Comments Thread For: Joshua: I'd Hate To Vacate a Belt - I Know I Can Get it Right Back!

[VislorTurlough]

Who cares about belts? That said - Joshua is allowed a gimme fight. Not every defense has to be a top 5 guy.

[OnlytheTruth]

Barry Hearn quote " If Joshua doesn't fight Wilder for ten years but carries on winning then i'll take that" obviously pre Joshua being bounced around the ring by a ordinary but over weight little fighter called Ruiz.The reason the Wilder fight has not taken place is the way Joshua's promoters feel that fight would go and that was then.Imagine their fears right now .......period!

That may well be the case. If you/we agree that Joshua’s promoters say that they don’t want Joshua to face Wilder then the same model has to be used for Finkel’s handling of Wilder.

Finkel publically stated that Wilder wouldn’t fight Klitschko.

Also, if you want the fight (Wilder v Joshua) and offer $50m, fair enough, you want the fight. If Joshua did truly accept and then duck, you have to take it on face value. But to then turn down $120m and then fight Breazeale on a non-PPV event, you should take that on face value as well. Obviously, Wilder or Finkel don’t want it either.

Accept it or not, up to you.

[davefromvancouv]

Joshua is not looking to vacate any of his belts - but he could be forced to drop either the WBO or IBF - if neither mandatory challenger is willing to step aside.

This is 100% false. The author of the article is an idiot. There's a federal injunction barring any of the bodies from stripping a champion due to conflicting mandatories. It's up to the IBF & WBO to decide whose turn it is. Neither can strip Joshua as long as Joshua fights whoever they agree is next. If they can't agree, they still can't strip Joshua as long as he fights the two mandatories back to back.

Do you have a source? And would Joshua be able to file for exemptions from the IBF and WBO mandatories to fight the winner of Wilder-Fury for undisputed, or were they already filed to sanction the Ruiz rematch?

[champion4ever]

Why doesn't Joshua defend both of his belts? What's stopping him? It's not like he got any other thing to do because Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury are going to be fighting each other twice next year in 2020. So don't give up your belts AJ defend them. You've worked too damn hard to get them and then get them back.

[Mammoth]

Joshua is not looking to vacate any of his belts - but he could be forced to drop either the WBO or IBF - if neither mandatory challenger is willing to step aside.

This is 100% false. The author of the article is an idiot. There's a federal injunction barring any of the bodies from stripping a champion due to conflicting mandatories. It's up to the IBF & WBO to decide whose turn it is. Neither can strip Joshua as long as Joshua fights whoever they agree is next. If they can't agree, they still can't strip Joshua as long as he fights the two mandatories back to back.

Thanks for the info........

[CJFRENCH]

Do not put all your eggs in one basket

AJ can and could fight both; but from all the noise i think they are planning on letting the WBO go, but make out not their fault.

Hearn has Usyk, plus Parker, Chisora and Whyte to fight Usyk for the vacant WBO the title will still all be under matchroom.

AJ should easily beat Pulev then can fight Fury or Wilder for a unification but not the WBO. AJ will always be able to go back to the WBO. If Fury Wilder carry on and fight again, then the AJ fight with the new WBO champion will be a bigger fight. Also if the Wilder Fury winner v AJ fight comes off, who ever has the WBO can then have another fight with one of the other Hearn HW's.

AJ will also accept 50% with the Wilder/Fury winner with less belts and if he loses it makes the winner have to work hard to get the other belt via fighting another Hearn HW.

Its as simple as not putting all your eggs in one basket. It could also allow AJ to fight an easy fight after Pulev if no fight with Wilder or Fury materializes.

Its a win win for Hearn and takes pressure off of AJ.

[Jkp]

"as we well know"...? Do we? Putting period at the end of your opinion doesn't immediately make it fact.

Until they fight, its a complete unknown. Joshua 100% has the power to knock both of those guys out. Parker has a decent chin and Usyk hasn't been tested against a real HW yet, so no, we really don't know.

Ruiz was heralded as the best boxer on here when it happened , if he had won he would still be and you guys would be calling him a genius for putting on more weight against a lighter Joshua, but now he’s back to a ordinary boxer bc Joshua won and that’s the actual truth .

Ruiz would be cruiser weight if he wasn't severely obese.

Watching a huge man like AJ run from a short fat blob for 12 rounds, just proves how little boxing ability AJ really has. It was comical to watch.

[Sid-Knee]

Dillian ducked Pulev.. He didn't want to go to Bulgaria! AJ should fight Pulev first.. Because I thinks he deserves a soft touch.. Home fight.. I want him fully rejuvenated when he faces Wilder. Usky can wait.. He can't come up to heavy.. Have one fight.. An demand the champion face him next.. Who in the *** wrote these bs rules??? Like I said.. Wilder is fighting Fury.. AJ should fight pulev.. *** uksy.. He can wait cause unifications ***** mando's if AJ and Wilder want to fight each other next!

Dillian ducked Pulev for a higher ranking fighter in Parker for more money on PPV?

By that logic, every fighter is ducking plenty of fighters then. But no, it's just more of your complete desperation in the fact that your coward boyfriend Donkey ducked Dillian hard so want to smear Dillian like you freaks and weirdo's always do. Sorry, but only Americans and Mexicans go round ducking like crazy. It's not our fault you're a bunch of cowards inside a mental asylum. Maybe ask Santa for some balls and dignity for Christmas. Also ask for some honesty and intelligence too.

[Sid-Knee]

Anyone who thinks Usyk will cause ripples at heavyweight is blank upstairs.

Usyk would pretty much beat everyone not named AJ and Fury. obviously when DDD comes up, he'll be added to the fighters he can't beat. But everyone else? You better believe it. He'd dominate then KO that bum Wilder with ease. Anyone thinking that talentless bum comes even close deserves all the laughter that comes their way.

[Sid-Knee]

Mr softy and his mess over there. Over here we have Wilder vs Fury. 🥊

Wilder is the biggest coward in heavyweight history. That is a fact. All the ducks can be backed up with facts, and not poison and smears like you freaks have done for decades with our fighters.