Comments Thread For: Hearn To Team Wilder: Try To End My F***ing Empire, End Me!

[Toffee]

showtime wants to split the fight and they want half for wilder lol...its simple...theyve made that known

DAZN wants the whole thing because they are shook of flushing money down the drain on AJ

Showtime want half of nothing. They're not making offers. If they wanted to make the fight then they could put up some money to Wilder and Joshua.

DAZN are making offers and obviously can't offer a split broadcast. That's common sense.

[15 Rounds again]

The English are here to help but if a fighter doesn’t want their help get ready for thousands of limey chav trolls trashing them online....no thanks. I think the Americans are fine running their own country without the “empire”

Clearly the boxing empire stateside and the fighters themselves are benefiting from some proper cash paydays. Guys were getting paid like UFC fighters lol.
Competition is healthy dude. I said about a year ago that Hearn and Matchroom would not be made welcome by the old powers that be and that has proven true. Wilder is a piece in a chess game. In that chess game, Hearn has all his pieces in very good positions and Finkel has kne pawn left. He is unashamedly using Wilder but eventually Wilder will lose his belt (hopefully to Breazeale) or will leave Finkel when he realizes it is costing him tens of millions to have that old dinosaur use him as a pain.
Finkel should be playing golf in Florida. He is no match for the smarts and the savvy and the money and the youth that Hearn and his backers bring.

[mapleleaf27]

I can see a Wilder fan girls are out full force today, bums like that ldiot holding the wbc belt hostage, what if he loses against Breazeale now what? Whyte should sue the WBC for turning Wilder into a black ugly puci!

hey man as fans we dont need to read these type of comments, no need to bring up the color of a mans skin in a boxing chat..log off , go somewhere else with your caveman intellect

[BigZ44]

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Finkel just needs to croak so we have a shot at getting this fight

[TexasCowBoy]

Beautifully Written Article....Great Quotes from Hearn and I cant wait to read everybodies comments.....this is gonna be fun

[mapleleaf27]

I would blow AJ on sky sports for $100,000,000.00 and if you say you wouldn’t then you’re lying or very rich already.

hahahahhaa sounds like its right up your alley...money is not everything, people dont need that much...I'm not lying man I would not do that for double that number...I make a nice living, not even 6 digits but money is not the be all end all, in fact there is no price for what you speak of!...not everyone on this site dreams of pipe in their mouth for pay...speak for yourself

[MC Hammer]

They offered to pay Wilder & AJ more than the fights are worth not less. I'm stunned that so many don't seem to have understood this or are claiming that Wilder is some kind of genius for knocking this offer back.

They offered him far, far more than he's worth in terms of the numbers he draws. They do this because they're currently in an acquisition phase where they will pay a premium to break into a mature market. Anyone who thinks this phase will last forever is an idiot.

The smart move for Wilder was to take the 120m and if he beats AJ he's the biggest earner in world boxing until the end of his career. 3 or 4 fights and then he can fight on showtime, fox, wherever he chooses. Someone advising him told him different, so hopefully they've also outlined a path where he makes 200m and becomes undisputed champion.

Whose to say that it's worth less than they are offering? And we don't know what they are offering AJ. It seems to me that they should have made him the offer before Wilder seeing as he is tied to Matchroom and they have that great relationship.

The fact of the matter is AJ would've been negotiating with dazn at a baseline price of 40mil whereas that is set in stone for Wilder. His team knew that and wanted to have a straight up negotiation. AJ is free to fight wherever he wants now, so it's time for Showtime to reach out to him.

[Lemonhead_Jeff]

Showtime want half of nothing. They're not making offers. If they wanted to make the fight then they could put up some money to Wilder and Joshua.

DAZN are making offers and obviously can't offer a split broadcast. That's common sense.

Showtime offers Wilder an established broadcast platform
that has been one of the most successful over the past
decades. DAZN has money to burn, but it's really just a
fledgling streaming service that does not even release their
viewership or subscription numbers. DAZN may not even be
around very long if their gamble does not start paying off.
You can understand why some fighters would jump at a
365 million dollar offer from DAZN, but you also can't blame
other fighters for being reluctant to board a sinking ship.
DAZN may be just like the astounding, unsinkable Titanic,
which also came from the UK, and we all know that the
expensive ship did not stay afloat for very long.

[MC Hammer]

It’s clear they have made no profits. They are absolutely inthe red, so many millions going out and nowhere near that coming in. Obviously they are not making money with gayes outside of the Canelo fight because hearns shows are empty. No one cared about the Joshua fight in the USA, the subscriptions arnt there and won’t be there as long as there’s no required minimal sign up, it’s also been reported there are now commercials....which means they needed revenue. This is the reason they want wilder and willing to spend 9 figures to get him....they want all those folks who bought that ppv, and who tune in 1m+ on showtime.
Obviously dazn is in it for the long haul mindset because there simply isn’t any profit right now. Hearn conned dazn into thinking he could take over all the big names from PBC and that hadn’t happened so far

I guess that's why he's so bitter about Wilder not signing because he needs this fight to keep his standing over there

[JWHardin]

Hearn is haunted by the fact that Joshua and team Hearn ducked Wilder last year, so still doing damage control.

Crying like a spoiled kid. Both comical and sad at the same time. No one cares. Maybe he should see if Luis Ortiz wants a fight? (he should be old enough by now)