Comments Thread For: Joshua, Hearn Stand Firm: Wilder Fight Must Be in The UK

[SUBZER0ED]

You cant have your cake and eat it to. You wanted 50 million you got 50 million. It's absolutely customary and protocol for the person who puts up the money to choose the venue. When that Russian billionaire put up the money for the W. Klitschko vs Povetkin fight he said the fight had to be in Russia, and Klitschko was fine with it because he was guaranteed 20 million.

AJ and Hearn are being pigs.

Agreed, he can't have it both ways, that's why he turned it down. You've seen the interviews; Joshua has always maintained that he wants to fight Wilder in the UK. I challenge you to quote him saying he'd fight Deontay in the states.

[BDG]

Did anyone else catch this?

Joshua and his handlers recently sent over a guaranteed offer of $50 million to persuade Joshua to take the fight in the United States

[Redgloveman]

It’s BS. And it’s all Hearn IMO. I don’t recall AJ ever saying no to the US when Hearn was gleefully telling every reporter that Joshua was coming to America for Jarrell Miller.

No offence, but I don't think that's particularly relevant.

I don't think AJ has a problem with going to the US per se, but this is a once in a generation super-fight and he wants

(a) to maximise his chances of winning by fighting at home - which I can respect, home advantage is a big deal

(b) to allow as many fans as possible to see the fight
- I think he's quite proud of the impact he's had on UK boxing and doesn't want to stay loyal to the UK fans.

I actually think Hearn would prefer the fight to be in America because that means more money for him. Hearn was generally the one saying AJ would be willing to fight in America; AJ has generally said that he'd prefer the (first) Wilder fight to be in the UK

[Redgloveman]

(b) to allow as many fans as possible to see the fight
- I think he's quite proud of the impact he's had on UK boxing and doesn't want to stay loyal to the UK fans.

sorry for the typo, you get what I mean

[uppercut510]

I don't see why this is such a big deal for Wilder.

After all, save one belt, he brings nothing to the table. Sure, he may be the real deal and a future HW force, but his resume, as it is, is trash and his last performance was hardly inspiring.

Perhaps he's afraid of being overawed?

Its not a big deal, thing is hearn should have offered him a percentage, that way there was no question about it being in the uk. but for some odd reason hearn said wilder wasn't worth a percentage, 60/40 was fair but they could have even offered 70/30 and then negotiated, when aj asked for that 50mil and got it as an offer that took the leverage away from hearn and aj, we understand aj is the A side but unless hearn gives a better offer why wouldn't the side giving the most money want to dictate the location? can you at least be fair and admit this? hearn got his questions answered and I have not heard of a counter offer to the 50mil.

[Smash]

The only thing I'll say about this is that it is not fair to Wilder. He's a champion too. He should not need to travel somewhere else

oh shock an american has to TRAVEL for a fight and to another country too, this is just not on, what about my judges, my food and my bed wwwwaaaaa my belt wwwwaaaa

[Larry the boss]

But can you really buy leverage in negotiations? Obviously Wilder really doesn't want to fight in the UK if he is trying to pay his way into a position to call the shots. He is kind of showing a little bit of a weakness and I can understand how team Joshua would want to exploit that. And personally, I've never heard of the B side fighter paying the A side fighter to relinquish their A side privileges before.

Joshua literally said give me 50 million and he would sign the next day..How can you flip that on Wilder?

[Straightener]

Just make this a 2 fight deal like AJ vs Wlad was supposed to be; first fight in the UK and 2nd fight in the USA.

That would be the best possible outcome

Going off this interview it sounds like they will be paying wilder more money to come to the uk

Hopefully it gets straightened out soon which I think it will

[Smash]

hearn is slimey but cant be that ****** to give wilder control of the fight, fight in the states and possibly come out with a lower percentage lolz, that would be some con job, nah wilder can go back to his 1 mil paydays, simple says hearn

[Straightener]

Joshua literally said give me 50 million and he would sign the next day..How can you flip that on Wilder?

I get the impression Hearn just wants to have his name on top of the promotion

Ego booster

I have no doubt Joshua would fight anywhere it’s begining to sound like Hearn wants to be on the driving seat .

It’s fair enough to be fair Hearn and Joshua has built up a massive fan base and big bank too . He doesn’t want Finkel taking his thunder (even for 50million ) both teams have big egos . Hopefully it gets signed soon