Comments Thread For: Holyfield Crossing His Fingers That Wilder vs. Joshua Happens

[Oshio]

No way this fight happens until late 2019 or 2020

[Nightfall]

Joshua is cornered to fight the Wilder-Fury winner. If they duck any of the two it's going to be a big mess

[Patsfan bri]

Hearn needs to stop trying to pressure wilder into signing the 15 million contract before re he even fights fury. I can see Hearn now , he will offer the fight to Whyte and then say wilder ducked AJ. Aj has to wait for the smoke to clear after December 1 and fight the winner. If he doesn’t, it is a clear duck to fight either man and even the biggest AJ fans would have to admit it.

[Madison Boxing]

Until team wilder ditch their ridiculous demands they won't be getting the fight. Joshua has plenty of options, his career doesn't resolve around deontay wilder.

[MisanthropicNY]

Joshua said he'd still fight him after the two losses to Fury, so end of 2019 get ready. Hopefully Wilder still isn't clinging to 50/50 by then.

[Dramacyde]

The British coward is a disgrace to all the past great Heavyweight champions

[Szef]

From all heavyweights from 90-is, I respect Holyfield the most. he fought them all. he fought Bowe, Tyson, Lewis, Foreman..

Absolutely.

Great fighter, never ducked anyone.

[davefromvancouv]

Until team wilder ditch their ridiculous demands they won't be getting the fight. Joshua has plenty of options, his career doesn't resolve around deontay wilder.

Holyfield disagrees with you:

[landotter]

2020 with the way things are going. By then it would be a 50-50 fight.

I can't see it. Too many variables, too much chance one or the other loses and the big dollar road show be lost to them both. I can see Joshua's camp seeing what happened to the Amir Khan/ Kell Brook fight. 2 years ago, that was a HUGE fight with both ready to go to war and the public ready to fork over true cash. Now they are both damaged in the PR department, the fight is long past it's expiration date, and they fight may still happen and be worth only a fraction of what it was.

Wilder and Joshua are both undefeated, have all the belts and the lineal title (so long as Wilder wins, of course) and 2019 is the time. If not April, then sometime in the summer. There is too much cash at stake.

[landotter]

The British coward is a disgrace to all the past great Heavyweight champions

Wow. That was harsh in ways 220 grit sandpaper is envious of.

Joshua's record is fine, and I do not get why this guy gets that much grief. Other than Wilder, who else is out there for Joshua has ducked? He has unified, solidified, defended, and handled his mandatories and some decent fighters. The HW division is stronger now than in Klitschko's and Holmes reign, and Joshua has handled pretty much who is out there. There is no Lennix, Evander, Rid****, or Tyson out there right now. There certainly isn't any Ali, Frazier, or Foreman.

He and Wilder will fight. I know it, anyone who has seen this soap opera knows it. Too much money and legacy at stake. They both need this fight. Hopefully in April or mid 2019, but it will happen. I am fine with the debate as to why it hasn't happened yet (I get why most feel it is Joshua's teams fault). But it will, and then Joshua will have stepped up to everyone worth a crap in his era.