Any guess why Frank Warren decided to join ESPN, not Showtime?

[Lopez_Boxing]

Fury had a 50/50 contract to rematch Wilder in front of him for a week .
Why would they offer him 50/50 ( which is a Good split ) if they were trying to Duck ?

Some of you guys on here are too quick to accuse fighters of Ducking .
Knowing the facts Before you criticize someone will help you keep from making silly comments.

I'm being sarcastic. What I said isn't reasonable/realistic at all

[Idunnoshet]

I'm being sarcastic. What I said isn't reasonable/realistic at all

Gotcha . My mistake .
But there's some waaay out posters on here with some crazy narratives .

[jglvz256]

yeah haymon and finkel are so mysterious!!!....if you listen to arum! lol

arum acknowledges hes met face to face with haymon and dealt with him....then the next week he pretends like hes never met him and says "I think hes a figment of sam watsons imagination"

WTF

you guys eat the pile of sheet that anyone against a pbc fighter will sell you

Warren also said last week that he has never met or spoken to Haymon and has always had to deal with intermediaries.

“I’ve never, ever spoken or met with him. You can imagine how frustrating that is.

“If he walked in this room I wouldn’t even know who he was.”

[Lopez_Boxing]

Gotcha . My mistake .
But there's some waaay out posters on here with some crazy narratives .

Oh you're right. That's why I said it. As crazy as it sounds people will agree

[Curt Henning]

Warren also said last week that he has never met or spoken to Haymon and has always had to deal with intermediaries.

“I’ve never, ever spoken or met with him. You can imagine how frustrating that is.

“If he walked in this room I wouldn’t even know who he was.”

that's funny....cause im not involved in the sport and I can pick him out of a lineup with ease lol

arum has acknowledged to have spoken with him...then turns around and pretends hes a ghost....but that's not suprising...one day arum told you he wants to wait till the end of the year to make wilder.fury 2 and then the next day is saying hes sending wilder some tremendous offer to make it next lol

[Ray*]

Maybe he doesn’t want Fury playing second fiddle to Wilder?

[jglvz256]

that's funny....cause im not involved in the sport and I can pick him out of a lineup with ease lol

arum has acknowledged to have spoken with him...then turns around and pretends hes a ghost....but that's not suprising...one day arum told you he wants to wait till the end of the year to make wilder.fury 2 and then the next day is saying hes sending wilder some tremendous offer to make it next lol

Alrighty .

[boliodogs]

The safest bet is that wilder told Showtime/pbc to NOT sign fury so he can duck the fight. I don't see Any other reasonable explanation

I disagree. I think Wilder sincerely wants to rematch Fury but Fury doesn't want to risk a rematch with Wilder. Almost everyone thinks Fury won the 1st fight and Fury wants to leave it there rather than risk getting KOed in the rematch. I think the fight Wilder is ducking is a fight with AJ.

[boliodogs]

Maybe ESPN made Fury the best offer.

[KTFOKING]

PBC are linked with ITV in the UK
DAZN is linked with Sky in the UK
ESPN doesnt hurt his relationship with BT

Bingo! ESPN needs dates so they linked up with Warren and would show all his UK cards. A lot of his fights before the ESPN deal would air on SHO.

I don't get how Finkel here is relevant. He wouldn't be a factor if Warren had Fury sign a SHO deal or he just signed a SHO deal for his other fighters.