Comments Thread For: Fury Announces He Has Signed For Wilder Rematch February 22

[hitking]

Awesome!!! The winner becomes the clear cut, unquestioned HW champion of the world. Haven’t had one of those since Fury went MIA after defeating Wladimir for the legitimate strap.

[Laligalaliga]

Truth is, Fury is lying. Fury/ESPN heard Wilder say earlier this week that after Luis Ortiz, he's free to unify with Andy Ruiz. If that happens, Furys next 2 fights will be Vs bums and have zero buzz. That would make 3 straight unsuccessful fury events which hurt him at the negotiation table. Add in the fact that wilder would be unifying for undisputed Vs Ruiz. If wilder were to become undisputed while at the same time Fury and ESPN are failing to generate buzz/views wilder becomes a overwhelming massive A-side to Fury/espn. ESPN would be insanely pissed at arum for making them invest in a superfight that doesn't reward them enough financially.

Unfortunately, you don't write this boxing scripts.
You wish.

[Mister Wolf]

But they fight on different networks. I was told by the experts on this forum you need at least 1 million buys projected for a cross network PPV.

[MulaKO]

Fury can say what he wants but it’s not official
So maybe Fury trying to get some hype going

[Clubber Pac]

This does not make sense, that less than a 3 week turnaround for camp if Wilder fights in November, does not make sense, Wilder won't fight again until the late Spring.

Fury is full of sh/t, he is just feeling the heat because people are calling out the fact that he ducked the rematch.

[Alan Smithee]

Truth is, Fury is lying. Fury/ESPN heard Wilder say earlier this week that after Luis Ortiz, he's free to unify with Andy Ruiz. If that happens, Furys next 2 fights will be Vs bums and have zero buzz. That would make 3 straight unsuccessful fury events which hurt him at the negotiation table. Add in the fact that wilder would be unifying for undisputed Vs Ruiz. If wilder were to become undisputed while at the same time Fury and ESPN are failing to generate buzz/views wilder becomes a overwhelming massive A-side to Fury/espn. ESPN would be insanely pissed at arum for making them invest in a superfight that doesn't reward them enough financially.

Wilder's team has confirmed both Ortiz and Fury as successive opponents for awhile now. Team member Jay Deas was interviewed on July1st by WBN's (World Boxing News) Phil Jay and also confirmed both opponents.

Ortiz is expected to happen in September or October, with Fury likely to be late February or March.

[Motorcity Cobra]

Then Whyte is no more a WBC mando for WIlder? So WIlder fights Fury after Ortiz rematch. no matches in between?

Wilder's next mandatory isn't due until May. Remember when Wilder told Whyte he wouldn't have to fight him for 2 years? That's why he said that because he has to fight one mandatory a year and Breazeale was next

[moltres.]

feb 22nd. thats far away. wilder by ko.

[Motorcity Cobra]

But they fight on different networks. I was told by the experts on this forum you need at least 1 million buys projected for a cross network PPV.

Arum said that too. He also said he wouldn't do Crawford/Spence until her thought it could do 600k. So people on this forum are repeating what they heard from Arum

[Cobra Curry]

Not saying anyone's lying but I'd have thought that Wilder would wait to see what happens with Ruiz vs Joshua first?