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

[5000boxing]

If it is fear of Wilder knocking him into next week or fear of ped tests, no one knows for sure. The only thing for sure is AJ does not want to fight Wilder for the WBC title.

First AJ offers a flat fee of $12.5 million, no matter how much money the fight makes. Then Wilder said the fight would generate $100 million. So AJ said, guarantee me $50 million and I will accept the same day. So Wilder offered AJ a guarantee of $50 million and if the fight does over $100 million, it is a 50-50 split.

Then Hearn says he doesn't believe Haymon, Showtime, and Finkel would pay him. Then it wasn't serious. Then Hearn could not help but call people names, so there was no use in negotiating. Now, the money does not matter. Either accept the fight in England and both fighters get a fraction of what they would if they fought in the U.S. Wilder can either accept a pay cut of tens of millions of dollars and fight in England or no fight at all.

Even if Wilder agreed to fight for free, anywhere AJ wants, and at anytime AJ wants, Hearn would come up with some other excuse.

This is beyond just plain pathetic now. It is the clearest case of ducking the boxing world has ever seen. AJ let down an entire country. The holder of three heavyweight belts is from England and refusing to fight the only opponent who could beat him. Makes the whole country look bad. It really does. AJ had a chance to bring back boxing, to bring interest back to the heavyweights. He has instead chosen to refuse to fight the only challenge and also has changed his style to the same as the robotic Klitschko's. Not the fights fans want, and not even fun fights to watch.

Everybody's catching on to the bullshyte! Some are still trying to save face!!! Lol. Get ya popcorn and watch AJ's butthurt fans dance with excuse!!

[brettWall]

Can't even believe Wilder has taken this long to say yes to the fight being the B side and his claims of wanting the fight badly.

[Phenom]

I want to know what is this revised offer weird Hearn is doing all the talking and nothing coming from the other camp

Shelly is too old for this **** but still should play this game and make it public

[Larry the boss]

lol....................

[jonnyc420]

Poor delusional Wilder fans. The A-side, man with more fans, more belts and the better competition has spoken. Wilder needs AJ much more than AJ needs him. Bunch of clowns. Bum Squad for life I see lol.

[IMDAZED]

Poor delusional Wilder fans. The A-side, man with more fans, more belts and the better competition has spoken. Wilder needs AJ much more than AJ needs him. Bunch of clowns. Bum Squad for life I see lol.

Sometimes I wonder who is really a boxing fan here.

[rickJen]

Can't even believe Wilder has taken this long to say yes to the fight being the B side and his claims of wanting the fight badly.

Yeah, makes you wonder who he beat to deserve this attention.
CNN couldn't even recognize him when he paid a visit to the white house.

[Redgloveman]

Why is there an assumption that the deal is a bad one? Say what you want about Hearn, but the last time Hearn made a weak deal Wilder's team - rightly imo - went straight to the press. They've had this deal long enough now that you can be damn sure we'd have heard about it if it was a lowball offer - so surely it's safe to assume that it's not a particularly bad deal.

If Wilder accepts the deal AJ is contractually obliged to fight.

Once again, people seem to be way more excited by the prospect of one fighter ducking the other than they actually are in seeing the two in the ring.

People need to chill the **** out, seriously.

[ThunderFists]

Good. Wilder the tomato can crusher needs to realise AJ the unified champ and the cash cow. You need to go to the champs backyard if you wanna get paid and want those belts. Wilder fans r delusional lmao 40 fights and 2 top 5 ranked fighters one of whom which was around since the dinosaurs.

[Corelone]

I can hear AJ'S next intro now. And in this corner, Anthony, not even for 50 million, Joshua.