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

[ukbox]

If we believe AJs script its a simple buisness & Matchroom provide good opponent's (i.e he's in no rush to face wilder)

If thats true, what's happening with kham & brook or why isn't it happening?🤔

[boxing90]

AJ has a country behind him... wilder needs to make himself publicly known a little bit more maybe do espn to build up his fan base a tad bit, hes known but only known by boxing fans... and I hate to say it but numbers don't lie. He's gonna have to take whatever... like FM did when fighting Oscar, beat AJ and become the A side point blank. Tyson was known across the world and other countries win lose or draw tyson was the A side for a minute in the heavy weight division.

[Azzie]

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

[Devils Advocate]

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.

Wilder will regret waking away from this opportunity when he’s paid $1.5 million for his next fight.

[Ray*]

Wilder will regret waking away from this opportunity when he’s paid $1.5 million for his next fight.

Well his fans are using Pacquaio as an example why he shouldn't take a flat fee. Pacman was a PPV magnet in his own right. So he deserve a percent of the whole pot.

Wilder isn't, so the flat fee of 12.5 or 15m fit him perfectly. Even as a flat fee (15M) i think Team Joshua are overpaying him.

[filup79]

You can laugh all you want but it is true. The simple fact is, boxing is much more popular in the U.K. Than it is in the U.S. Because it's a much smaller country. Therefore, Wilder can walk down any street of England and would become almost immediately and instantly recognizable but on the other hand, Joshua could walk down any street of America and wouldn't be so much as even remotely noticed or recognizable.

They'd just think he's some basketball player. Funny thing is Hearn should of also asked the people on the streets of New York if they knew who AJ was.

[Ray*]

They'd just think he's some basketball player. Funny thing is Hearn should of also asked the people on the streets of New York if they knew who AJ was.

If most of these guys walk the street they would gather attention, they are tall, big and their presence would be known. I saw David Haye on the street of oxford circus with a tall blond lady and you could tell he was somebody, this was before he was famous, he was probably in the amateur at that time. So casual people would probably guess that they are into sports.

[filup79]

AJ has a country behind him... wilder needs to make himself publicly known a little bit more maybe do espn to build up his fan base a tad bit, hes known but only known by boxing fans... and I hate to say it but numbers don't lie. He's gonna have to take whatever... like FM did when fighting Oscar, beat AJ and become the A side point blank. Tyson was known across the world and other countries win lose or draw tyson was the A side for a minute in the heavy weight division.

i understand AJ has a country behind him but its pretty much like saying AJ has California behind him since they're pretty much around the same size in population. Floyd didn't take no flat fee and ended up with 25 million. AJ is the A side, but lets be realistic, AJ isn't doing no big numbers outside of the UK. His fights are on UK PPV but that's not saying much, Hearn puts on every ****ty fight on PPV over there. Fights that the US public would never pay for here. If Wilder is getting a flat fee then he should take all the US revenue that the fight brings in and AJ can keep the rest. But we know Hearn wouldn't agree to that cause he knows the big money is in the US.

[Falkano]

They'd just think he's some basketball player. Funny thing is Hearn should of also asked the people on the streets of New York if they knew who AJ was.

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.

[BLACK KNOT]

Then why is this website so obsessed with him? Why is Hearn asked about him constantly? Why is he the biggest draw at Barclays? Why is he the biggest draw on Showtime? Why does he sell so many more tickets than Matchroom USA?

lol wilder is a ***ing nobody!