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

[PunchyPotorff]

LOL at the Wilderholics making excuses YET AGAIN for their lord-and-master Wilder. Here's a big money fight for your idol, yet you STILL won't just shut the he!! up and be happy for it. Oh, your guy isn't being respected enough? Pfffffft at you clowns. You're just skeered Whyte embarrasses Wilder. End of story. If not? Then just shut up and let the fight happen. I've had it with your Wilder twits.

[nixxter]

Wilder wanted 7 million and AJ guaranteed next in order to fight Whyte. That was to fight Whyte in the UK. Instead he will be offered 7.6 million plus the fight being in the US. Fantastic offer! Let's see if Wilder lives up to his word.

[Scipio2009]

Who is Wilder going to face then? Who's this top fighter he'll go after?

Whomever he wants, because Joshua/Hearn are screwing with the public. He'll likely fight October/November, likely from Barclays Center, and the fight will be on Showtime or primetime CBS.

Breazeale or Kownacki are the likely options (Whyte get beat by both), and then Wilder is likely looking at a PPV event for the Spring if Joshua is still on his BS (Ortiz, and possibly Tyson Fury depending on what they Warren still thinks he has).

[Scipio2009]

Joshua is the A side though, he gets to choose where the fight takes place. If Wilder doesn't like it he can go kick rocks.

The Deontay Wilder show on PPV? Hahahaha Tell me, who is Wilder going to fight on PPV?

Anthony Joshua has Povetkin in September, and then the IBF is going to be on his neck to fight Kubrat Pulev. With the boxing world already talking about Joshua not looking to fight Wilder anytime soon, how is it then going to look if he gives up the IBF belt to fight Dillian Whyte again at Wembley? lol.

Deontay Wilder drew an average of near 1.2 million homes for the Ortiz fight, competing against a UFC PPV and a live card on HBO.

The audience is there for Wilder to make the attempt; stage one more event to confirm that the audience is with Wilder, and then test the PPV.

In terms of opponent, Luis Ortiz makes the most sense (if the Joshua fight doesn't happen), the live PPV would likely do an easy 300k-500k buys, and the re-air will likely still do north of 1m homes if the audience numbers hold.

250k homes puts the worth of the US TV rights at over $8m.

[Scipio2009]

So it's alright for Wilder to offer an opponent 15%? Why aren't his opponents allowed to have a big percentage like you think Wilder should?

Because Wilder is carrying his show, and the next fight is a voluntary defense of his title. Value is key, but you don't care anyway.

Wilder takes Anthony Joshua from being a European star, whom his promoter has basically maxed his home revenue at $45m-$50m on the event, to a global interest looking at $50m as the purse just to him, with hints at the total revenue for the fighters being $75m-$100m.

If you bring value the split changes; Ortiz got more than that, Povetkin was due for more than that, and there's no doubt that Joshua and Fury will get well more than that too.

If you don't bring any value, you're a body, and bodies generally get 10%-15% for simply showing up to fight. Dillian Whyte is a body; he has no belt, he's not highly rated, he has no traveling support, he doesn't have any real interest from US TV, he's not mandatory, etc.

[Iamsmoke89]

It's OK, you're scared for Wilder. You're not used to seeing him take risky fights. He should get back to fighting bums. Why take on a top fighter to prove yourself for massive money? That would be ****** wouldn't it?

Mind how you go.

Not scared for Wilder at all. Have whyte take that risky fight against Ortiz like wbc wanted him to. He want wilder go through ortiz enough said.

[cameltoe]

Whomever he wants, because Joshua/Hearn are screwing with the public. He'll likely fight October/November, likely from Barclays Center, and the fight will be on Showtime or primetime CBS.

Breazeale or Kownacki are the likely options (Whyte get beat by both), and then Wilder is likely looking at a PPV event for the Spring if Joshua is still on his BS (Ortiz, and possibly Tyson Fury depending on what they Warren still thinks he has).

Yeaaah... nah.

Although I do have to give credit to the way Wilder fans build up his opponents, past and future, into elite level fighters.

Of course they were bums before Wilder planned to fight them.

[skinnystev]

pin head whyte already beaten by the underwearsalesman why would birdlegs want his leftovers let pinhead fight ortiz

[killakali]

Don't let Hearn distract you. Boxing fans want Wilder vs Joshua. That has not changed. Hearn claimed to be trying to make the Wilder vs Joshua fight, so don't try to justify Hearn trying to sell us a lesser fight now. Wilder is the WBC champion and has had a longer reign than Joshua, so it's incredibly disrespectful for Hearn to be trying to give Wilder ultimatums. "If Wilder beats this guy, I'll let him fight that guy." Nah, how about "when Joshua grows a pair, Wilder will let him try his luck."

u don’t get it. AJ already is fighting in September. Why are u telling wilder to sit outntill AJs next date which is April

[Ake-Dawg]

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.

Exactly what I was thinking. The AJ fans will scream that that's 22M for two fights! Way more than he gets normally. True statement...but would that mean leaving 10M on the table. That's not an easy call to make.