klitschko's, where the American audience simply doesn't care anymore.

Deontay Wilder isn't making Anthony Joshua money, but he's building. He's getting close to selling out Barclays Center on his own, the interest on Showtime is getting to the point where CBS is brought in as a premium, and he's basically another 2 good performances away from PPV being needed to finance Wilder's fight (and having an American heavyweight champion into his 10th defense of his title may just be the hook to bring casual fans along, especially with it being clear that the other champion wants none of it).

Wilder's market is still the one that delivered Floyd and Oscar $75m to fight; keep slighting Wilder if you want.

[Gillie]

They’re not going to give him 50million to go to the UK.
The Americans are putting up the money to get it in Vegas.
The big money is in the USA.
If AJ insists on home cooking the money will be a lot less.
For the record I don’t care where the fight is

Me neither bro!! Just make it happen.

[eye guy]

That's what happens when 1 fighter is 10x the draw and holds 3 of the 4 belts. Wilder hasn't got a bird leg to stand on.

Actually, he does. They both want to unify and know their own worth. Pay the man, and he and the belt will fly over for a fight... it's that simple really.

[Scipio2009]

Joshua holds most of the belts, and is huge in the UK. Why would he come to the challenger's back yard? If Wilder wants AJ's belts, he needs to go to the UK and try to take them.

Because Wilder's yard doubles the money in Joshua's yard.

Hearn made his offer to Wilder, whether it was deliberately low-ball or not, because he said that the fight was only worth $45m or so to everyone.

Wilder's camp believe that the fight is worth well more than $50m to everyone, and they're guaranteeing the $50m to prove it.

Money is what moves everything; Charles Martin basically stumbled into the IBF belt. Not for one moment was the idea even thought to have Joshua come to the US, and fight Martin at StubHub (9,000-seat venue, Martin is based in California, etc); they made it clear that the money was in the UK, put forward an unheard of offer for the fight, and Martin made the trip with his title.

Why are things different now?

[Phenom]

How many fights in American boxing history made more money than Anthony Joshua does in the UK?

Seriously???

[Ake-Dawg]

How many fights in American boxing history made more money than Anthony Joshua does in the UK?

Google Floyd Mayweather and Mike Tyson. You should probably include Oscar De La Hoya as well.

[Sid-Knee]

Seriously???

The poster I was responding to said the biggest events in the UK = chump change, so I asked which events in US history made more than a Joshua fight.

Do you agree that the smaller events in the US make more than the biggest events in the UK like the poster said?

[Scipio2009]

To be fair it’s been like that for years

A side dictates these things .. the same way mayweather did for years and ward in recent times

It’s annoying because everyone wants to see the fight . Wilder is gonna have to head over here for his bread

A-sides rarely dictate things to end up putting less money into their pockets.

Floyd will mess with folks about what type of gloves can be replaced in a fight, but Floyd isn't going to mess up a fight because Tecate was willing to pay significantly more than Corona was for a fight.

Floyd loves Las Vegas with all his heart, but that didn't stop him from sitting down with Barclays Center to see if a deal could be made, and it wouldn't have stopped Floyd from fighting in NYC if Las Vegas couldn't at least match the offer.