Comments Thread For: Showtime's Espinoza: Wilder-Ortiz PPV 'Deal Didn't Make Sense For Us'

[j.razor]

Who in the hell would pay Ppv for this fight ?

People who aint broke.

[j.razor]

Wilder isn't pay per view without Fury or AJ, so it's good for us . To bad Wilder really isn't that smart , poor guy was told to turn down a guaranteed 100 million .

Funny cuz Aj & Fury aren't PPV without D.Wilder either & he was smart to turn down a deal that wouldn't of got us the fights we want to see....he can control his own career.

[j.razor]

Like Crawford vs Spence or Spence vs Danny or Thurman or maybe Haney vs Tank or Wilder vs Ruiz...you mean fights like that?

The immediate money doesn't stop those fights, its the promoter that doesn't want their fighter to lose to fighters like Errol, Devin & D.Wilder.

[j.razor]

Why aren't any of these "free agents" fighting Crawford or Anthony Joshua?

Cuz your favorite promoter is afraid of his fighters losing....

[j.razor]

Wow Espinoza!
After Wilder publicly declared his loyalty to SHO Time, you go public with your lack of faith in him....
If DAZN makes another offer, Wilder better take it.

No, you dudes seem to be creating a narrative of loyalty. dazn is hurting right now, they said no one getting paid anymore cuz they not doing good work & paying fakes like Pvssy-G too much

[REDEEMER]

Funny cuz Aj & Fury aren't PPV without D.Wilder either & he was smart to turn down a deal that wouldn't of got us the fights we want to see....he can control his own career.

That doesn't even make sense, even Breazeale was PPV for AJ, Wilder couldn't do a PPV and that's why he needed Fury ? Wilder in control of his own career ? Come'on no one is buying that. Ha

[j.razor]

Espinazo got played for a fool.

Apparently not.

[Eff Pandas]

https://twitter.com/danrafaelespn/st...00557370392578

To do the fight Showtime would have to put up a guarantee, but the amount required in Showtime's view would have meant losing money because it was so high and the PPV likely won't do nearly enough to justify said guarantee. It was basic math. Fox obviously has a different view.

Fair play. Wasnt up on all that. Thanks for the link.

I wonder if its too high too high or just too high for what Stevie E reasons is a bad time to show boxing ie during football season.

[filup79]

That doesn't even make sense, even Breazeale was PPV for AJ, Wilder couldn't do a PPV and that's why he needed Fury ? Wilder in control of his own career ? Come'on no one is buying that. Ha

Breazeale might have been PPV in the UK where there PPV standards are low. Could of swore it wasn't PPV in the US. AJ hasn't really drawn big ratings in the US with Showtime, HBO or DAZN. No UK PPV in recent years would have been a PPV in the US.

[BangEM]

That wasn't D.Wilder being disloyal.

He turned down that "100m" cuz he will get more than that in the short run AND have control of his own career. Smart man.

LMAO. Hell yeah, he’ll get more than $100million when Showtime can’t even guarantee him $2m with add ons from PPV and passed on the fight because he isn’t a good investment. So who’s gonna give him $100million?

I guess you don’t know Showtime passed on the fight because they couldn’t guarantee him an amount as meagre as $2million in context of what the other top heavyweights are making. When you’re fighting on PPV - there’s always a guaranteed token, pending what the fight does in box office sales, which are later added to the guaranteed purse split. The joke is on you, lol.