Comments Thread For: Arum: Joshua Should Sign With Top Rank, Nobody Has DAZN!

[RoyJonesJrp4pno1]

In 10 years AJ will be out of the sport.

He is spending his prime years building someone else's business from scratch.

Mayweather didn't build anything for anyone other than himself. Every bit of his value went to building his own business. AJ should do the same and stop building Matchroom and DAZN for someone else. Plantation mentality.

DAZN is paying him a 32m guarantee. He is getting paid a boatload of money to help build DAZN's business.

[Scipio2009]

Everyone can see what the Jack move, and Arum is now desperately trying to undercut it.

Wilder fights Breazeale in May, Joshua fights Miller in June, Stephen Espinoza and Adam Smith have talks on a deal, they fight this year, and Tyson Fury is left holding his **** on ESPN+ for the rest of the 5-fight deal.

[Sickmerch1990]

Hurry up and snuff it bob ye bad for the business

[P4Pdunny]

if this is being used, then AJ wont care. How much to KO a fat cheeseburger loving loudmouth?

[hitking]

Floyd Mayweather literally became the highest grossing fighter in boxing history. And one of the highest paid athletes in history by ditching promoters. He paid GBP a flat fee to promote his fights and worked with them on a fight by fight basis. There’s literally ZERO reason for a fighter to sign exclusive deals with any promoter outside of them using the promoter to avoid fights they’d rather not take at that moment.

[Scipio2009]

American heavyweights will go across the pond for the big paydays Wilder is the third best heavyweight and I stated he would fight Fury the second best what sounds like Calzaghe about that.People don’t realize boxing is a sport and a business AJ can fill a huge stadium in Europe more people more money.Wilder couldn’t fill vfw post in his home town.Again from a business standpoint 4- titles to one who’s got more leverage why would you come to the US to fight wilder when you stand a good chance of getting robbed like Fury did.

Anthony Joshua won't see $30m on any fight in the UK, lol. Relish the spectacle of the stadium seats if you want.

Fury got as far a shake as anyone could get (Reis giving him every chance possible to stay in the fight sticking out the most), and was set to see at least $17.5m on the rematch.

Folks need to give up this delusion

[Scipio2009]

Where DAZN trumps all this is guaranteeing all 3 fights. Wilder loses vs Breazeale or the fight after and he looks really foolish

That's the risk; Wilder flattens Joshua to become the undisputed/lineal champion and he looks utterly ******ed fighting the rematch for the same money (with Joshua potentially making more money on his fight-by-fight)

[N/A]

So you reckon he can **** Joshua over for a while and then make good once DAZN has gone?

He's not ****ing Joshua over. He has no fiduciary duty to Joshua. Joshua is the one that agreed to an exclusive promotional agreement. As long as Hearn pays the minimum guarantee, he's not doing anything wrong.

His success is tied to Joshua's.

No. His success is tied to DAZN and keeping Joshua on DAZN is the #1 way to keep DAZN happy. So how can Hearn really be trusted to reasonably consider non-DAZN offers when he has no fiduciary duty to do so?

where are the fighters claiming Eddie has short changed them?

Who said he short changed them? He's paying what he promised. He's not Don King, making you chase him to get what was in the contract. Hearn will pay you what the contract says. Nobody is dis*****g that.

How exactly has Joshua's income not been maximised?

Because there's no way to maximize your income beyond what can be earned on US PPV. That is the end all be all. By making absolutely no attempt to turn Joshua into a US PPV star, it means he's making no attempt to maximize Joshua's income.

[N/A]

Nothing prevents SHO to guarantee fighters higher guarantees than DAZN. Why don't they?

They do. Why do you think every top Showtime star has turned down DAZN?

[Pigeons]

Bob smacks of desperation, he must be under serious pressure from ESPN. I guess with Crawford the only US star in their stable, Tyson Fury and few Eastern European champions you could imagine the big bosses at ESPN aren't happy with their return on investment.

You're talking out of your ass.