Comments Thread For: Hearn: No One Knows Who Wilder is - 50-50 Will Never Happen!

[BLACK KNOT]

We know who Wilder is, the guy who's asking for more and more money every day.

we know who wilder is he's the duck who's scared to death of joshua!

[BLACK KNOT]

If Parker got a percentage then why can't wilder? At this point f this fight. Boxing is the worst I swear. Just do right by people and stop the bs. They don't even care, no other sport besides this one.

because beyonce wilder gets what hearn thinks he should get beyonce is the b side and a pretty weak one hearn should offer him crumbs. 50-50 will never happen!

[rckdees]

Nobody knows who Wilder is but Hearn can’t stop dropping his name to sell Joshua’s fights FOH

[filup79]

If nobody knows him may I ask why 700k people in the US watched his last fight? I'm from New York and everyone I know has some idea of who he is.
He is in the papers and on the news a lot. Only a couple of days ago he was in the NYT
https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/201...ua-wilder.html

To say or suggest nobody knows him in NY is to suggest people in NY have zero clue about fighting or combat sports. That we haven't a clue who the HW champion of the world is. Which suggests you don't know NY very well.

Doesn't say much, Wilder gets almost twice as many views. Has been on VH1 reality show. Drove the pace car for a Nascar event. Just because Hearn claims that no one on the street know Wilder is ridiculous, all I'm saying he should have asked the same person the same question. AJ is a superstar in the UK but thats the size of California. Both are know to the public but they aint no global super stars like Floyd and Manny.

[that g]

Hearn seems to do more harm than good. I totally agree Joshua is the A side and deserves the bigger percentage. But a fight of this magnitude, Wilder shouldn't be getting no 15 million flat fee. 60/40 or 65/35 purse in favor of Joshua plus split in PPV sales is reasonable.

so why exactly should wilder get 60/40 or 65/35? based on what exactly? why is it reasonable?

[sicko]

Nobody knows WTF DAZN is either Eddie so you guys have a lot more in Common than you think

"Nobody Knows Who Wilder Is!" but yet he would love to sign him to Matchroom USA and would LOVE to have him on DAZN

[SUBZER0ED]

Please listen to me very carefully. I never once said that Wilder was popular in the U.S. As a matter of fact he is not popular in the U.S. and neither is Anthony Joshua.

My only point was that Wilder was more famous in the U.K. Than Joshua is in the U.S. Which is an undeniable and irrefutable truth. More people know Wilder in Great Britain than more people know Anthony Joshua in America.

Let's just take last Tuesday for instance in New York, you had Boxing's unified heavyweight champion of the world at a press conference and hardly anybody showed up or even noticed him outside of YouTubers and hardcore boxing fans. Had that been Evander Holyfield, Mike Tyson, Muhammad Ali or even Rid**** Bowe in their primes, it would have been a goddamn mob scene there.

Lastly, more casual fans have heard of or know Deontay Wilder in the U.K. Than more casual fans have heard of or know Anthony Joshua in the U.S.

Well of course it would have been a mob scene, they were all great American HW champions.

You say that hardly anyone showed for Joshua's presser in the US. Well, it's because his opponent is not American and neither is he. If Wilder held a presser in the UK for a fight against Breazeale, do you think that would be a mob scene?

[SUBZER0ED]

People are arguing that Wilder deserves more money. The funny thing is, he initially accepted the $15 million offer! Now that negotiations have stalled, he's demanding a 50-50 split, why? What has he done to justify the change in the amount he will accept? Is this some kind of penalty thing for him, because they failed to make the fight happen next? It doesn't work that way.

[Raggamuffin]

Then it don't happen, who gives a s**h*t? Joshua will be remembered like a Rid**** Bowe ducking Lennox Lewis.

Well said. Joshua is a ***** made *****.

Wilder is the only guy in the division that they can’t control.

[Raggamuffin]

Anthony “Rid**** Bowe” ****hua!!!