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

[N/A]

AJ has always claimed the fight had to be in the UK. Nothing points to him thinking the money was only there for a fight in the US.

AJ's own words were, "they're saying it's a 100 million dollar fight" and that if that was true, he'd take 50. AJ & Hearn both went on record saying Finkel claimed it was 100 million in the US. Nobody on either side ever claimed it was 100 million in the UK. Asking for 50 million was specifically in response to Wilder's team claiming the fight was worth 100 million in the US, a claim AJ & Hearn disputed. So AJ, not believing it was worth 100 in the US, called Finkel's bluff by demanding 50.

[OgTripleOg]

Because Dillian wants a shot at a title. He's earned that right with his win over Parker. He shouldn't have to fight Ortiz as well.

You Wilder fans are crazy and scared. No doubt about it.

Ortiz won and whyte won so winner of that should get to fight AJ or wilder.

[pedro1098]

if the wbc have anything about them they should make wilder fight whyte.its as simple as that

[killakali]

$2.5m is only Wilder's guarantee. He'll likely see 14k+ tickets sold at Barclays, along with the other pieces of the pot that he'll likely get a piece of on the back end.

And, he'll be fighting in front of 1.5m people (count the Showtime live homes plus the viewers on the SHO app) instead of the maybe 15000 folks on DAZN.

Two strong numbers, back to back, and Wilder-Ortiz 2 in the spring can go to PPV.

This is a turtle race

he won’t see more than 3 million for a Breazeale fight. He’s still better off getting 8 mil for Whyte in a one off fighting in my back yard with 5 people watching DAZN. He can get that big payday and still fight Ortiz after

[champion4ever]

Frank Warren has just shitted all on Eddie Hearn's big announcement this week; To make a huge $8mil offer to Wilder for a Whyte Bout In NYC. It couldn't have been done more beautifully.

Speaking of a major screw job, the timing of this couldn't have been more perfect. Frank has pissed off a lot of Joshua fan boys and I couldn't have been more happy.

I guess Eddie Hearn can cancel his trip to the U.S now this week after all. Frank, I salute you my friend.

Continue the good work at Boxnation and filling up capacity crowds in Great Britain as I wish you all the best in promoting the Wilder vs Fury bout in December.

[Ray*]

No different than what Hearn is trying to do with Joshua, what's to stop Wilder and his camp from saying something like "thanks for the $8m offer, but we've got a loyalty to Showtime/CBS, and a working relationship that goes back 5 years that we want to keep building. Still, if Whyte is available, how about you send him over to fight on our Showtime card, here's $250k for the event, and Sky Sports gets the option to match for the UK rights"?

The IBF isn't going to let Joshua sit on their belt until April to make a voluntary defense, and it's odd that no one else is even mentioning that.

Depending on what it's competing against, Wilder-Whyte has the potential to be seen by at least 1.5m homes in the US (counting the folks tuning into the channel and live streaming on the SHO app). 2am and Dillian Whyte is likely a tough sell in the UK, but I couldn't imagine the UK number not doing near what Wilder-Ortiz did.

DAZN, come September for Joshua's fight (assuming it follows the track that ESPN+, WWE Network, UFC Fight pass, SHO app), might be on 20k devices, if that.

Firstly my post had nothing to do with Joshua, secondly am talking about good fight options for Wilder in regards to Whyte. This new offer to Wilder to fight this year is for the fight to happen in America, so yeah if Team Wilder wants to send him a contract for a fight to appear on showtime am sure Team Whyte would jump on it. Not sure what Whyte usually makes but if they are willing to pay him 5 times his usual pay to appear on PBC/showtime and he turns it down then he cannot moan that Wilder is ducking him. That would be a great chance to take the WBC belt off Wilder and that should be his motivation.

[R_Walken]

Let’s see

Fight Hearns pawn with out anAJ guarantee on a streaming service no ones heard of

Or try to fight Fury technically who’s still the lineal Champ in a PPV that will probably generate more $ then what’s Hearns offering and winner becomes the #1 HW

Tough choice

[P4Pdunny]

This would be good if it happens before April so we can get the big one

[Bronx2245]

Because Whyte is a better and more proven fighter than Miller is. Plus the money is huge for Whyte whereas it will be nowhere near to that against Miller.

Makes perfect sense. But I know you're scared for Wilder, which is why you're saying this. And you have good reason to, because Whyte can most definitely beat Wilder. Wilder would be the favourite, but Whyte is a live dog. Wilder struggles with bums so he will definitely struggle with this one at the very least.

Let Miller eat! If he can't have Whyte, then let him have Wilder! Whyte lost to Joshua, and Miller hasn't gotten ***** since he's been with MatchRoom!

[Bronx2245]

Because after likely talking all that **** to get the deal in the first place, delivering a matinee AJ fight in September, an October that has no interest, a talked about card for Los Angeles, and then "Big Baby" Miller headlining your first show in New York, with no real other stars waiting in the wings to be announced, DAZN won't be extending the deal after the two years are up, and may even look to cut bait early.

They are disrespecting Miller! He should be able to fight Whyte, Ortiz, or Wilder! How you gonna give a London guy a title shot before the Brooklyn guy, and then put the fight in NYC! That's foul!