Comments Thread For: Wilder Co-Manager Expects New Pressure To Make Joshua Fight

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Jay Deas, the head trainer and co-manager of WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder, is only days away before his boxer makes a mandatory defense against once-beaten challenger Dominic Breazeale. Wilder will collide with Breazeale on Saturday night, in a Showtime televised main event from the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
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[champion4ever]

I would like for those fights to happen too; Fury and Joshua. However, long and drawn out negotiations between the camps and coupled that with the network commitments could make those fights very difficult to make at the current time.

[pillowfists98]

all the pressure is on Wilder's side.

[daggum]

especially after the breazele fight flops. then what? you already arent good enough to do ppv so whats left for them to do if they are crazily demanding 50-50 based on nothing?

[Bobby Deez]

Make it happen

[Idunnoshet]

especially after the breazele fight flops. then what? you already arent good enough to do ppv so whats left for them to do if they are crazily demanding 50-50 based on nothing?

Flops ? The Wilder / Brezeale fight is on PPV ?

[REDEEMER]

Didn't know 120 million offer was known as being pressured to take a fight ? Team Wilder wants more pressure for 200 million is more like it but won't happen as Wilder drops his next fight. What a disaster it's going to look like unseen in sports.

[DaNeutral.]

Pressure? The pressure is on team wilder, they are the ones that are seen as the side holding this fight up no matter how hard the wilder fans want to try deny it.

You turn down 100 million cuz it's not enough, showtime PPV makes more but then you seem to promise a number of pbc fighters a Wilder fight and make no counter offer to Joshua. Pressure is already on and it's on them.

[Eff Pandas]

I agree with Jay.

I think Skipper & DAZN will make a 2nd play at signing Wilder over the summer. I hope no one is jumping on any fight too quick next. Lets take a month to breath & see what offers come in.

I think its also possible Joshua could could bolt from DAZN for a fight.

Idk if DAZN continues to have matching rights after this fight or not, but I know with Joshua still being a relative unknown in the US it could be worth it for DAZN to let Joshua go for a fight & beat Wilder, assuming he does, & comeback to their platform a bigger name.

So yea I could see this fight end up going down at the end of the year. I feel like its still not going to happen til 2020 doe. Or thats the more likely outcome anyway.

Joshua's debut with Big Baby was gonna make a bigger splash than I think this Ruiz fight will. I think they are gonna need a 2nd US fight to fully make Joshua vs Wilder a big enough thing in the US. And I think right now as things lie it seems like the fight is more likely to happen in the US then the UK finally. Wasn't thinking that til recently, but I think DAZN is pulling some strings behind the scenes cuz Joshua in the UK don't mean sh^t to DAZN. Joshua in the US & being as big as he could potentially be in the US is a huge thing for DAZN if it happens. And I think DAZN is down for paying Joshua more than Sky is so that'll work out the situation on its own from there.

[daggum]

Flops ? The Wilder / Brezeale fight is on PPV ?

no but they scaled the arena down from 19k to 13k and tickets seem to be readily available. im sure it will do a million views on showtime or whatever which is fine but does that really prove anything?