Comments Thread For: Anthony Joshua Frustrated With Inability To Land Top Names

[Sid-Knee]

By win 22, Cassius Marcellus Clay (then known) had defeated Sonny Liston twice, with wins over Floyd Patterson, Archie Moore, and rough contenders like Doug Jones and “Enry” Cooper. While never winning more than 11 fights, former world champion James J. Corbett has wins over Jake Kilrain and “The Boston Strong Boy” John L. Sullivan. At 21 wins, Evander Holyfield has already defeated 2 former world heavyweight champions in Michael Dokes (in one of the greatest heavyweight fights I have ever seen) and Pinklon Thomas, as well as unified the Cruiswrweight division with wins over Ossie Ocasio, Dwight Muhammad Qawi (twice, and in the greatest cruiserweight fight ever in the first), and Carlos DeLeon.

Ali only has the first win over Liston as credible. The others weren't world class or were shot, so meant absolutely nothing. The second Liston fight was dodgy. He took a dive because the nation of Islam had a word in his ear.

Kilrain? Is this some kind of joke or something? Sullivan had been out of the ring nearly 5 years by the time he lost to Corbett. 34 was old back then as well.

I'm talking Heavyweight so Holyfield's work at Cruiser doesn't count. If you want to call Thomas and Dokes good wins, then be my guest. But it still isn't as good as AJ's resume. None of them are.

[Sid-Knee]

I'm gonna get a UK nerd to come beat u up in front of your poodle while you train in your leotards. Something tells me you look like judge judy with a belly like benny hill trying your best to get into shape to look like Joshua...

Your hero Joshua has to realize its not about him and when he wants to sew things up....Yeah, team hearn should be complimented for the commercial success of their guy, but the waffling & posturing concerning their gold mine is see thru. And none of these credible heavies are gonna wait around for team-arrogance to make up their minds (when initially a simple 60/40 split couldve more than likely sufficed - if offered to team-wilder) when taking a page from their "commercial" success is clearer now....and possible to duplicate to some degree...

Theres no fear involved, its all busines now....not saying I'm a fan of all the business crap, its just that team-Joshua has set off that business mindset with a vengeance.....now everybody wants to stack paper with some lesser fights....its understandable doe...

Well you can't send an American to beat me up, they'll be scared to find out it's a Brit you want beating up. Haha.

So nothing on what Finkle said about having the fight in 2020? Nothing on Deontay saying he won't fight even if Hearn offers 50/50? Yeah, Deontay is a straight coward and his fans are as pathetic and deranged as he is.

What are you talking about? Hearn is offering 40% to both Fury and Wilder. Wilder turned it down remember? Jeez, it's like talking to someone from a mental asylum with you guys.

AJ generates his money though. The others don't come close to doing so. The biggest fight for Wilder and Fury outside of AJ is each other. They only went home with 7 Mill each. Even if you combined their money, AJ still takes home more than that. He's being paid 35 Mill for this fight coming up. If they both brought big money to the table, AJ would have no problem splitting it down the middle. But they don't. So asking for 50/50 is a coward duck move.

[BOXING-SCRIBE]

So, $120,000,000.00 to a guy who is fighting in empty houses for a couple mill at best = lowball.

So....$7 mill to Ortiz, who got non-lowballed by Wilder and co to the tune of .5 mill?

Nice try troll.

Your hero is risking his imaginary belt against a guy ranked what..? 97th in the world? Yeah ok.

Lol. Diluted Brits.
He holds no belts..beat Wilder and beat Klit next is Aj

Ortiz earned his pay after Wilder.

[sportbuddha]

Ortiz was paid 500K to fight Wilder, not 4 Mill. Where you got that from I don't know.

I was actually being super conservative as double pay is pretty shameful to turn down, even more is straight up cowardice.

[Fabes88]

Lol. Diluted Brits.
He holds no belts..beat Wilder and beat Klit next is Aj

Ortiz earned his pay after Wilder.

If he earned his pay after wilder he should be making more right. So since the wilder fight he’s been making career high paydays then? Or do you just expect him to be a beneficiary of the Anthony Joshua charitable foundation you all think Aj runs

[Tecnoworld]

I'm also frustrated with inability to buy a new Ferrari for 1k $. Too bad.

[JakeTheBoxer]

It is very simple, AJ is top dog in division, everybody that faces him wants as big payday as possible. And I think AJ beats Wilder easily, only Fury would have some chance.

[Bonduu]

He low balled Ortiz
.8mil..you might be the type of guy that looks up and down before crossing the street.

8m low ball offer for someone who has never made more than 500k? Don’t be a dumbass!

[NoConcoms]

The only reason I can think of for this, is because he's scared he'll lose to one of these guys, and get exposed.

I mean, why else would you be upset for getting upwards of $30Million USD to fight the likes of Joseph Parker?

He should just keep his mouth shut, and take the easy paydays. He'll easily make $10million USD for this fight against freakin' Andy Ruiz for crying out loud!

[MEXfistology]

C'mon Anthony, you know you have a wayyyyyy better record than Deontay Wilder, you've fought Oscar molina who almost knocked out Wilder, you've fought Alexander povetkin on peds, youve fought Carlos takam a good ass fighter, you've fought Joseph Parker a good fighter, look at Wilder's record, he's fought 40 guys and only 2 guys were good, he basically got knocked out by Luis Ortiz and got extra time by the referee to recover , illegally, he lost to Tyson fury , Tyson won 10 out of 12 rounds