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

[daggum]

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.

if their names were pac and floyd it would make that but we saw wilder is not a ppv draw. wilder would need joshuas popularity to explode to hit millions of ppv buys but then wilder wouldnt get 50-50 so its nonsense

[Bobby Deez]

Hearn is scared.

[Lorddgoodness]

Give honor to whom it's due.

To make the fight happen,A side must be respected as it's always been done in boxing match, tell team Wilder to face the reality and show some humility,and stand up to fight one real fight in his career by fighting Aj,as he couldn't even finish out of fashion fury...

[scarybodyshot]

They would both make a life changing amount of money, their grandkids, grandkids, grandkids would be set for life.

The worry is if the fight isn't exciting or competitive there wouldn't be massive interest in a rematch. (appreciate that both would have a rematch clause so it would happen anyway)... bottom line, take the $100m + you're being offered!

[DaBeastO]

wilder is too chickrnshiiet! no fight will happen. wilder is scare to death of joshua.

[Redgloveman]

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?

There’s a point which not many people are picking up on.

Wilder and his team were adamant on 50/50 or no fight right up until the point that Hearn said that they might actually get it.

Once Hearn came out and said that Wilder suddenly changed his tune and announced that he wouldn’t even fight AJ for 50/50 because he has “plans” (seemingly to fight Kownacki and Ortiz and maybe Fury again - rather than trying to unify)

It was never about 50/50; they were trying to price themselves out. They just don’t want that fight, period.

[KP1]

The pressure was on Hearn/Joshua but they responded by Hearn staying the **** out of the 100m Dazn offer, removing the concept of lowballing and Hearn being to blame, which team Wilder refused.

Pressure back on them at the moment.

[kafkod]

Hearn and AJ are "begging" for the fight already, so the pressure would be on team Wilder, not them.

[Redgloveman]

Already feeling that pressure.

Their excuses are running out

[Idunnoshet]

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?

If it does over a million views on Showtime it's a stretch to call it a Flop .
Are you from the U.K ?
I ask because the boxing landscape is different in the U.S .
Boxing seems to be mainstream in the U.K while in the U.S it's still trying to get back on it's feet .
The fact that tickets are Readily available ( as you said ) is nothing new here . Most tickets sell the day of the fight .