Comments Thread For: Joshua: Ortiz Will Be Quicker To Fight Me Than Wilder Would

[johnnycontrolet]

Dazn has hardly any viewers therefore AJ‘s awareness level won‘t rise much with his first fight outside UK.

[NaijaD]

Wilder fight in September is getting more attention than AJ fight this weekend

Even AJ is not interested in his own fight smh

Hopefully that translates into FOX or Showtime or whoever broadcasting the fight actually making a profit on Wilder’s fight. Fingers crossed.

[Zelda]

Just out of curiosity, is it possible Fury will be fighting Ortiz later? Would make for a good story that all others are willing to fight each other but Hearn cannot get deals done.

I think this is a real possibility. But with Fury, you have one thing today and the next tomorrow so who knows.

[OldTerry]

Of course Ortiz would fight Joshua in a heart beat, and he is very happy to fight Wilder again. Win or loss against either, Ortiz makes several million in each fight and secures a modestly wealthy rest of his life. Wilder's financial future is already secure (unless he squanders it). No where near as wealthy as AJ but very comfortable all the same. The fight between AJ and Wilder is icing on the cake for both of them money wise. The real reason their fight needs to happen is for the fans of boxing. When and if it happens it will settle a lot of questions between them and between their fans as to who deserves to be the champ.

[uppercut510]

bro u have a fight Saturday!!!!!!!!!!!

[Andre_parker1]

Al haymon and shelly finkel knows better that the bombsquad facade ends as soon as wilder signs on the dotted line

[hitking]

I agree with AJ that win or lose in the Wilder rematch, Ortiz will be more eager to fight him than Deontay will. I made a post about it yesterday in response to the idiotic rhetoric that Ortiz is ducking AJ. It actually makes more business sense for him to rematch Wilder over an AJ fight.

But I disagree with AJ that beating Wilder for whatever belt Deontay is holding(sorry, I don’t really keep up with the belt nonsense) will make him undisputed champ. As long as Tyson Fury keeps winning, someone is gonna have to beat him to become the true, unquestioned heavyweight champion one the world. I don’t care if AJ or anyone else has 100 trinkets. And since the Wilder thing isn’t happening this year. AJ should turn his attention to trying to get a 2019 Fury fight to try and knock that piece of the “undisputed” pie off.

[Bobby Shaw]

Joshua shouldn't even be talking or thinking about Wilder. We have seen too many fighters getting humbled the moment they took their eye off the opponent.

[Roberto Vasquez]

Just out of curiosity, is it possible Fury will be fighting Ortiz later? Would make for a good story that all others are willing to fight each other but Hearn cannot get deals done.

I think this is a real possibility. But with Fury, you have one thing today and the next tomorrow so who knows.

Who cares about all this political nonsense - you only have to look at Fury and Wilder's records to see they rarely step-up and face top-level opponents. Joshua is a novice compared to them and his record is way better. Stop hating on Joshua and put pressure on Fury and Wilder to take the AJ fight.

Also we can see Ortiz, Fury and Wilder ducking the Whyte fight. Whyte is ranked number 3 in the Ring magazine rankings.

[Zelda]

Who cares about all this political nonsense - you only have to look at Fury and Wilder's records to see they rarely step-up and face top-level opponents. Joshua is a novice compared to them and his record is way better. Stop hating on Joshua and put pressure on Fury and Wilder to take the AJ fight.

Also we can see Ortiz, Fury and Wilder ducking the Whyte fight. Whyte is ranked number 3 in the Ring magazine rankings.

We live in a practical world, not an ideal one. I comment on how I see things happening rather than fantasizing ideal situations. From a practical POV, Whyte is a "high risk, low reward" fighter. Add on top of that he is associated with Eddie Hearn. Even if we are to believe Wilder and Fury do not want him, even AJ does not want to fight him.

Practically for him in this situation, he will either have to get a low reward fight with one of the top 3 by sacrificing the present in the hope of winning and then cashing in later on. Or, wait till he gets mandatory in one of the sanctioning bodies and take his chances there. For that too, he will have to make the relevant fights not the most lucrative ones. If it doesn't work for Wilder, take Joshua instead or vice versa.