Comments Thread For: Hearn: I Want To Know This Week If Wilder Wants The Fight

[Ake-Dawg]

He said he would send a revised offer. What that revised offer entails is anyone's guess. I guess we'll find out more if(When) it falls through this week

https://www.boxingscene.com/joshuas-...wilder--127694

The question is, did he actually send the offer?

[Holler]

Doesn't matter what the clauses were

It matters in regard to the claim that the offer was legit. If the clauses were such that Joshua couldn't accept them then the offer was as unacceptable as Hearn's flat fee which preceded it.

Just be honest about what happened. Wilder called AJ's bluff.

Agreed.

50 million was an outrageous demand, but the demand was met and then AJ refused to be a man of his word..

The entire point that Joshua was making was that Wilder's side were making claims about the value of the fight in the US which were not substantiated. They were the ones claiming the fight was worth 100m at which point 50m up front for the A side is emphatically not an outrageous claim. AJ's point was, if what you're saying is correct then why aren't you offering 50m? I think to an extent they were trying to flush Wilder's team out at that point to see what they really thought the fight was worth. It appears that they meant what they said.

As to whether you consider AJ to be bound to accept the fight at that point. That depends on whether you consider an email from Wilder, twitter videos, leaks to journalists, 24 hour deadlines, no clarification of other deal points, no meeting or discussion an acceptable form of doing business. From memory I think we differ on that point.

But even if you think 60/40 is an outrageous demand, the point is that Wilder will keep his word if that demand is met. He will go fight in the UK for 60/40. Even though AJ lied about fighting for 50 million

Again from memory I believe there was a caveat to Wilder's 60/40 which was that he wanted the split reversed in a US rematch. I doubt that's acceptable to Hearn given the massive disparity between what the two men bring to the table.

[EnglishOxide]

That's what I'm wondering as well. Of all that Hearn has said, he hasn't said that he sent a counter and they are negotiating off of that. That's quite curious given the amount of public negotiating that happened in the beginning.

It was team Wilder who made the first offer public.

I'm sure Wilder has a revised offer at this point on the table which stacks up to more than $12.5m. If he doesn't than it would be easy for Wilder to say so.

[_Rexy_]

Hearn is saying the discussions are amicable and Wilder understands the situation. That, and the fact that are even still talking now, indicates to me that there is no low balling going on.

It's crazy to see some people still talking about the $12million fixed fee offer. Wilder's side rejected that immediately, and if Hearn was sticking to it the negotiations would have broken down weeks ago.

you're one of the only UK fans on here that I don't dread reading their opinion on this matter.
When I saw people bringing up the 12 mil offer I had to check the date of the thread...

[peplz]

Hearn literally admitted that the offer from Wilder was “very strong.” So basically, AJ is turning down a $50M guarantee. And his fanb1tches still insist that Wilder is the one ducking the fight. All y’all should literally kill yourselves. It’ll make the world a better place.

Neither fighter is ducking the fight. They are negotiating. It's pretty unrealistic to believe that a fighter in Joshua's position would play the subordinate role for any amount of money no matter what he said to the media. I don't understand why Wilder and team would be willing to pay so much money just to have the fight take place in Vegas. I can understand that Wilder will probably never pack stadiums against lesser competition the way Joshua does and he wants to maximize his financial gain with this one event. But his stock would rise if he dominates and knocks out Joshua the way he says he would. Let's be real, Anthony Joshua doesn't need Wilder to make 50 million. He could probably make that against a couple of bums. Wilder won't be making 12.5 million fighting anyone. It's just reality.

[GlassJoey]

The negotiations are clearly serious. Hearn has stopped calling him Shirley Winkle. No reason he’d stop if the fight wasn’t happening.

[peplz]

Wait, why can't they fight in a neutral place? They are both African decent. . Let's help the economies in one of the Africa countries . Nigeria, Mali, Uganda, Congo, South Africa or etc. **** they can fight in Bermuda lol.

Anthony Joshua is Nigerian.

[Boksfan]

you AJ **** smokers have zero credibility. remember the $50 million doesn't exist its a PR stunt.

"give me $50 million I'll sign tomorrow"

"Tomorrow" was a long time ago.

Bytch you suck Deontay balls like your life depends on it, haha you nuthuggers can't get any more pathetic

[Robyn Banz]

Them Boys from Britain a bunch of hoes

[Patsfan bri]

Even if wilder does go to the U.K. for the fight I’m sure the 50 million offer to AJ is off the table which means they would have to start negotiating all over again.