Comments Thread For: Espinoza: Wilder Would Be Criticized Less If People Knew Purse

[Redgloveman]

Most weirdos on this site are glad this article came about so they can distract away from their favorite fighter ducking Wilder.

Go on peasants, continue to argue about more **** that shouldn't matter to the fans: a fighters money.

It’s not really about the money.

It’s about Wilder TURNING DOWN the money

i.e. it’s about Wilder ducking the Joshua fight which most people now agree that he did

[Jsmooth9876]

Y’all are dumb. Wilder didn’t turn down AJ. He turned down signing a multi-fight deal with DAZN in order to get AJ.

Didn't he basically just turn down fighting Brazeale on Dazn seeing as the Joshua fight was next up?

That's a piss poor excuse. If ye wanted the fight, the guarantee of 100 million or more was staring him in the face and he turned it down.

And this offer was real, not an email lol.

[SchoolTheseCats]

Showtime are not usually shy about how much they pay fighters on their network. What's different now?

Re the bolded: Wilder's team excluded Eddie Hearn from that meeting. Hearn is AJ's promoter and representative at DAZN. If Wilder wanted to discuss AJ's money as well as his own, he shouldn't have excluded Hearn from the meeting.

This was a meeting to discuss a financial deal between Wilder and DAZN, by-passing Hearn. AJ's money shouldn't even have been brought up.

Dazn would be paying both guys and Hearn was on record saying skipper can be broker to get deal done, knowing how much more they paying the other guy would have be part of talks because that’s letting you know how much they think the fight is worth and wilder wants 50/50 or as close to 50/50 he can get especially if can’t make backend money like Joshua can with his sky sports ppv he gets share of

[greeneye99]

Y’all are dumb. Wilder didn’t turn down AJ. He turned down signing a multi-fight deal with DAZN in order to get AJ.

And what's your point?
Wilder was gonna make $100m
He's never made more than $5m in his life
??
AJ is making $32m fighting BB Miller
How much Wilder gonna make?
Casual fan fa sure

[Bronx2245]

No they are not. And Espinoza didn't say he was loyal to PBC and their affiliates he said he was loyal to Showtime. Wilder is loyal to Haymon and fights where Haymon tells him too has NOTHING to do with any loyalty to Showtime.

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https://www.foxsports.com/other/story/strong-opening-week-for-cbs-turner-with-ncaa-hoops-tourney-032619

[DaNeutral.]

TELL US WHAT IT IS THEN and then we can all shut up. But the last time people from Wilders side hinted about how great a contract was for Wilder but refused to actually tell us some facts the hints all turned out to be way off the mark.

In the Fury fight they tried to make Joshua and Hearn look bad and hinted that Wilder Fury was 50-50, IT WASNT, they hinted that both fighters were getting a rematch clause, NOT TRUE. They tried hinting that Wilder got as much as 18 million for the Fury fight. LIES. And here we are again, Espinoza hinting everything is wonderful but they wont come out and say it. They are fooling nobody but the LDBC idiots on Youtube who will talk about it on their ****ty little videos that only other LDBC folkers listen to.

Showtime are not competing with DAZN. If they were competing with DAZN we would all know EXACTLY what Wilder was getting paid. Dont try taking us for a ride Espinoza you little greasy weasel.

[greeneye99]

You have no idea what you're talking about. Wilder never fought on NBC or CBS. And you think Showtime was interested in paying for the Duhaupas fight, or the Arreola fight, or the Gerald Washington fight? No way. Smart decision. Let another network pay for the mismatches and then keep the good fights on Showtime.

That's not disloyalty, that's smart business decisions.

This guy is right
Its actually You
You my friend have no idea what you're talking about
Wilder is loyal to Al Haymon
That's it
He's not getting even $7m fighting on Showtime
Yet he turned down $20m
Smh

[greeneye99]

“We’re not going to publicize all of the financial arrangements, like other have seen fit to do,” Espinoza said. “Now, if we did, I think he’d probably receive less criticism. But his financial arrangements are his business, and his business alone."

Yet he turned down $100million from DAZN because they wouldn't tell him about AJ's financial arrangements!

Lolololol
Lololol

[Ray*]

You do? What did Floyd's deal? No one knows. All they said is that it was the biggest deal in sports history at the time. THey didn't give any numbers.

The only numbers that came out were commission disclosures and what Floyd said.

Google is your friend. Just type in Mayweather/showtime/6 fights deal.

[Bronx2245]

No they are not. And Espinoza didn't say he was loyal to PBC and their affiliates he said he was loyal to Showtime. Wilder is loyal to Haymon and fights where Haymon tells him too has NOTHING to do with any loyalty to Showtime.

Has Showtime never been linked to Al Haymon? Has at any point in the life of the PBC, has Showtime not been a part? I would say that Haymon is loyal to Showtime wouldn't you? So being loyal to Showtime is synonymous with being loyal to Haymon! I don't see a difference? Haymon and Showtime built Wilder together, and they're staying together!