Comments Thread For: Wilder: Soon I Will Be The Highest Paid Athlete in The World!

[BamBamMurphy]

I agree with Wilder that he is well on the way to being the worlds highest paid athlete......just another 3-4 hundred fights at his current rate and its a job well done !!!

[Boksfan]

Dang the violence is shameful. Weed though? That isn't drugs brother. Thanks for the info, he may not be as good as I thought but could be worse. At least it isn't constant behavior.

No problem, he also hangs out with the wrong crowd, how they jumped Breazeale in the hotel lobby (it's on YouTube) and Saunders in that chicken joint or started a fight in Fury press conference, they are very aggressive people.
I guess we are even, I called you a ******, you called me an idiot, no hard feelings.

[BigStomps]

Lol!!!!!!! Best thing I have ever seen on here and oh so true

I'm willing to bet money you, Jabjab boom and Jason Shaw are all one and the same,....
The same not very bright Al Haymon nuttrider,.... 😆

[sportbuddha]

He’s not the boss of anything, the only boxer that truly managed to break away from the conventional model was Mayweather, everyone else gets paid and has a boss somewhere in the mix. The guy is deluded, but he’s just following a trend of people that get some success in music or sports and then figure they are a CEO or some nonsense. If Wilder couldn’t box I doubt he could even run a chicken shop.

I am glad for him he has wealth, his sick daughter and all because if he didn’t fight it would be a very different life, but talking like he some conglomerate or in-demand brand, what an idiot.

[giant_king]

Boy I know one thing deontay share do piss alot of people off.its kinda funny when you think about it.but like the saying go if you have alot of haters you definitely doing something right lol.but the devil will be defeated.booomb squaaaad!

[champion4ever]

It’s almost like you didn’t read my post. So what you’re saying is Joshua will/should offer up HIS sponsorship money he gets per fight so he doesn’t hurt wilders feelings?

If one has the will then anything is possible. If Joshua wants that Green belt badly enough before years end, then he would make the Wilder fight happen by capitulating to his every demand by giving him anything and everything he wants.

Also, who says that the offer has to come from DAZN anyway? Why can't the 50/50 purse split come from CBS or maybe even Fox? They have the deep pockets to offer them both at least $100mil a piece also by marinating it to 2021.

[BigStomps]

For several reasons:
1. Nationalism, and they want a British company to have control of boxing especially wilder and haymon fighters.

2. Because they believe EVERYTHING Hearn says generally because of #1

3. They simply hate wilder for cultural reasons because he doesn’t look, act, speak the way they want him to.

Well what you said works both ways...
Would you be swinging off Al Haymon's nutts if he wasn't black???
Just cause you love swinging off Al Haymon's nutts cause of his skin color don't mean everyone else has to do it.

[The3]

You can just bring in Canelo #s

[Noelanthony]

People like awwww man I would have taken them deals but have know clue what the fine print of those contacts say lol

It’s team Wilder’s job to inform the public that way both set of fans understand his reasoning. All I’m hearing from their side is that “ we needed to know what the other side( meaning Joshua ) is getting” . If that is their main issue then it can’t be that bad. As you and I both know if Team Wilder thinks anything is untoward social media will be the first to be alerted

[champion4ever]

If it happens then Wilder must be willing to make a compromise. The Joshua deal is the easiest deal to make because DAZN just like Showtime is more flexible. Both Wilder and Joshua are fighting on their respective platforms on a fight by fight basis.

However, the Fury rematch would prove to be more difficult because ESPN and Top Rank has him locked into a long term deal. In addition, they are more static than the other platforms. Bob Arum is an old school shark and he won't offer Wilder or Joshua Tyson Fury unless he can get several options on their future fights.

It's the reason why Eddie Hearn won't allow AJ to fight on ESPN because he doesn't trust Bob. Since Arum has learned that Anthony Joshua is a network free agent also, he just might try to make a power play for Anthony Joshua's services; By signing him into a lucrative long term deal with the ESPN network.