Comments Thread For: Arum: Very Few People on The Street Know Who Wilder Is

[Nusky]

People in boxing keep regurgitating the same crap. You can say that about every fighter not named Floyd or Pacquiao-boxing isn't on the mainstream radar in America anymore. You can name at least 5 or 6 different sports that are bigger than boxing in the US.

But in the boxing world itself Wilder is a huge name. I mean, why won't all these guys stop talking about him since he's so irrelevant? Why did this old f--- offer him a fight deal if he's a nobody? Why is Dazn reportedly throwing a $50 mil fight deal his way? Why did you scoop Fury(Whitney) into your arms like Costner and get him as far away from a Wilder rematch as possible?

Are there really boxing fans out there dumb enough to believe that Wilder isn't known? Most importantly, will this type of constant lying get a deal done for the super fights we wanna see?

[The plunger man]

Coming from an high profile american as well ...says it all

[steeve steel]

Nobody on the streets knows who Bob Arum is, and yet...

[mrlopez]

Nobody on the streets knows who Bob Arum is, and yet...

U must be young, ignorant, a hater or all 3! It's not the promoter, it's about the fighter AND casuals have no fkn clue who wilder is. ECERYBODY knew Sugar Ray, Hagler JCC, TYSON, ALI etc. Ol Bobfather, who has built up a slew of thee best fighters, is right. Whether you like it or not...

[filup79]

Wilder isn't well known yet did way better PPV numbers (350k) than Arums fighter Crawford (50k)that he has been building up all these years. Crawford/Khan will end up doing Kovalev/Ward PPV numbers.

[Outlaw420]

Lmao we’ll see how Fury works in America where if Fury don’t get knockouts then that ESPN money gonna be looking funny in the light for Fury!

Bob pissed he couldn’t get Wilder and looks like AJ and Wilder on DAZN will freeze out Fury!

They thought they were gonna have the upper hand and it backfired lol. If Wilder gets this deal he really doesn't need Fury.

Posters were on here doing cartwheels saying wilder would get frozen out and go back to 2mil. 50mil for two fights not named AJ, and people swore he should have taken that 12.5mil from hearn for the joshua fight. As a fan, I'm not happy about the second fight on the deal not being AJ though.

[4truth]

I'd say Bob probably doesn't know very many people on the street.

[OgTripleOg]

Lol Wilder is more known than Crawford or Lomachenko. Bob just being bitter when things don't go his way, nothing new.

[steeve steel]

U must be young, ignorant, a hater or all 3! It's not the promoter, it's about the fighter AND casuals have no fkn clue who wilder is. ECERYBODY knew Sugar Ray, Hagler JCC, TYSON, ALI etc. Ol Bobfather, who has built up a slew of thee best fighters, is right. Whether you like it or not...

Casuals have no clue who anybody is! Walk on the street and ask who Jacobs, Kovalev, Davis (not Miles) are, just to name a few names randomly, and you'll be surprised. Or maybe you won't... because you're an idiot and didn't get my post.
And actually, I'm old enough to have see all those fighters fight! ... but not ****** enough not to realize the game has changed... from the days when Howard Cosell was calling fights on Network TV.

[PunchyPotorff]

Not a Bob fan, but really he is right. Of the 3, Wilder is definitely dead last in popularity. Fury and Joshua are way better known. I do want to see all 3 fight each other though. It has to happen.