Comments Thread For: Joshua: Ortiz Turning Down Fight Goes Against What I Stand For

[Oshio]

casuals do not care about ortiz. its why he always fights on undercards. they want to see joshua and the opponent really doesnt matter unless its a fury/wilder type. anyone else and they are just tuning in to see joshua. he was offered 14 times more than he has ever made. he blew it

Ortiz is a butterfly that thinks himself a bird. I am not sure he was confident that he would beat Joshua. He had the opportunity to contend for 4 belts plus 7m and he turned it down. Who does that?

[Noelanthony]

“I don’t know if they were trying to hold us to ransom, they wanted more out of the deal, but they turned down the offer for reasons I don’t know."

PAY King Kong! You want a last minute notice then PAY the man! You dudes made a "lucrative offer" for yourselves not Team Ortiz.

Pay him how much exactly?? Will $500,000 do it ?

Ortiz is an old man and a black man furthermore. He is not born with a silver spoon in his mouth . It is very rare for us to be awarded millions just to see us laying on our back. His daughter should cut as many onions as she can and slap Ortiz across his face in the hope a thumb with onion residue goes in his eye.Him declining the offer is child cruelty right there

[Noelanthony]

Ortiz is a butterfly that thinks himself a bird. I am not sure he was confident that he would beat Joshua. He had the opportunity to contend for 4 belts plus 7m and he turned it down. Who does that?

A fat pigeon on roids

[Jkp]

Suddenly AJ wants to fight ortiz, but won't let him have a full training champ.

[Jkp]

AJ story about fighting the great Charles Martin and buying the world title off him was a treat to read.

[Noelanthony]

Suddenly AJ wants to fight ortiz, but won't let him have a full training champ.

I was thinking the same thing he could have easily pushed the fight back to June 15th to incorporate old man Ortiz. I think they gave him little time to train because they were scared.

[Noelanthony]

AJ story about fighting the great Charles Martin and buying the world title off him was a treat to read.

How about the story about Parker and Klitschko, was that a treat to read too? You are slowly becoming a fan I see

[Jkp]

How about the story about Parker and Klitschko, was that a treat to read too? You are slowly becoming a fan I see

What are you on about? He never mentioned those fights. Read the article

[Noelanthony]

Ortiz did not take the fight because he is on the juice. Who is that dumb to reject millions in a winnable fight. Manger took responsibility to protect Ortiz braves

He declined the fight because he is not on juice? Either way you look at it he is ****** with a capital S. You have to be a family member or his concubine if you are trying to justify his ******ity

[Cool Scant]

You’re incorrectly including the Breazeale fight in that calculation which throws your numbers off. It’s actually $50m per fight with AJ guaranteed EVEN IF Wilder were to get knocked out in the first 10 seconds of the fight. Plus with the additional sweetener that he gets $20m to fight a guy he’s going to be fighting anyway (on free to air tv)

The 50/50 you mention gives no guarantee as to the rematch split unless you want to build those terms in as well and make this hypothetical deal even more favourable.

Personally I’m not of the view that Wilder really deserves 50/50 in the first place given that he’s only ever been in one PPV event which didn’t sell particularly well.

Wilder turned down a guaranteed $120 million dollars. Let that sink in.

Your info is grossly off! DAZN offered wilder $100M for 3 fights and $120M for 4 fights. Both offers were BullS#it flat fees! So wilder would make $33M or $30M per fight depending on which offer he accepted.
Wilder offered aj exactly what he asked for: $50M and a 50/50 split (no bulls#it flat fees) and AJ was guaranteed $30M for the rematch. If you cannot see that wilder offer was superior to AJs you either have a problem with math or you’re bias.