Comments Thread For: Hearn To Make "Huge" Offer To Wilder, For Whyte Bout in NYC

[Alan Smithee]

Only way Fast Eddie offers Wilder $7-8M for a Brooklyn fight vs. Whyte is if Wilder agrees to that $15M flat fee vs. Joshua. So don't get your hopes up.

I agree. This sounds like there is more than just strings attached. If it is a legit offer without conditions then I believe that Wider should accept. Knockout out Whyte and then Joshua. " The British are coming" to get KNOCKED out!

[rolshans]

Yep, and the reason they don't is going to be the same reason they fail in the US.

Like I said, if DAZN's business model is a no sale for AJ, it damn sure is the same for any emerging US star, especially one like Deontay, with the most lucrative fight in the sport on his menu.

Wait... you do know that AJ's last three fights have been on DAZN, right? Or maybe you don't know that

[Vae Victis]

I don't know what's really going on with these negotiations, and it doesn't look great on either party, but, to give Eddie his due, this will introduce Wilder to a larger UK audience, which is where most of the ££££ will be coming from.

Because other than Non Stop Ortiz Is The Second Coming Boxing, no one really gives a **** about Wilder, do they? Just being honest... the guy couldn't sell out a phone booth. Business.

What part of the fifty million dollars guaranteed will, "most of the ££££ will be coming from"? None of it.

[KTFOKING]

It will be on DAZN in the US.

In Britain, Sky Sports PPV.

So why in HADES would Wilder fight on DAZN, knowing that not only will Showtime ante up for the US rights but he might be able to negotiate for some of the SkyBox PPV as well?

You are right.

If it is DAZN, it better be more than 7M.

Right, because there is no DAZN in the UK.

Anyways, Wilder needs to fight on SHO again after doing great numbers vs Ortiz. Build on that momentum, don't fight on a streaming service that will be in its beginning stages.

[Mrbamladen]

If Whyte wants a shot at wilder, then he has to take whatever wilder feels like giving him. Wilder should offer him 2m with 40% of the UK rights. You don't make an offer to the champ, and Eddie doesn't offer anything to a major player like haymon. You take what you get if you want the fight.

[koolkc107]

Wait... you do know that AJ's last three fights have been on DAZN, right? Or maybe you don't know that

Yep, that is exactly why they announced that the fight with Povetkin will be his first on DAZN.

Do better next time.

[rolshans]

Yep, that is exactly why they announced that the fight with Povetkin will be his first on DAZN.

Do better next time.

https://watch.dazn.com/en-CA/joshua-v-takam/

Yikes!

Sorry, this is getting mean

[Corelone]

* with options on Wilder's following fight.

The whole thing now is nobody trusts Hearn. He comes on with these tabloid headlines, but then you find out about the indentured servitude. Once you let him in, you can't get rid of him, like a hemorroid, and if you think that's good, ask Indongo or Parker. He's a jinx.

[koolkc107]

Right, because there is no DAZN in the UK.

Anyways, Wilder needs to fight on SHO again after doing great numbers vs Ortiz. Build on that momentum, don't fight on a streaming service that will be in its beginning stages.

Which brings me back to "do" in the "do, re, me" I hope Hearn isn't trying to pull.

I will say it again.

If Hearn insists this new 7M offer HAS TO BE ON DAZN, you know it is bullshyt.

It's Fast Eddie trying to pull one of Showtime's stars away AND bolster DAZN in the US at the same time.

And, it would be ****** for any US fighter who has aspirations for PPV to take such an offer and Eddie has to know that.

[KTFOKING]

Which brings me back to "do" in the "do, re, me" I hope Hearn isn't trying to pull.

I will say it again.

If Hearn insists this new 7M offer HAS TO BE ON DAZN, you know it is bullshyt.

It's Fast Eddie trying to pull one of Showtime's stars away AND bolster DAZN in the US at the same time.

And, it would be ****** for any US fighter who has aspirations for PPV to take such an offer and Eddie has to know that.

Of course, he wants his DAZN platform to kick off and he knows it isn't going to happen with the likes of Andrade or Miller or even Joshua/Povetkin. Joshua still only does like 300-350k on the afternoon broadcasts so he won't move the needle. But he knows Wilder/Joshua will be something that attracts a crazy amount of subscribers. And if he could get Wilder vs Whyte/Chisora on DAZN? He would LOVE that.

But that just isn't going to happen.