Comments Thread For: Barry Hearn: We Should Wait Two Years To Make Joshua-Wilder

[ELPacman]

Barry Hearn's is probably the puppeteer here controlling Eddie and ultimately AJ. Old man is shook of Wilder and will not risk the companies greatest asset yet.

[davidw9785]

Not anything we didn’t know, but it still pisses me off to read this.

Reading this was disgusting. Yeah, we all knew Hearn and Co. are milking the public and teasing us with the fight people actually want to see. But to hear this sh#t directly?!! F@ck that. He's talking like the most entitled, POS coward businessman. As boxing fans, do we just hear this and say "OK, you know what, he's right. I'll wait 2 years for the fight I actually want to see and pay you money to maintain AJ's career in the meantime..." NO! F@ck that.

At this point in time, I'll be boycotting anything Matchroom, DAZN, AJ, Hearn related. Yeah, I'm only one hardcore boxing fan and my few dollars a month don't mean much, but I can't read that sh@t and pretend like that's OK. That was disgusting to read

[davidw9785]

Hearn just turned heavyweight boxing into the butt of all jokes with his lame wait two years comments. There is no defending this sht and Joshua is incapable of putting Hearn in his place which is even more pathetic.

Yeah, that was the biggest load of steaming sh@t I ever read in a while. The underlying assumption here is that British/AJ fans will keep paying money to keep this guys career growing!! F@CK THAT!! What a scam. That's complete garbage. Fans need to stop paying their hard-earned money to subsidize what is turning into a joke of a heavyweight boxing career. Where is the desire to be great? The risk to be legendary? The balls to be someone who goes down in history as an ATG??

[Ray*]

That’s his opinion. That doesn’t change anything. Some people can read what they want to read into it. There was an offer on the table. It was turned down, we move on. Now everyone gets to get more money like they actually wanted in the first place once Wilder beats Fury.

[Leonbus2]

Mayweather waited 6 years to fight Manny.

[Travycat]

In his defense, Barry Hearn also thinks it's 1986.

[N/A]

Wilder was offered $12.5 mil, which is almost 10x his average purse.

How would you have any idea what his average purse is?

[Corelone]

I'm not for marinating anything. Hearn wants to charge $150 tomorrow when I can see it for $100 today. Like that's going to happen. 2 years isn't marinating, that's not even fermenting, that's cold storage.

[Willowthewisp]

As a fan of boxing I want to see this fight happen asap as both boxers give a middle finger to the promoters before jumping into the ring

[Sickmerch1990]

I think Joshua needs to forget talk of wilder and put yo bed the tough Russian povektein it's a huge fight and been at the top for a decade and much tougher fight than Parker or takam