Comments Thread For: Espinoza: Wilder-Fury II Was Close, Not Best Time For New Deal

[Ake-Dawg]

Whatever!! If I'm Wilder at this point I would be more interested in signing a lucrative contract like Fury and AJ. I mean seriously those guys are getting big money I'd be looking at Haymon and Finkel like "So when are yall going to sign me to a $80 million contract wtf??!!" And I'd say it exactly like that lol

I see what you're saying, and many believe that the Fury contract helps Wilder's future Showtime/PBC purses. If that $100M was guaranteed, he should be in Bristol, CT right now negotiating his equivalent deal today. Unfortunately its not.

[gabossboy]

Fury got stretched. He seen the replay. He knows the fight was over and. The ref allowed him to steal additional time to recover when he should have been counted out. Plain and simple, he doesn’t want any smoke.

[Digital Mouth]

Excuse me Mr Espinoza but if someone offered you 80 MILLION I'm sure you would have done the same

[Batfink]

Its ironic he mentions "business people" getting in the way of fights, when he himself is one of these people.

Spot on - money makes the world go round and he just lost out on a huge pay packet however he is right it’s incumbant on the fighters to make things happen.

[AdonisCreed]

Excuse me Mr Espinoza but if someone offered you 80 MILLION I'm sure you would have done the same

Right!! Nobody in their right mind turns down $80 million!! I can't be too mad at that.

[AdonisCreed]

I see what you're saying, and many believe that the Fury contract helps Wilder's future Showtime/PBC purses. If that $100M was guaranteed, he should be in Bristol, CT right now negotiating his equivalent deal today. Unfortunately its not.

Exactly right!

[filup79]

Right!! Nobody in their right mind turns down $80 million!! I can't be too mad at that.

Didn't AJ turn down a guaranteed 80 million + for 2 fights with Wilder?

[5000boxing]

what a dumb argument. Wilder got schooled for 11.5 rounds and then Fury took that KD like a champ, got back up and went back to schooling. All of that happened after god knows how much time on ******* and alcohol and 2 fights with uber drivers.

Sooo.. If Wilder went to UK.. fought like Fury.. and get knocked down twice.. it would be a draw? And americans would say robbery?.. an then if Wilder backed out of the rematch.. we would think Wilder won the first fight? Get the *** outta here.. Fury Lost.. an was almost dead in the 12rd. Lmao..

[filup79]

Spot on - money makes the world go round and he just lost out on a huge pay packet however he is right it’s incumbant on the fighters to make things happen.

Espinoza isn't asking fighters to sign 2 or 3 fight deals in order to make the fight happen with any of the PBC fighters. They offered Fury a Wilder fight without him giving Showtime or PBC any guaranteed options of his future fights. Espn, GB and DAZN want you to sign a multiple fight deal to fight their fighters, so who really is making it hard to make fights?

[lolpz]

Pretty sure going say Krusher/Stevenson even though hbo had chance to match offer to Stevenson and refused to not to mention purse bids Kathy fought to get only to pull out when hbo wasn’t going back her in it

If Duva won the purse bid, the fight would have happened on HBO.

But she pulled out of it when a deal couldn't be reached. If Stevenson's backers were willing to go to a bid, they were willing to potentionally lose it.

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