Comments Thread For: Joshua's Coach Explains Why Wilder Fight Must Be in The UK

[Bronx2245]

Great post!

Joseph Parker got 35% of the purse.

For leaving all the American money on the table to go fight in the UK Wilder should get 40%. It's only fair, especially after Team Wilder met AJ's $50 million demand that he suddenly doesn't want anymore.

I must give credit, where credit is due! Dan Rafael broke it down:

April 16, 2018:

If Joshua (21-0, 20 KOs) wants the fight with Wilder (40-0, 39 KOs) next, it sure doesn't seem that way, regardless of what he says. It's clear in the offer Joshua's promoter, Matchroom Boxing's Eddie Hearn, recently made to the Wilder camp: a flat fee of $12.5 million, take it or leave it, for Wilder's participation in the fight...

For Team Joshua to take Wilder as a $12.5 million expense without cutting him in for a large percentage of an event that could generate in the high eight figures is a joke. When Joshua faced Joseph Parker to unify their three belts last month, the Parker camp got one-third of the money in the event. Wilder is worth more than that, obviously; he brings the last piece of the undisputed title to the table, he brings a bigger fan base and, on his own, he generates more money than Parker does.

If Parker is worth a third, Wilder is easily worth at least that much and probably even a few more points. His side has stated it knows it's not getting 50-50 and hasn't asked for it, but to be offered a flat fee is not a real offer. It's an offer meant for the Joshua team to be able to run around and say, "Hey, we made an offer, and Team Wilder turned it down." It's called playing games, and it's nothing new in boxing.

http://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/i...ean-fight-next

[Larry the boss]

Technically he did, Josh is selling out stadiums, no reason to head over to America right now for anyone.

But they wanna come over here for Big Baby??

[Cinci Champ]

the thing people are forgetting is wilder would also be making a lot less money if the fight was in the uk. tbh i dont know why joshua so desperate to have it in the uk anyway its not gonna got the distance regardless who wins

[Pennsauken1]

Shut up puppet!!!!!

[Ray*]

He's traveled before why wouldn't he again. He said he would fight in the UK in the interview I just posted from last week. He won't for that flat fee offer though. Hearn said he's made an improved offer but we all don't know what it is. Hearn has no problem staging a Jarrell Miller fight in the US but doesn't want AJ fighting Wilder there for by far his biggest payday!? I think both AJ and Wilder want the fight, I just don't think Hearn does right at this moment

It’s easier to travel against lower level competition, don’t you think AJ would travel for someone like Miller? I couldn’t care less if he was offered a flat fee or %, he had an offer that represents five times his biggest pay. So for me he too is doing a AJ, taking less to stay at home in this whole saga. I think they want to be in control just like Hearn wants. I just don’t think his team wants him to travel no matter what Wilder says, his actions tells us that.

[sportbuddha]

Unification trumps mandatories.. so slow you roll cowboy.. he doesn’t have to face Povetkin, he can face wilder!!! secondly AJ was given those belts.. charity.. fury was the champion.. beating charles martin for the IBF was shyte... beating klitschko coming off a 2 year layoff loss for the wba, and Ibo was shyte.. beating Joseph parker for the wbo was shyte.. hell.. dat fool didn't earn that gold medal in the Olympics! He only got it bc it was in England.. just like all his fights! The wbc strap is the only belt he won't get freely.. an he's afraid to leave England cause he won't be protected nor will he have access to his drugs! Lol.

Unification trumps mandatory if AJ chooses it too, that’s why all the Wilder fans going nuts, all they got is name calling. AJ is running the game.

When people start saying some has been gifted a career or been lucky, that just sounds like plain jealousy. Real is real, those belts real and that money real, everything else just BS.

How is it even possible that in 40 fights the only names on Wilders CV are Stiverne and Ortiz? Don’t waste your time building those two donkey’s up, Ortiz was hyped based on nothing and is literally a grandpa (and he still made it hard for Wilder) and Stiverne is up there with Martin in terms of worst HW champions of all time.

Facts are Wilder been in the game twice as long, had twice as many fights as AJ but has just a quarter of his success in terms of belts and tenth of his success in financially, and that doesn’t even account for brand value. Someone ducked the big fights, not sure it was AJ.

Wilder will eventually travel to the UK and it reminds me a lot of a night I saw live. A fearsome puncher who was coming to finally give a protected boxer his lesson and take the belt home, Left Hook Lacey was never the same again, Calzaghe made him look silly and punished him, it’s going to happen again, so I wouldn’t be in such a hurry to make it happen if I was a Wilder fan.

[5000boxing]

Unification trumps mandatory if AJ chooses it too, that’s why all the Wilder fans going nuts, all they got is name calling. AJ is running the game.

When people start saying some has been gifted a career or been lucky, that just sounds like plain jealousy. Real is real, those belts real and that money real, everything else just BS.

How is it even possible that in 40 fights the only names on Wilders CV are Stiverne and Ortiz? Don’t waste your time building those two donkey’s up, Ortiz was hyped based on nothing and is literally a grandpa (and he still made it hard for Wilder) and Stiverne is up there with Martin in terms of worst HW champions of all time.

Facts are Wilder been in the game twice as long, had twice as many fights as AJ but has just a quarter of his success in terms of belts and tenth of his success in financially, and that doesn’t even account for brand value. Someone ducked the big fights, not sure it was AJ.

Wilder will eventually travel to the UK and it reminds me a lot of a night I saw live. A fearsome puncher who was coming to finally give a protected boxer his lesson and take the belt home, Left Hook Lacey was never the same again, Calzaghe made him look silly and punished him, it’s going to happen again, so I wouldn’t be in such a hurry to make it happen if I was a Wilder fan.

Ortiz is a grandpa? Klitschko is older!!!

[DadeCounty305]

Wilder needs to understand he isn't and never will be A side. But telling these uneducated ****** folk they aren't getting their way is like telling a child he can't have candy in a candy store. Wilder is a farce. Haymon needs the fight in USA to fix the judges and referee so wilder has s punchers chance. Guy is a fraud, his Fanbase is deluded and uneducated worse than floyds fans, and he hasn't beaten a guy with s pulse yet. Fcuk wilder and PBC, it's a dying enterprise and boxing will be better off.

You're one ignorant POS. Just say what you really want to say. I see right through your comment... You're a RACIST.

[P4Pdunny]

“But he duckin doe”

[Muz]

Hearn having nightmares about my right hand.

After I topple AJ, the whole Eddie Empire start to crumble.

You are a WWE character and even you know that. How can you continue being a coward everyday of your life knowing you are protected and holding a belt hostage. You are nothing more than a manufactured great black USA hope and your resume proves it.

Your manager Finkel is on record saying in 2015 they had no intention of you fighting Wlad Klitschko because you weren't ready for him or any other top HW. They admitted protecting your fraud coward ass. So you fought a bunch of hired haymon stiffs and got exposed vs club fighters. Harold Sconiers dropped you hard for a 9 count and got saved by a corrupted Ref vs old man Ortiz.

You are an embarrassment to boxing, never facing a top ten HW in his prime, just old men and hand picked cannon fodder. Entitlement has defeated you.