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Yet you expected Joshua to sign on a $50 million contract without any terms, any details, with Wilder and Finkel refusing to meet with Hearn to even discuss it?
And if Finkel and Wilder were so aggrieved by key details missing in the contract, why didn’t they refer back to matchroom, instead of procrastinating and posturing (as Noelanthony described it). They knew Matchroom was under pressure by the WBA, yet they ****ed about.
Noelanthony has hit the nail on the head with his post. It would help if you took off the Wilder shades too. Neither side was totally serious about making this happen from the off.
The way I see it, Hearn is happy to wait- Joshua has another one or two big fights he can make in the meantime, so if Wilder’s team want to play games, we’ll chuck them a low-ball offer and leave it up to them. Wilder needs AJ. AJ doesn’t need Wilder, not yet. Without AJ, Wilder goes back to fighting bums in Alabama. Hearn is in control, he can leave Wilder in the wilderness and he’s enjoying it. Shades of Mayweather in the negotiations.
Wilder’s team are (rightfully) annoyed by the low offer and games by Hearn, so they play games too, by making ridiculous offers which have no context or backbone, just to create social media buzz, and by then ****ing about when they did have a realistic offer on the table.
Only the most hardcore, fact-twisting moron can think one side is totally to blame in all this and the other side is completely innocent. Both sides have mucked about and butted heads.
Both sides want the fight, I believe both would have taken it next, but Hearn is the one who is probably happier to delay, knowing he has at least one other bumper payday he can reap beforehand.
Wilder’s team on the other hand just can’t get out of their own way. Hearn is right when he says he’s not being promoted properly. His team have made bad decision after bad decision, which is why he’s fought 1 decent (but totally unproven) fighter in 40 fights, he’s never fought anyone relevant, it’s why there are usually more people lining up waiting for their orders at the nearest KFC than there are at his fights, and why nobody knows, or even cares, who he is.
I get the ‘Parker had xxx split so Wilder needs more’ argument, but Parker was a bigger name in his home country for sure. Parker actually brought something to the table. And to be honest, he probably ended up with less than $15 million after the split.
And if Finkel and Wilder were so aggrieved by key details missing in the contract, why didn’t they refer back to matchroom, instead of procrastinating and posturing (as Noelanthony described it). They knew Matchroom was under pressure by the WBA, yet they ****ed about.
Noelanthony has hit the nail on the head with his post. It would help if you took off the Wilder shades too. Neither side was totally serious about making this happen from the off.
The way I see it, Hearn is happy to wait- Joshua has another one or two big fights he can make in the meantime, so if Wilder’s team want to play games, we’ll chuck them a low-ball offer and leave it up to them. Wilder needs AJ. AJ doesn’t need Wilder, not yet. Without AJ, Wilder goes back to fighting bums in Alabama. Hearn is in control, he can leave Wilder in the wilderness and he’s enjoying it. Shades of Mayweather in the negotiations.
Wilder’s team are (rightfully) annoyed by the low offer and games by Hearn, so they play games too, by making ridiculous offers which have no context or backbone, just to create social media buzz, and by then ****ing about when they did have a realistic offer on the table.
Only the most hardcore, fact-twisting moron can think one side is totally to blame in all this and the other side is completely innocent. Both sides have mucked about and butted heads.
Both sides want the fight, I believe both would have taken it next, but Hearn is the one who is probably happier to delay, knowing he has at least one other bumper payday he can reap beforehand.
Wilder’s team on the other hand just can’t get out of their own way. Hearn is right when he says he’s not being promoted properly. His team have made bad decision after bad decision, which is why he’s fought 1 decent (but totally unproven) fighter in 40 fights, he’s never fought anyone relevant, it’s why there are usually more people lining up waiting for their orders at the nearest KFC than there are at his fights, and why nobody knows, or even cares, who he is.
I get the ‘Parker had xxx split so Wilder needs more’ argument, but Parker was a bigger name in his home country for sure. Parker actually brought something to the table. And to be honest, he probably ended up with less than $15 million after the split.
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