Comments Thread For: Hearn: Joshua is Fighting in The UK, The Ball in Wilder's Court

[Redgloveman]

Real football😂😂😂..... you have grown arse muscular men in Lycra leggings , shoulder pads so they look similar to the legion of doom( wrestlers) coupled with a matching BMX helmet with no bicycle in sight. Rugby at least is more masculine even though I hate both sports. The audacity a sport that the entire world recognises as football, the Americans couldn’t thing of another name to name the sport so guess what we will call it football and so we don’t confuse our public we will name football soccer just to be ******. 😜😜

In fairness to our American brethren, Rugby is actually called Rugby football - because it's a variation of the rules of "association football" (soccer) which started in the town of Rugby in Warwickshire. People called it Rugby football because it was what people played at Rugby school instead of soccer.

American football is called American football for the exact same reason. It's the field game that people would play instead of soccer in America. But you can't exactly shorten the name down to "American" because it sounds ****ing dumb. "Anyone up for a game of American?"

So in both cases the name refers to where the variation of the rules of football originated, it's just that rugby dropped the "football" from it's name whereas American football kept it.

The argument that:

"American's are so dumb they call it football when you barely use your feet"

can also be answered by this.

But you make a good point in that rugby compares favourably to American football in terms of sheer violence! The injury rate is insane.

... This is a boxing forum, right? What the hell am I writing about this for?

[Redgloveman]

Your right! The name of the boxing game today seems to be to maximize revenue while minimizing risks. That doesn't sit to well with the die hard boxing fan side of me but the business man in me understands.

Unfortunately it's the case that wherever there are large amounts of money to be made by something, that activity will be converted to a business very ****ing quickly. That's the nature of capitalism.

Power to the people, comrades!

[fullers]

How do you know this? I've not seen any details on Hearns latest offer bar the suggested dates? I've also not seen how much Wilder's offer was going to pay Wilder so I'm no sure where you're getting your figures?

I'm getting it from what hearn has said in the news. That his offer was for less money but quote "its not all about the money"

[Noelanthony]

In fairness to our American brethren, Rugby is actually called Rugby football - because it's a variation of the rules of "association football" (soccer) which started in the town of Rugby in Warwickshire. People called it Rugby football because it was what people played at Rugby school instead of soccer.

American football is called American football for the exact same reason. It's the field game that people would play instead of soccer in America. But you can't exactly shorten the name down to "American" because it sounds ****ing dumb. "Anyone up for a game of American?"

So in both cases the name refers to where the variation of the rules of football originated, it's just that rugby dropped the "football" from it's name whereas American football kept it.

The argument that:

"American's are so dumb they call it football when you barely use your feet"

can also be answered by this.

But you make a good point in that rugby compares favourably to American football in terms of sheer violence! The injury rate is insane.

... This is a boxing forum, right? What the hell am I writing about this for?

No not at all, no knowledge is lost. Great explanation

[fullers]

You must of been living under a rock for the past month because AJ and Hearn have made an improved offer to Wilder. Why would they do that if they didn't want the fight? Let's hope Deontay allows AJ to cash out his belts and doesn't price himself out.

Improved offer but still not the amount that was offered to aj by wilders team. Let's be honest even hearn had to admit that the offer from wilders team which he initially called fantasy he later admitted to be true.

[PunchyPotorff]

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Wilder fans sure do guard their lord-and-savior at all costs don't they? Geez, the biggest atmosphere for this is in England. Wilder has one belt. Joshua has four belts. And BTW, those saying the U.S. will be more strict on the testing are just acting dumb. Many fighters have been caught cheating... worldwide. Sounds more and more like Wilder fans are the ones who don't want to risk their guy vs Joshua. All they need to really be concerned about is the rematch clause in the contract. Then fight #2 would be in the U.S. But the man Joshua says England for fight #1. So either it will be England, or Wilder can drop to CW and make even less cashish.



You haveta admit, it will be a much bigger event in England than here in the States. And Joshua will likely get what he wants on this. As to who wins? Whoever lands the first bomb. And Joshua is a more complete fighter than Wilder. So we'll just haveta see what we will see. Here's to a great fight.

i agree with all of the above (mostly the b/u). i just want to remind those who throw blame ar dw. lots of posturing happens in big fights. ''im the a side''. ''no, IM the a side''
zzzzzzzzzzz...............
but dw did come through and i want to remind dw bashers of this fact. im going with dw for 2 reasons; hes a wild man (understatement) and he has faster hands. so he who lands the 1st bomb will most likely be dw, imho.

You could be right. I'm going with Joshua though. He just seems more complete than Wilder, and IMO is very close in power.

[Elroy The Great]

You could be right. I'm going with Joshua though. He just seems more complete than Wilder, and IMO is very close in power.

the power seems equal.
aj is more ''polished'' but sometimes being unorthodox can be an advantage.

i still feel dw lands his bomb first.

im hoping to see it happen this year.

[AJISKING]

So wilder is fighting for 1m in his next fight vs a Joshua left over after he ducked Joshua

Joshua will be fighting for 20m vs povetkin

Lol only one person who screwed up by refusing to fight and it ain’t Joshua