Comments Thread For: Hearn Frustrated: Deontay Wilder's Team Refusing To Meet

[Bronx2245]

"Based on past interviews, Wilder's team is not interested in making a deal until after the Fury bout is concluded - and Hearn wants a deal in place prior to the December 1 contest with Fury."

They would be ****** to make the deal now! They have to wait and see how the fight does, and I'm talking revenue, and not the number of fans who attended! Team Wilder has 50 million reasons NOT to meet with Eddie Hearn!

[R_Walken]

Yeah .. Morrison got caught cold in the first minute of the fight and KTFO by Michael Bentt. He did fight Lewis 2 years later, but he had no title himself then so he didn't make anywhere as much as he could have made in a unification.

Anything can happen in HW boxing!

michael Bentt & he lost a 6 million pay day. Mercer did the same when he lost a tuneup to jesse ferguson. The alleged 100000 bribe fight. Mercer was to fight Bowe & lost 4 million purse

Thanks to both for the comments and examples .

it’s foolish for a fighter and their team to negotiate another fight when he has one lined up even if it is a soft touch ( and this one isn’t )

This sport probably has countless examples of fighters getting to far ahead of themselves planning their next big payday only to lose thenfight they have right ahead of them

[SteveM]

True although I think after he beats a couple of Brits it will be a huge fight over here once the sky hype machine gets going. Plus getting outvoxed by usyk wouldnt destroy his career, he'll still be a big attraction

You can let Usyk beat Bellew, Chisora, even Whyte, but a Usyk-AJ fight will still not be bigger than a Wilder fight is now or after December 1st when an AJ-Wilder fight will be huge if he is coming off a KO of Fury.

All Usyk can contribute to promotion is a scary stare. Doesn't speak English. Plus Wilder will be very well known to British casuals after the Fury fight.

So you throwing out Usyk's name is just a red herring. It likely will never be a bigger fight than AJ-Wilder unless Usyk somehow got to Wilder first and beat him and that would be hysterical.

AJ will not be doing anything like the numbers he is now if he gets beaten. He'd have to rebuild and take a huge hit in viewers and earnings. He could come back but he'd lose 2/3 years of the astronomical earnings he ha now.

[kafkod]

I lean towards Fury beating the both of them.

But I am most interested on how giving up 40 odd pounds to Tyson Fury will really manifest itself in the fight. Near on 3 stone. We won’t really know until it begins.

I've been hearing that Fury is going to be training with Abel Sanchez at Big Bear for the fight. If that turns out to be true, it likely means he intends fighting on the front foot, using his weight advantage to push Wilder back, nullify his long right hand and wear him down.

It could work. But will the ref allow Fury to fight like that, or will he be calling "break" every time Tyson gets in close?

Call me cynical, but I'm not expecting either the judges or the ref to be 100% impartial in this fight.

[_Rexy_]

Thanks to both for the comments and examples .

it’s foolish for a fighter and their team to negotiate another fight when he has one lined up even if it is a soft touch ( and this one isn’t )

This sport probably has countless examples of fighters getting to far ahead of themselves planning their next big payday only to lose thenfight they have right ahead of them

To use a more recent example, Ricky Hatton had a big money return match against Paulie lined up until he got KTFO in an unneeded tune up

[SteveM]

Totally agree. Wilder will be irrelevant after Fury boxes him ugly for 12 round.

Want to bet some points on that? Half your points?

[Raggamuffin]

When someone ****s you over once you don’t let them do it again. “Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me”!

[JWHardin]

Move on Hearn! Throw an offer at Luis Ortiz.

[Sparked_26]

I've been hearing that Fury is going to be training with Abel Sanchez at Big Bear for the fight. If that turns out to be true, it likely means he intends fighting on the front foot, using his weight advantage to push Wilder back, nullify his long right hand and wear him down.

It could work. But will the ref allow Fury to fight like that, or will he be calling "break" every time Tyson gets in close?

Call me cynical, but I'm not expecting either the judges or the ref to be 100% impartial in this fight.

In my head that is how I’ve always expected him to fight.
He did it well against Chisora in their first fight

You’d want to get close to stop that right hand. But then Steve Bunce always talks about how Tyson showed him how he will beat Wlad. He literally just leaned back and said that’s how. But with Wilder’s speed and tentacle arms you’d think he’d not want to do that this time. Wilder will get to him

[Adamsc151]

Want to bet some points on that? Half your points?

lol, that will be like sticking half your wedge on either red or black at the roulette table - the only 2 realistic results being Fury winning an ugly points decision, or Wilder catching him once within the 12 rounds to win by KO.