Comments Thread For: Anthony Joshua Smiles: This Payday is Deontay Wilder's Legacy!

[R_Walken]

It’s obvious at this point AJ and his team will only fight Wilder when he thinks he’s past prime and not at his best

All his statement from AJ / Papa Hearn point to that whether it’s fight him in 2020

He only has 2-3 years left of being in top form

Expected but disappointing

[Nightfall]

This coward turned down a guaranteed $50 million plus upside incentives with a concrete automatic rematch claus

[yammy25]

This coward turned down a guaranteed $50 million plus upside incentives with a concrete automatic rematch claus

To fight on a rival network to that of which he has an exclusive contract with, and with absolutely no contract or even a terms sheet.

"No meeting or contract til you accept"

GTFOH... Both sides are playing the game with eachother. The fight will get made for April ..don't know why everyone still gives this topic any time. The best thing to do would be for people to not bother talking about it in all honesty

[WarCarter813]

Why negotiate a fight before his upcoming December 1st fight when they can start talks after he beats Fury? Wilder stock rises even higher when he has the lineal belt to go with the WBC belt. There's no logic to start negotiating now

[BigStomps]

To fight on a rival network to that of which he has an exclusive contract with, and with absolutely no contract or even a terms sheet.

"No meeting or contract til you accept"

GTFOH... Both sides are playing the game with eachother. The fight will get made for April ..don't know why everyone still gives this topic any time. The best thing to do would be for people to not bother talking about it in all honesty

Then why are you on here talking about it?? 🤔🤔

[The plunger man]

If Joshua wants Wilder next it's a very easy problem to solve. Offer Wilder 50/50 and the fights done so it's not a financial reason it's not done. This should be about legacy and not money.

in business and in life you don't reward someone more that what they are worth.
It's a simple truth.
However to get this fight made he should offer a 60/40 split and thats it and wilder will make far more than he has ever made in his career.....tell me a boxer that makes well over 1.2 ppv buys, packs out mega stadiums willl then share his rewards on an even level against a boxer who has never sold a ppv and his biggest fighting audience is 12k.
Behave its not going to happen if wilder insists its 50/50

[BigStomps]

This coward turned down a guaranteed $50 million plus upside incentives with a concrete automatic rematch claus

I agree with you man.. That punk Joshua said give $50 million and I swear to god I'll sign the contract tomorrow... And what happened??
He got the money he wanted but then he started backpedaling.
Joshua is a punk!
And I was rooting for Joshua to beat Wilder before he turned down the $50 million!
Now if they ever Fight I hope Wilder beats the brakes off Joshua!

[Scipio2009]

Wilder will never get 50-50 split against AJ. AJ is the biggest name in division, if Wilder wants the fight, he should thate what is offered. GGG didn`t get 50 -50 split against canelo as well.

Golovkin had no chance to draw money without Alvarez, and everyone knew it.

Deontay Wilder isn't where Anthony Joshua is in the UK, but he's been aggressively building his reach over the last two years, to the point that Showtime was basically ready to go with a PPV push for the initial Tyson Fury confrontation.

MGM Resorts now has money on offer for big Deontay Wilder fights (the Joshua fight, the Fury fight, and likely the Ortiz rematch have already drawn Vegas interest), and 500k PPV homes (depending on how they price it) for Wilder-Fury turns the US rights to the fight into $20m (£14.3m), which you can add the UK money from BT Sport Box Office, the site fee, and the other revenues.

A successful Wilder-Fury PPV basically ends all talk of Wilder simply taking what Joshua offers because the charade will be over; Wembley doesn't come close to matching the money coming from Las Vegas, and Wilder's market selling PPV for double what Joshua's market is ready to bear will dwarf Sky Box Office soon as well.

[Scipio2009]

in business and in life you don't reward someone more that what they are worth.
It's a simple truth.
However to get this fight made he should offer a 60/40 split and thats it and wilder will make far more than he has ever made in his career.....tell me a boxer that makes well over 1.2 ppv buys, packs out mega stadiums willl then share his rewards on an even level against a boxer who has never sold a ppv and his biggest fighting audience is 12k.
Behave its not going to happen if wilder insists its 50/50

For all the accolades and acclaim that Anthony Joshua has achieved in the UK, it was Wilder's that offered him the $50m purse that he himself thought was so unseemly an amount of money that he'd take it with no question, and the offer even came with upside (in case it broke past Mayweather-Alvarez territory).

Maybe Eddie Hearn was bull****ting the entire time but if Joseph Parker was able to get a third of the event, the Wilder offer should've been 40% from the jump.

Eddie picked around, waited until Wilder was ready to take short money to prove a point, and then magically the WBA was no longer offering even a day more of an extension and Hearn was trying to lock in the **** fight terms for a future date and not the next fight (the reason why Wilder took the **** terms) with Joshua the only fighter with the rematch clause and Hearn dictating where Wilder could put the US TV.

For wasting all of that time, and trying to sully his name, I don't see 50/50 and a straight up fight (no rematch clause for anyone) as being a bad place to start, tbh.

And that's before you even get to the US TV

[LacedUp]

he won't even offer a split

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/6507825/deontay-wilder-anthony-joshua-fight-2/

Wilder accepted a flat fee?