Wilder v Fury - PURSE BID POSTPONED

[_Rexy_]

They didn't just call the purse bid for no reason. What they should have done is call their mandatory (Breazeale) but somehow they called a purse bid, that isn't just the WBC's doing, there is someone from both teams working that one for the WBC.

What they should have done is what they originally did. Sanction the rematch, then shut the **** up and let both sides come to a decision.

Sanctioning just means wilder could fight either fury or Breazele, that’s it. But Mauricio got greedy as he always does and saw the hype the rematch was getting.

[Toffee]

Has the mandatory situation ever been clarified by the WBC?

If they order a rematch and set a purse bid date, presumably this is an ordered fight. Meaning Fury doesn't need to give him a rematch and potential to strip Wilder if he won't fight.

Just very odd by the WBC. Even by their standards.

[EnglishOxide]

Fury has them by the balls.

If he lets it go to purse bid he may know that DAZN will put up a huge bid meaning he gets 40% of a big pie instead of say 45%-50% of a smaller guarantee than Showtime are offering.

[kafkod]

So what? The teams are obviously close to making a deal. No need to be salty that the two best HW's in the division are fighting each other again, you can always watch AJ beat up a fat useless bum.

Wilder?

[kafkod]

Another site, which for some reason won't appear when I link it has confirmed that the Wilder v Fury purse bid has been postponed by a week.

B o x i n g N e w s 2 4 have the story. Check NewsNow or something.

If that site is the only source for this, I'm not taking it seriously. The trolls write the articles at that place.

[MDPopescu]

Another site, which for some reason won't appear when I link it has confirmed that the Wilder v Fury purse bid has been postponed by a week.

B o x i n g N e w s 2 4 have the story. Check NewsNow or something.

... in short: there's a danger that Hearn (DAZN) would bid for the fight... on anoter hand, Fury wants more than 40% in the rematch... I think that's all about it...

[Marchegiano]

Another site, which for some reason won't appear when I link it has confirmed that the Wilder v Fury purse bid has been postponed by a week.

B o x i n g N e w s 2 4 have the story. Check NewsNow or something.

Read at least the first paragraph, I am only trying to help you:

ESB/BN24 is a competing forum. Back in the day this was a bannable offense. I picked up a long ban for it doing the same thing you are now; just sharing an article on a website I had found and did not even know I was linking another forum. They called it poaching. It'd be a damn ****ty thing for you to get banned for bud. I am not sure I would mention their name in full on this site.


I've copied the article you're pointing to:

Jim Dower: In an effort to get more time to finalize the Deontay Wider vs. Tyson Fury rematch, the purse bid for the fight, which was scheduled to take place on Tuesday, has been postponed for one week by the WBC.


The management for Fury and Wilder asked the World Boxing Council to have the purse bid postponed so that they could work on getting the fight deal done.

“We have extended (for) one week the free negotiations, per their request,” WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman said to ESPN.com.


The Wilder vs. Fury II rematch is expected to take place in 2 to 3 months in April or May in either Las Vegas, Nevada or New York.

Wilder’s manager Shelly Finkel is confident that the fight negotiations will get done, and there will be no need for a purse bid. Finkle is upbeat about the direction the negotiations are going in, according to ESPN.

A purse bid would work well for Wilder, as he would get a 60-40 split of the revenue. If the Wilder vs. Fury II fight does go to a purse bid, there’s a chance that Matchroom Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn will bid on the match in hopes of winning it, and then placing the fight on DAZN rather than on FOX or SHOWTIME.

The purse bid was scheduled to take place on Tuesday afternoon at the WBCs headquarters in Mexico City. It’s unclear whether the WBC will grant a second postponement of the purse bid if the two camps are still unable to get the fight negotiated in the seven days that were given. It would obviously be a bad sign if the fight isn’t finalized within that seven-day period.


It’s believed that the 30-year-old former IBF/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Fury (27-0-1, 19 KOs) wants a better deal than what he got the last time he fought Wilder on December 1 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. That fight was scored as a 12 round draw. The scores were 115-111 for Wilder, 114-112 Fury, and 113-113.

READ Wilder says Fury rematch will be announced in 2 weeks
Fury and a lot of boxing fans thought he had done enough to deserve the win. Wilder’s strong surge in the championship rounds was the deciding factor in the judges scoring it as a draw. Wilder knocked Fury down in the 9th and 12th rounds. Although some of Fury’s fans felt both of those rounds should have been scored as even rounds due to Fury fighting well, the judges gave the rounds to Wilder. The fight brought in 325,000 pay-per-view buys on SHOWTIME PPV, which were good numbers.

The WBC ordered the Wilder vs. Fury 2 rematch to take place. Both guys wanted the fight, so it really wasn’t necessary for the WBC to order the rematch.

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Wilder?

Wilder knocks Joshua out.

[Marchegiano]

If that site is the only source for this, I'm not taking it seriously. The trolls write the articles at that place.

They don't have many members beyond trolls....hell we don't either actually

[kafkod]

They don't have many members beyond trolls....hell we don't either actually

True, but at least most of the articles are written by actual journalists here.