Comments Thread For: Hearn on Joshua-Ruiz II: December 14 in Cardiff is Frontrunner

[Ray*]

I don't know how many times Ruiz has said that he's NOT going to the U.K unless Hearn pays him 50 million, which obviously is not going to happen. Yet here's Hearn pushing for the U.K, Stop it already Hearn, Mexico, L.A or New York are your options. You or your boy don't call the shots anymore.

Doesn’t matter what Ruiz says, the contract that he signed as a voluntary challenger would decides that. I find it laughable that some think because he is the champion now that he calls some sort of shots. When he wins the rematch then he calls all the shots, right now he doesn’t am afraid.

Having said that, I don’t get why Team Joshua are running back to the UK. So if they win the rematch they aren’t going to leave the UK again? That’s some mental negative right there.

[Straightener]

Gareth Davies of the telegraph?

Yeh

Guys a bellend

[ShoulderRoll]

If it was in the original contract he signed, not much he can do, unless he wants to get stripped of all the belts and wind up in litigation.

I'm guessing it wasn't in the original contract. Otherwise there wouldn't be negotiations on the venue and Hearn wouldn't be sending him options.

[champion4ever]

LMAO. He was a VOLUNTARY. AJ didn't need to fight him and he begged for the fight by signing his life away.

Let him renegade on the contract, he would've to retire from boxing and give up all the belts, then lose millions, lol. I doubt Ruiz wants to give up on his new lifestyle and extra million, just to be stubborn. He knows better.

Andy Ruiz, Jr doesn't owe Anthony Joshua shit but a rematch; Not the venue which means it's still negotiable. If the two sides cannot agree on a venue then the rematch clause becomes null and void and unenforceable.

What great dereliction of fiduciary duty by Eddie Hearn? Once again he has failed his client AJ. I told you he was dumb. However, you didn't believe me.

How the fuck do you omit something as important as the venue in writing on a rematch clause? Like I said this situation could be dragged on for several months in court before there is ever a resolution

By the time they reach a resolution Andy Ruiz probably would have lost all of the belts by then in defending them against Deontay Wilder in an Undisputed World Heavyweight championship bout.

[Richard Hamilton]

Wonder if Ruiz would drop the belts if he is promised a shot at Wilder.

[Randall Cunning]

I'm guessing it wasn't in the original contract. Otherwise there wouldn't be negotiations on the venue and Hearn wouldn't be sending him options.

There arent any options for Ruiz. Matchroom are deciding between Cardiff and New York. 2 other bids came in that Hearn was asked to explore, likely by Joshua. When they decide where the fight is theyll tell Ruiz

[kidbazooka]

Keep dreaming, lol.

You think AJ is dumb, don't you? The fat Mexican has to do it in the UK winter to show he can win without a fluke hook shot.

Ruiz don’t gotta do ****t in uk that bum Joshua has to bring his Roided ass to America if he wants to redeem himself but even that won’t matter cuz Ruiz will make him quit again he should just stay euro level where it’s safe for those bums

[Biolink]

If they get the ref from the Parker fight Ruiz might as well hand the belts over

[PBR Streetgang]

Why is Hearn still talking like he calls the shots. Ruiz and his camp has said a number of times, Hearn doesn’t call the shots on the venue. He keeps pushing UK like the Cardiff's Principality Stadium where all the advantages would be for Joshua.

Something tells me the rematch probably won’t happen. I don’t believe Ruiz and his camp should agree to fighting in the UK as the current champion unless there is a substantial amount of more money involved than MSG or another US venue. What about Jerry Jones World at Texas stadium? A lot of the Mexican and Hispanic nation would come out to support that fight. If they push the date back to December 21st, that venue is available because the Dallas Cowboys are playing away at Philadelphia on December 22nd.

But I know the UK stadium that Hearn mentioned has a seating capacity of 74,500 and Jerry World seats 65,675. MSG only seats 20,789. I guess that’s the tough part about it. The US stadiums that are in partnership to host boxing events aren’t built with the largest seat capacities in the world. If the US college football stadiums got into the mix of boxing, that would be huge for boxing. Like the Michigan stadium that seats over 110,000, 2nd largest stadium in the world or Penn State the seats the 3rd largest.

For this fight, I think the difference in large capacity US venues and large capacity UK venues is that the UK venues would be full and the US ones would not.

I like Andy and am an American. I do not think the fight can put 60k fans in the seats in the US. Gate revenue is only one part of the picture but it is a part.

[PBR Streetgang]

Wonder if Ruiz would drop the belts if he is promised a shot at Wilder.

Doubtful. Without the belts he loses alot of leverage? And for what, a high risk fight against a fighter that generates less revenue for a fight for only one belt? It's a business and that's one helluva bet on yourself for diminished returns.