Comments Thread For: Hearn Sounds Off on Luis Ortiz and His Team Over Joshua Talks

[BoxOfficer]

It's not about saving the show for the good of boxing, it's about keeping a fighter happy.

Kownacki and Ortiz already had the Wilder fight dangled in front of them and so ducked AJ.

What's Al gonna do? Tell Ruiz he can make him $5m against Wilder in 2021 after Ortiz and Kownacki get their shot? There's no guarantees that money would still be there for him.

If Al could of course he would have scuppered Ruiz taking the fight, but he already played all his cards.

Great response. I didn't intend to partake in this tread, although I was hoping someone would chip in what you said. Thumbs up, bro.

[lolasif]

You need to reread that because NO WHERE does his manager say they got 7-8 mil offer.Only his trainer who says "an opportunity like this to make WHATEVER Eddie was offering you grap it".Sounds to me he had not seen offer and had not talked to promoter/manager about it yet.He then go's on to say "but having said that eddie offering it and then putting it in writing are two different things I personally believe we would have seen an upside down contract just to stall and renegotiate they are a lot of things you can do to contract to not make fight happen"Its REAL clear he had not seen contract or even spoke to their manager/promoter.Now you can twist words and just read the parts you like but its still JUST Eddie word which means NOTHING because like all promoters he is a known liar and also has dog in fight.

Ok, so you won't take the trainers word. You won't believe Hearn. You won't believe Ortiz's manager when he said that Ortiz would have had $5m in his bank account after the promoters cut.

How much was offered then? Clearly you must know something the rest of us don't to be so certain.

[JSN006]

Eddie wasnt in such a big hurry to go renegotiate tho. When ortiz and his trainer said they were pissed at their promoter and would take the fight.... andy fuccin ruiz man. Still cant believe it. This can only look bad on aj and hearn. Takin the piss at this point

[JSN006]

Jarrell Miller got $6.5m; if you could name his highest profile fight or the best opponent that he's faced, let the heavens bless you.

If the $6.5m to Miller was legit, Jimenez may have been greedy, why the **** do you start the bid for Luis Ortiz at less than that?

Shorted the offers to Wilder and Fury, played johnny-come-lately on what would've been fair offers after Wilder and Fury moved on, again started with the bull**** offers when Wilder-Fury 2 fell through, shorted the offer to their own guy for the fight that would've saved the Wembley event, paid $6.5m for a New York fight with a heavyweight in Miller who has about as much a profile as "Let's go champ!" Shannon Briggs, and then immediately shorted the offers when Miller pissed hot a bunch of times. Lol.

In deal after deal, regardless of all of the talk from his fans, Joshua can't seem to find the money for the legit fights, yet seems to always come up with the money needed to make less legit fights.

Anthony Joshua is sitting with a US debut that no one really gives a **** about, and no one really still gives a **** about.

NY radio isn't pushing the fight locally, none of the TV networks (ESPN, FS1, maybe the Sky Sports simulcast on NBCSN but that's it), and no one is really excited for the US debut of this supposed superstar.

Luis Ortiz changes that immediately.

Yes, Luis Ortiz was worth more than was on offer, and his camp knew it.

This! Cudnt have said it better meself!!! Andy ruiz prolly got 8mil to start with!

[kafkod]

It's not though; Ortiz could fight whomever he wants this summer, but if the Wilder-Joshua talks fail, Luis Ortiz is the odds on choice to fight Wilder in the second half of the of the year, on PPV.

Options are a beautiful thing

Bwahahaha!

Last time Ortiz fought Wilder he was paid somewhere between $500k and $1million.

But the magic Showtime PPV fairy will come round and pay him $7million+ if he fights Deontay again!

[kafkod]

This! Cudnt have said it better meself!!! Andy ruiz prolly got 8mil to start with!

Nah, he's getting $8billion minimum.

[KP1]

Wilder nut huggers make the old school Pac fanboys look reasonable.

[truefan]

Not only is Luis Ortiz a bigger name but he has a better resume than Miller. The fight was a bit on short notice as well so Ortiz should have gotten at least 50% more than Miller. Not a half million. It is probably the best HW fight outside of Wilder-Joshua or Fury against either Wilder or Joshua. So it is a much bigger fight that is a PPV bout in itself. I think Ortiz maximizes the fight if he waits and wins another fight to setup the big fight with any of the titlists.

[LetOutTheCage]

AJ is the boogeyman of the division, nobody wants to fight the cash cow which is telling...

[that g]

Offers, fights, contracts etc

Ok. surely you can give me one or two specific examples?