Comments Thread For: Jarrell Miller: Joshua Offer Has Gotten Better, 50-50 We'll Fight!

[thack]

This is what happens when you're looking for the best option of what's left.

[*Makaveli*]

Hearn has very publicly offered Wilder 40% to AJ 60%, if that is insulting to Wilder then he is clearly overvaluing himself.

He's offering 40% now that Wilder is deep in negotiations with Fury and unavailable.
When Wilder was free and asking to fight , fast Eddie offered him a few pounds and a bag of chocolate buttons

[TinAgeOfBoxing]

Perfect for both of Hearns hoes. Miller has had a soft road with cherry picked crap fights and no VADA. If he does not fight AJ he may have to fight a top contender with testing. Miller does not have the reach or power or foot speed to threaten AJ.

[Toffee]

I quite like Miller. Isn't smart, doesn't try to be smart. I get the feeling you can believe what he's saying.

Still think it will be Whyte though.

[Marvlus Marv]

Eddie is officially scrambling to keep his boy relevant.

[Zaxspeed]

Apparently the community here skipped reading comprehension. LOL

Agree with this - Note Miller also says the offer is good (hunt for the recent video interview) - doesn't use the word lowball at all.

This can be interpreted in various ways accordiing to your agenda:
1) Joshua gives Miller so a fair offer 'cos he thinks it is the easy fight. He is milking his fan base and lowballing Fury/Wilder/Whyte to avoid risky fights.

2) Joshua has beaten up top quality opponents. Fury/Wilder/Whyte only want to fight him if they are getting paid very big.

3) Wilder & Fury have a good alternative option (rematch on US PPV with $$ upside), Dillian Whyte is making a mistake.

I see the following implied % chance of Joshua victory per bookmakers odds:
Fury - 55%
Wilder - 67%
Whyte - 80%
Uysk - 82%
Miller - 83%

Bookies have to price correctly or they lose their shirts. Whyte is not a much harder fight than Miller. Dillian is making a mistake if he turns down the opportunity to fight Joshua at Wembley for 3 belts - if he won it would be by far the biggest win of his career.

[_Rexy_]

Question..... what would happen if Joshua retired tomorrow?

Nothing would change. Wilder would still face Fury. Whyte would probably fight for the vacant WBO belt against either Shwarz or Miller. Pulev fights for the vacant IBF against Kabayel, and since the WBA is corrupt, they throw the vacant super title into the fury/wilder fight for absolutely no reason (like they did with Joshua/Wlad) and every couple years someone from England on here will make a thread about Anthony Joshua, and nobody in North America will remember him. He’s a trivia question, the guy who won a phony gold medal off two hometown decisions so bad that the olympics are questioning allowing boxing to continue,


The world moves on, the heavyweight division moves on. Nothing changes.

[Redgloveman]

that's actually the opposite of what is happening.

joshua (or hearn to be accurate) are lowballing anyone who is a threat or not under matchroom contract. fury and wilder in particular have just been insulted by the offers received.

miller isnt ******. he knows he is the fight hearn wants for joshua and that he is backed into a corner. so he is trying to cash in big. whole reason he signed with hearn was likely predicting this very situation.

hearn not wanting to risk joshua losing and wanting to keep all the money in-house.

I don’t understand this narrative. It made perfect sense before, but 60/40 to the A-side is not a lowball whichever way you look at it

The offer to Whyte is the only offer you could really call a lowball and even then it’s hardly an insulting offer.

Miller hasn’t complained about the offer being low.

So that leaves one potential low-ball offer.

[Jack_sh*t]

AJ wants bested Fury many years ago in sparring even Fury admitted it...Fury too don’t want AJ’s smoke!

*Once

Whilst AJ has better fundamentals than Wilder, he’s textbook. He backs up in straight lines and his defence is suspect. Fury went to Vlad’s backyard & gave him a boxing lesson, whilst AJ struggled with him despite he was 2-years-older & rusty.

Fury lost 140+lbs in a year coming off a coke binge and still handled Wilder. Imagine how much better he could be in another year if he stays on track. He is the most gifted HW by far in this era. Before you start bleating about power, know that just because Fury chooses to utilise his superior movement, doesn’t mean he hasn’t got power. Rather he rarely plants his feet to throw against an opponent he knows is dangerous. In addition, I believe he has the best chin of the 3. I’m not convinced AJ could recover if Wilder landed those shots he hit Fury with in the 12th, especially the left hook on the way down. To recover the way he did and finish the round having wobbled Wilder, was incredible.

Wilder V AJ will probably be decided by who lands the big one first, or if neither, by who’s stamina is better. I get that your latent h0m0-******ism is aroused by AJ’s physique, but those muscles burn oxygen at a rate of knots. Wilder has shown that, despite his poor technique, he carries that bomb right to the final bell & cannot be discounted.

Hopefully we get to see them all fight each other in the next year!

[JWHardin]

Anything Hearn offers Miller is a good offer, since he doesn't deserve the fight. Hearn wants to keep the fight in house so he makes more money. British Bob they call him.

He is basically offering Miller the fight so Whyte takes what they offered him. 50-50 chance I guess.

And finally, of course there is no mention of Ortiz, who is better than both Miller and Whyte, and a real threat to AJ.