Comments Thread For: Arum: Wilder-Fury Was Tremendous - Joshua is Number 3!

[Bronx2245]

"I think Anthony Joshua is number 3. I think they should forget about Anthony Joshua, fight in the United States and fight each other," Arum said.

The rematch is going to sell like crazy! I disagree with Bob regarding location! I think Fury deserves to have it in the UK, but the projected gate needs to be higher than those of last weekend! The rematch is also big enough for Las Vegas too! Fury was made for Las Vegas!

[Bardamu]

"I think Anthony Joshua is number 3. I think they should forget about Anthony Joshua, fight in the United States and fight each other," Arum said.

The rematch is going to sell like crazy! I disagree with Bob regarding location! I think Fury deserves to have it in the UK, but the projected gate needs to be higher than those of last weekend! The rematch is also big enough for Las Vegas too! Fury was made for Las Vegas!

What a fighter "deserves" doesn't effect the location. $$$$ determines where a fight takes place. If the fight starts between 10-11:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on a Saturday, then yes, have it in England. If
that is the time of a rematch it will sell at least a half million ppvs at $75 a pop.

[Pennsauken1]

I don’t even think AJoke is #3, Ortiz and Baby Miller beats this paper champ who is fighting tomatoe cans over in the Queenland

[Pennsauken1]

It’s not about the belts that were bought by Heddie *****, it’s about the competition you are fighting, this clown AJuce is a fraud

[Melfast]

It makes me laugh how people get so emotionally caught up in this who is ducking who argument.

The promoters are playing you like puppets on a string. The Joshua Wilder fight could have been made this year, but playing the whole saga out in the media, with an army of fanboys on either side constantly bashing the other side builds up the excitement and interest for when it eventually happens. And when the two fight, which they will because it makes too much money for them to not make it, the fight will make so much more money than if it was made in 2017 or 2018.

Promoters marinate fights to make people crave them, so that more PPVs are bought. Everything coming out from Hearn, Haymon, Finkel is just to ramp up the interest. If you're smart you wouldn't trust a word any of them says. You have to read between the lines and be capable of some original thought, rather than taking exactly what either side says at face value and using it as a stick to bash the other.

[ShoulderRoll]

Arum sees Eddie Hearn/DAZN as his rivals so he is trying to undermine them at every turn.

That said, he is actually right on this one.