Wilder smiles: "50/50 or no AJ fight, belts not important"

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No we don't know if Wilder would accept it.

And why would Joshua accept it, when he's worth more than 50%?

Wilder has never pulled out of an ordered fight. Not when it meant having to go to Russia. Not when it meant having to give Fury an immediate rematch.

If the fight was allowed to go to purse bid, Wilder would honor the bid. If Joshua wanted a purse bid, he would have asked to be WBC diamond champion by now. He hasn't done so because he wouldn't want a 50/50 split. That's why it's laughable when he claims he might ask the WBC to order the fight. We all know Joshua wouldn't honor a 50/50 purse bid. So why even bring it up? To fool his fans. That's why.

[LacedUp]

Wilder has never pulled out of an ordered fight. Not when it meant having to go to Russia. Not when it meant having to give Fury an immediate rematch.

If the fight was allowed to go to purse bid, Wilder would honor the bid. If Joshua wanted a purse bid, he would have asked to be WBC diamond champion by now. He hasn't done so because he wouldn't want a 50/50 split. That's why it's laughable when he claims he might ask the WBC to order the fight. We all know Joshua wouldn't honor a 50/50 purse bid. So why even bring it up? To fool his fans. That's why.

You don't know that. he keeps ducking out of every opportunity to fight AJ.

So jury is still out.

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You don't know that. he keeps ducking out of every opportunity to fight AJ.

He accepted 15 flat to fight in the UK on DAZN, but you don't think he'll accept a 50/50 purse bid? You're out of your mind.

[LacedUp]

He accepted 15 flat to fight in the UK on DAZN, but you don't think he'll accept a 50/50 purse bid? You're out of your mind.

He accepted, then ran away and called it slave money..

mmmyeah keep going though.

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He accepted, then ran away and called it slave money..

mmmyeah keep going though.

It was a low ball offer, but he accepted anyway, to call Hearn's bluff. Hearn refused to honor his word about the fight being in 2018 and instead tried to bait and switch Wilder into a fight 10 months away.

So no, that's not running away. That's agreeing to one thing and the other party not holding up their end of the deal.

Once Hearn ****ed over Wilder that bad, you can't blame Wilder for not wanting to deal with him anymore unless it's 50/50.

[Slicc]

It's two undefeated champions. Can't say one of them is ducking because he wants 50/50 to go on to the other fighter's platform.

Wilder generates nowhere near the amount of money Joshua does, and the latter has nearly every major world title. On what planet does Wilder deserve 50% against Joshua? Joshua would have to be a complete ****** to take a 50/50 split with Wilder, and Hearn even worse if he let him.

[Bobby Shaw]

I pray Joshua doesn't accept this robbery, Wilder can't reap where he did not sow. The man wouldn't sell out a telephone booth then thinks he deserves 50%. GTFOH.

[blue_dolphin]

the success from the fury fight gave wilder an ego boost.

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Wilder generates nowhere near the amount of money Joshua does, and the latter has nearly every major world title. On what planet does Wilder deserve 50% against Joshua? Joshua would have to be a complete ****** to take a 50/50 split with Wilder, and Hearn even worse if he let him.

Wilder just generated more PPV revenue than Joshua because Wilder's fight was PPV in both the US and UK, with US PPV being priced 3x higher than UK PPV. So the gap between what Joshua generates and what Wilder generates is starting to close. Remember, 330,000 buys at $75 is the equivalent of 1 million UK PPV buys, and that's not even counting the actual UK PPV buys for Wilder's last fight.

Yes, Joshua has three belts to Wilder's one, but Wilder has the most important belt.

I agree Wilder doesn't deserve 50/50. Yet. But he may get there before long. However, Hearn wants Wilder to come to Joshua's platform. A platform that generates less than PPV. So you can't cry duck when Hearn is insisting that Joshua not only get the lion's share, but that Wilder has to ditch his partner to fight on Joshua's platform. If Hearn wants that, it's gonna cost him 50/50.

[Holler]

No we don't know if Wilder would accept it.

And why would Joshua accept it, when he's worth more than 50%?

How does it make sense to anyone, that the guy who brings all the cash, all the numbers and all the belts should only get 50%

It doesn't.

If the WBC, WBA, IBF and WBO announced tomorrow that they were ordering a mandatory unification with a purse bid scheduled for after the Miller and Breazeale fights, 75/25 split of the purse, we all know Joshua would accept the order and participate in the purse bid.

But what would Wilder do?

It's a better hypothetical, because in the real world there's no way on earth that the WBA, IBF and WBO would put their signatures to a document that equated one WBC title to three belts from the other alphabet bodies. Or to put it another way, WBC=50%, WBA, WBO, IBF = 16.6% each.

Somehow however, despite the clear logic, that scenario doesn't get suggested.