Why waste the meeting?
Joshua was content to fight in the UK for the rest of his run (whiffing or Wilder, Fury, and Whyte, being without a viable opponent for Wembley, is likely the only reason he's even making the trip over), Joshua was apparently working on his own shadow deal with DAZN (sound familiar), and Joshua's reaction made it pretty darn clear that he never expected the $50m to actually turn up.
Why give Hearn the theater when it's clear that he has no actual plan to negotiate in good faith? So he can go back to his British press and say "Hey, we tried. Now that that didn't work, here's the fight we were looking to make anyway"?
Joshua was content to fight in the UK for the rest of his run (whiffing or Wilder, Fury, and Whyte, being without a viable opponent for Wembley, is likely the only reason he's even making the trip over), Joshua was apparently working on his own shadow deal with DAZN (sound familiar), and Joshua's reaction made it pretty darn clear that he never expected the $50m to actually turn up.
Why give Hearn the theater when it's clear that he has no actual plan to negotiate in good faith? So he can go back to his British press and say "Hey, we tried. Now that that didn't work, here's the fight we were looking to make anyway"?

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