Comments Thread For: Hearn: If Fury Beats Wilder, Rematch Will Prevent Joshua-Fury

[_Rexy_]

"Hearn's rationale is that he doesn't want to wait until December 2 to begin negotiating again with Wilder's adviser, Al Haymon, and co-manager, Shelly Finkel, because based on their previous negotiations Hearn knows it'll be a complicated process to finalize a deal for England's Joshua and Alabama's Wilder to meet in a heavyweight title unification fight April 13 at Wembley Stadium in London."

Hearn had a sly dig at Finkel and Wilder during the Usyk/Bellew presser. He didn't mention them by name, but he was obviously alluding to them when he said how refreshing it was to be dealing with honest poeple, who really wanted to make a fight, because if both sides are honest, it doesn't take long to get it done.

Fury and Wilders camps made the same dig a few weeks ago lol

[TheFrog]

Not really he has explained why he is doing it now as team Wildenr piss around for ages and AJ wants to know his opponent for April in good time.

Hearn has said negotiating will be on the basis of Wilder beating Fury so any extra leverage from that win will be taken into account.

I mean Hearn has explained what he WANTS you to think is his reasoning. If he coninues to play hardball and gives credit for a Wilder win but not what it means financially then you should be able to draw your own conclusions from that.

If I'm wrong I'll admit it but I predict that Hearn makes pretty similar offers to what he did before (meaning that he's ignoring Wilder/Fury) He will then say something along the lines of "Team Wilder missed the deadline. We need to move on with AJs career and can't wait around for them"

[P4Pdunny]

how so Eddie. Regardless, i'd love to see AJ flatten that hater

[nick_viking]

What other options does Joshua have?

He’s said it will be Whyte or Wilder so seems like a straight choice. However he’s also said Whyte will rematch Chisora on 22 Dec, so...

Other options could be Usyk, Miller, or the winner of Pulev v mini Fury.

Got to be Wilder or Tyson though surely. Anything else is filler. (Could make an argument for Usyk, but would be his first pro fight at heavy)

[Sosay]

Juat sign the Whyte fight and get it over with.

[STREET CLEANER]

Hearn buttering up AJ's fan base to justify a Whyte fight.

Wilder is fighting Fury and they cannot negotiate an AJ fight.

But if Wilder wins they will down play the value of the fight and offer another flat fee.