IMO Joshua should stall the Wilder fight till 2020

[buddyr]

Mayweather did the same with Pacquiao and Canelo did the same with GGG. That's just the way boxing is.

Boxing = Business

The Pac fight could have happneed a lot sooner if he had gotten over his fear of needles. Do we agree? or do you think that using PEDs is ok? Be careful how you answer because you are a GGG fan..

[SN!PER]

No matter if it happen now or in two years Imma whoop that ass.

Better to get this done in 2018. Winner fight Fury in 2020.

[boliodogs]

Sure AJ could do that. He is holding all the aces. He could never fight Wilder and continue to make huge money every fight. Boxing history will be that he avoided Wilder. Does he want to be remember as the champ who would not fight his best challenger?

[Ray*]

I totally agree with you, have been saying it for a while now. Not that i don't want to see the fight but i think they should stall it until next year ending. It can only work better for AJ if that happens, i think he is rushing into this fight, currently Wilder is a step up from everyone else that he has fought. If i was his handlers i would do what Team Wilder did with him, it worked out well for Wilder because now he is more comfortable and more rounded as a fighter. I genuinely think he needs another 2/3 fights before Wilder, the other side of it is he might lose before then. He has already shown he fights better opposition at an early stage so no one would give him much grief for it.

[yoz]

1. Wilder will age & start showing more flaws.

2. The fight will be marinated enough to be a USA PPV event.

3. Joshua still has plenty of options to make money while Wilder is useless.

4. Joshua could fight these four guys next. It will allow the Wilder fight to marinade enough by then.

Fall of 2018 - Povetkin

Spring of 2019 - Pulev/Whyte winner

Fall of 2019 - Big Baby Miller

Spring of 2020 - Joe Joyce

* "Fall of 2020 - Wilder" *

Your proposed schedule makes no sense. It goes dangerous -> useless.

Surely he would increase the quality of opposition with each fight?

In any event, Wilder would have to face his mandatory/have a similar run of tune-ups in this window and would almost certainly lose.

Better for both, given their frailties, to get the fight on this year.

[Laligalaliga]

OP represents the new generation of boxing fan's
Rather than preferring to watch the best fight the best, he cares more about his favorite fighters health and how much money he'll make.

'Wilder will age & start showing more flaws'

lol I get fighters showing cowardice but his fans too, come on now.

How come in welders 40 fights, he never fought a champion?

[Vinnykin]

I'd be happy with AJ fighting Povetkin first, but then it has to be Wilder...... none of those other names mean anything, and I'm not sure I can take much more of the fanboy's of both fighters on here for another year or 2.

[bballchump11]

I don't trust Wilder and Joshua to stay undefeated for that long. Don't let this fight to marinate too long.

[uppercut510]

Lmao this is it, well at least you are being honest

[uppercut510]

the pac fight could have happneed a lot sooner if he had gotten over his fear of needles. Do we agree? or do you think that using peds is ok? Be careful how you answer because you are a ggg fan..

they will never admitt that... even tho roach and arum admitted it was their fault, the fans still act as if that never happened