Comments Thread For: Hearn: Wilder Has To Ask - 'Do I Really Believe I Can Beat Joshua?'

[fullers]

The WBA ordered the Povetkin fight dumb arse because WBA sick of waiting for bumsquad to sign the contract to the terms he had already agreed.

Okay if you believe hearns jackanory tales about that. This was always going to be Joshua next fight. They'd agreed to povetkin next straight after Parker. But if you believe hearn good luck to you, no worries

[lfc19titles]

When are you gullible British fanboys going to wake up and realize that Matchroom boxing, Eddie and Barry Hearn, and Anthony Joshua doesn't give a damn about you or other British fans such as yourself?

Their bottomline is the almighty dollar. Which is something they are willing to do in order to fool their fans for as long as they can in order to achieve that goal; Even if it means lying to the boxing public in order to protect their precious cash cow AJ.

First off, the $50 Mil offer was real and legit. They wanted proof that the funds were available and Eddie Hearn confirmed that they were. So why didn't they just accept the offer?

It's always stalling and one excuse after another excuse. First, Joshua says give me $50 Mil and I will sign to fight tomorrow". Team Wilder granted this request only to have Eddie Hearn reject it by saying that Joshua wants the first of perhaps two potential fights between Wilder and himself to be held in Great Britain.

So Matchroom boxing counter offered with a new contract with a Flat-fee of $15 Mil with no upside of the gate or PPV for a fight to be held in the U.K. and Wilder agreed to all of this by calling Hearn's bluff and was willing to fight Joshua on those terms.

However, when Team Wilder did that then more excuses and stalling tactics came out from Eddie Hearn. The first being was that the fight can't take place in the month of September because of the Canelo/Golovkin bout but look how they are scheduling the Povetkin fight for that same Month.

Secondly, he said that AJ couldn't fight in the month of September because he wanted him to have a full 12 week training camp. Which is another stalling tactic, excuse and lie because Joshua is fighting Povetkin on your typical eight week training camp schedule.

Lastly, the final excuse/lie and stalling tactic was the contract. It was filled with several loopholes and blanks with the venue and date conveniently left off as they were expecting Deontay Wilder to essentially sign a postdated contract.

After further review, Shelly Finkel wisely requested a revised contract with language explaining both the venue and the date. He asked to have it delivered to him by that weekend.

Eddie Hearn agreed to acquiesce but the following day out of nowhere the WBA conveniently ordered Team Joshua to finalize a deal with Povetkin within 24 hours; which had to have been orchestrated by none other than Matchroom boxing itself.

However, the fight wasn't finalized until three weeks later in yet another stalling tactic and delay from Barry and Eddie Hearn.

So from everything I just explained; It's very clear that Matchroom boxing had no real plans or intentions of fighting Wilder this year. They were stringing us all along this whole time in order to save face by telling us boxing fans what we wanted to hear and by prolonging Joshua's reign as unified champion of the world by avoiding "The Bronze Bomber".

Fake news

What a lying pos you are

Wilder stalled and stalled, they didn’t respond for 4 weeks

THey didn’t agree to meet to make the fight lol even in USA

They didn’t respond to the contract until Hearn chased them after 7 days

Quit your lying

Team wilder stalled the sht out of it, then went to espn to blab about returning the contract with notes which the wba saw and called the povetkin fight or aj be stripped

Wouldn’t surprise me if you’re on wilders pay roll like a *****, aj signed the contract, wilder refused

What’s what didn’t cause the fight to happen

Wilder is a keyboard warrior like yourself

You are fake news, rubbish

[SUBZER0ED]

If Wilder doesn't have to give up control of his career or enter into conflict with his contract with Showtime, he should take the $15 million. If he's the badass he's been purporting himself to be, he'll go to England, beat Joshua's ass & become top dog in the division, commanding top $$$. Otherwise, he can keep fighting bums for $1-2 million a pop and merely continue to claim to be the top dog.

[Oshio]

Wilder should sign the damn thing and stop whipping up excuses. If he's really confident of beating Joshua why the hesitation? He must surely have doubts on his abilities

[club fighter]

He doesn't have to ask, he knows it.

[champion4ever]

Wilder stalled and stalled, they didn’t respond for 4 weeks

Hell what did you expect him to do? Joshua said "Send me $50 Mil and I will sign tomorrow". Well Deontay Wilder did just that. He called his bluff and sent him the $50 Mil he requested but he turned it down. One has to be a damn fool in order to turn that kind of money down. Shit, I would be in shock too. It probably would have taken me more than 8 weeks to respond also in order to digest that kind of rejection.

[WhatDisButtonDo]

If Joshua fans think Wilder is a bum, and has no technique and is an idiot. Why should he even get credit if he beats him?

[pillowfists98]

Wilder just wants retirement money. He ain't confident about beating AJ at all.

[cameltoe]

I wouldn't call it a campaign. Especially since all they have done is responded to Hearn statements since the WBA "stepped in", with the exception of the initial response to the WBA "stepping in".

Really. You don’t think all the endless social media posts and bull***** interviews they’ve been trying to lay the blame firmly at Hearn and AJ’s feet, in order to portray them not wanting the fight?

[cameltoe]

Okay if you believe hearns jackanory tales about that. This was always going to be Joshua next fight. They'd agreed to povetkin next straight after Parker. But if you believe hearn good luck to you, no worries

No, we believe the WBA you absolute plank.

If they’d already agreed and signed it, then the WBA wouldn’t have come out and ordered them to sign it. And then make a public statement saying as much.

But don’t let facts ruin a good conspiracy.

Source: Sky Sports

Gilberto Mendoza said: "Today the WBA requested an answer from Anthony Joshua's team regarding his fight with the mandatory challenger Alexander Povetkin.”

"The WBA have allowed over a month extension to negotiations with Povetkin and also ongoing discussions with Deontay Wilder.

"It appears the Wilder team have not returned the contract for the fight and therefore we are requesting a date for the Joshua versus Povetkin fight with immediate effect."

But according to you it was signed all along. Right...I think your confusing it with Wilder vs Breazeale, for which quite a few sources have come out and said that was already a done deal.