Comments Thread For: Hearn: Deontay Wilder Should Get "Less" Money For April Date

[BLACK KNOT]

It's not just about how the record looks, but how the fighters looked in their recent fights. And Povetkin looked like a corpse who almost got knocked out by another corpse in that Price fight.

povetkin scored a highlight reel ko of price and is on a winning streak plus beyonce wilder was scared of povetkin and ran from russia with her tail between her legs!!! FACTS!!!

[JWHardin]

Its all probably just bad timing for AJ's cycling to fight Wilder so soon where random VADA is required. Wilder should tell them he'll sign now if the testing starts now.

They make Povetkin submit to VADA but not AJ? AJ has his own team and countrymen to test him I guess. Why can't the Russians test Povetkin?

[aboutfkntime]

Eddie Hearn, who promotes WBO, WBA, IBO, IBF heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua, is taking a big risk in stating that WBC champion Deontay Wilder should get less money for a proposed unification date of April 13 at Wembley in London. The two sides were negotiating a potential fight for the fall - but their discussions fell apart when the World Boxing Association ordered Joshua to reach an agreement with mandatory challenger Alexander Povetkin.
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this could be true

not 100% sure

Joshua/Hearn clearly ducked that fight..... clearly

but I stated earlier that I suspect they are only deferring that fight in the short-term, and will face Wilder after Povetkin

there are a number of reasons why fighting Povetkin first is a much better plan for Joshua

I suspect that Wilder could be next..... either that, or they will pull the same stunt once again to enable Joshua to fight Fury in April..... which would be HUGE

the only issue, was Hearn refusing to commit Joshua NEXT, after Povetkin..... so if he sends Wilder a contract specifying the SAME terms + a date..... we are full steam ahead.....

..... otherwise, Hearn will pull the same stunt again, and we will have to wait until after Joshua/Fury to see Wilder in some real action..... and that shht is straight from the Bob Arum playbook, how long have you guys been following this shht

lets see if Hearn is true to his word..... this time !

it all depends on whether they are targeting Fury..... because, who in their right mind would fight Wilder before Fury..... right?

[P4Pdunny]

Lool hearn at it again

[Scipio2009]

They should hang him out to dry for being such a big baby. Hes got nowhere else to make money. Offers down from 15 mill, to 10, possibly 11 if we are feeling generous..... maybe!!!!!!!

... You don't see it.

Anthony Joshua is fighting in September, on an app that maybe gets 10k people to tune in in the US, against an opponent that the Box Office audience already saw get dropped by David Price, lol.

Maybe Eddie Hearn backfills the kiddie with money from DAZN, but he's literally looking at a lesser event in total than what was picked up on the Parker fight.

Do you honestly think that the US boxing press is earnestly going to sit there and help him halk his DAZN app and Anthony Joshua, when everyone knows that walking away from an offer like that ($50m against 50% of the revenue) only says one thing?

Deontay Wilder is on the cusp of maxing out on regular Showtime; if Dominic Breazeale is the next fight, do not be shocked to see CBS find a Saturday in their schedule when they can air the fight. Joshua fight or no Joshua fight, The Deontay Wilder Show is basically set for PPV in at most 2 fights.

Maybe $25m for the Povetkin fight in the UK (with the US largely not caring), maybe another $20m for the Pulev fight (with the US not caring), and hope against hope that Tyson Fury looks competitive enough so they can split $40 for a UK grudge match (that the US doesn't care about), before simply fighting in Europe like the Klitschko's did.

[Jimmy gold]

But wilder said he would do it for free. And it’s about legacy yeah right lol when pigs fly

[Derranged]

Cut the crap and make the fight happen. Tired of this jackass Hearn.

[Scipio2009]

They should hang him out to dry for being such a big baby. Hes got nowhere else to make money. Offers down from 15 mill, to 10, possibly 11 if we are feeling generous..... maybe!!!!!!!

Wilder can simply keep doing what he's doing, get a guaranteed $3m for the Breazeale fight, another $3m+ to defend his title on CBS again, and a likely $5m+ downside on his debut PPV, with that figure skyrocketing once the casual PPV audience gets around to him.

[filup79]

AJ raise his profile after Povetkin? Nobody here in the states knows who he is or cares to watch him fight. His numbers here in the states back that up. Even his PPVs in the UK have gone down since the Wlad fight. He isn't doing no million PPVs out there.

[filup79]

... You don't see it.

Anthony Joshua is fighting in September, on an app that maybe gets 10k people to tune in in the US, against an opponent that the Box Office audience already saw get dropped by David Price, lol.

Maybe Eddie Hearn backfills the kiddie with money from DAZN, but he's literally looking at a lesser event in total than what was picked up on the Parker fight.

Do you honestly think that the US boxing press is earnestly going to sit there and help him halk his DAZN app and Anthony Joshua, when everyone knows that walking away from an offer like that ($50m against 50% of the revenue) only says one thing?

Deontay Wilder is on the cusp of maxing out on regular Showtime; if Dominic Breazeale is the next fight, do not be shocked to see CBS find a Saturday in their schedule when they can air the fight. Joshua fight or no Joshua fight, The Deontay Wilder Show is basically set for PPV in at most 2 fights.

Maybe $25m for the Povetkin fight in the UK (with the US largely not caring), maybe another $20m for the Pulev fight (with the US not caring), and hope against hope that Tyson Fury looks competitive enough so they can split $40 for a UK grudge match (that the US doesn't care about), before simply fighting in Europe like the Klitschko's did.

Pretty much sums it up. Nobody cared about the Klitschko's in the US. And nobody really cares to watch AJ fights when his ratings have been that of GB's ESPN2 fights.