Comments Thread For: Joshua: Deontay Wilder Unification Should Happen in UK

[Angeljuice]

What happened to the Congo? AJ doing slight of hand in Saudi Arabia. while Fury and Wilder are headlining in Vegas. There isn't anyplace better. AJ is just a party ******, has to have his home cooking. Where's me slippers? I would defeat you if ye weren't so far away.

Vegas is a terrible idea. Wembley or the O2 will have far more people and a far better atmosphere. 90,000 cheering fans or 15,000 cynical Americans who would rather be watching fat dancers pretend to wrestle.

The UK is the new home of heavyweight boxing, its by far the most exciting place for these huge fights. Boxing is almost dead in the US, it is strong and thriving in the UK.

I really don't see a single reason for putting the fight on in the states, other than saving face and harking back to the old days.

[thabanga510]

Lol man nothing should happen in the UK.

[DaNeutral.]

It's not about the money with Deontay Wilder and never has. Anytime a man is willing to accept all of his opponents terms, conditions and demands like: Flat fee, no guarantee and fighting on foreign soil. Also, when a man is offered more $100mil + to fight, then he tells you to go to Hell. It's not about money anymore. It's more about the principle and ethics of it all. Wilder has been proven to be a man of very strong character and conviction. If he told Eddie Hearn to go to Hell once. Then chances are he is going to tell him to go to Hell again. It doesn't matter how much money Eddie Hearn, Matchroom and DAZN is offering him.

That sounds like a duck to me. Sounds like his Ego has gone in to hyper drive. Also sounds like he cant accept B side status in a sport that works heavily off A side B side at the top level. Wilder has flexed his A side muscle in all his fights. If he cant handle being a B side then he is being ridiculous and the blame is on him and that means he is pricing and talking himself out of taking very good offers to fight Joshua for undisputed.

[Angeljuice]

I am over the UK stadium fights, they are boring.

Anthony Joshua should go to america, and finish off what he stated over there etc

Boring? They have an atmosphere and excitement you could only dream of having in the States. America is a boxing backwater nowadays (tumbleweed rolls past).

[DaNeutral.]

Lol man nothing should happen in the UK.

Cool story, could do with being a bit deeper in content though you have basically used a few words when none would of done just as well.

[MDPopescu]

It's not about the money with Deontay Wilder and never has. (...)

... I see: it's only about the sheer poetry of the "Everlasting Being"... It's Buddha... Laozi... the pure Dao... OK... OK...

[Angeljuice]

Have it Mexico @ Aztec Stadium for an even playing field w/ Canelo & Ruiz on the card ahw $h1t Don isn't boxing's main promoter no more

Mexico or Syria or any other third world country at war with itself?

[PRINCEKOOL]

Boring? They have an atmosphere and excitement you could only dream of having in the States. America is a boxing backwater nowadays (tumbleweed rolls past).

They can be boring, boxing has never translated well to stadium fights 'As a spectator sport, arena's in some ways can be better'

Anthony Joshua should finish what he started in america etc

[Michael1437]

I don't understand why any of this is relevant to make a fight, this is the BS of boxing these days, who generates more money or sells more PPV's, just make the fight happen to see who is better.

[N/A]

wilder is not a ppv star

Here is a list of just some of the PPVs he out performed in his very first PPV outing:

July 23, 2016 Terence Crawford vs. Viktor Postol
Aug 12, 2006 Hasim Rahman vs. Oleg Maskaev II
Apr 15, 1985 Marvin Hagler vs. Thomas Hearns
Feb 22, 2003 Mike Tyson vs. Clifford Etienne
Dec 11, 2004 Vitali Klitschko vs. Danny Williams
May 6, 2006 Manny Pacquiao vs. Óscar Larios
Sep 9, 2000 Roy Jones Jr. vs. Eric Harding
Jun 17, 2017 Andre Ward vs. Sergey Kovalev II
Apr 6, 1987 Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Marvin Hagler
Oct 4, 2003 James Toney vs. Evander Holyfield
Apr 14, 2007 Manny Pacquiao vs Jorge Solís
Apr 3, 2010 Bernard Hopkins vs. Roy Jones Jr. II
Oct 17, 2015 Gennady Golovkin vs. David Lemieux
Apr 20, 2019 Terence Crawford vs. Amir Khan Crawford
Jun 20, 1980 Roberto Durán vs. Sugar Ray Leonard
Nov 19, 2016 Sergey Kovalev vs. Andre Ward
Mar 18, 2017 Gennady Golovkin vs. Daniel Jacobs
Mar 3, 2001 Evander Holyfield vs. John Ruiz II
Oct 18, 1991 Ray Mercer vs. Tommy Morrison Mercer
Jun 28, 2008 David Díaz vs. Manny Pacquiao
Nov 8, 2008 Joe Calzaghe vs. Roy Jones Jr.
Jun 11, 2005 Mike Tyson vs. Kevin McBride
Nov 18, 1994 James Toney vs. Roy Jones Jr.
Oct 4, 1997 Lennox Lewis vs. Andrew Golota
Jul 12, 2014 Canelo Álvarez vs. Erislandy Lara
Sep 17, 2016 Canelo Álvarez vs. Liam Smith
Nov 5, 2016 Manny Pacquiao vs. Jessie Vargas
Nov 8, 2003 Antonio Tarver vs. Roy Jones Jr.
Apr 7, 2001 Naseem Hamed vs. Marco Antonio Barrera
Jun 7, 2014 Miguel Cotto vs. Sergio Martínez Cotto

and ppv is dead in the US...are you that ****** you still don’t see it.

Thank you for your uneducated, inexperienced, amateur opinion.

This is the healthiest the US PPV market has been in many years. Fox has completely reinvigorated PPV in this market. Using all of its affiliates to push the PPVs hard, as well as FS1 and FS2.

Fox's PPV debut, Spence vs. Garcia, was a massive success. 375,000 buys for two guys who had never headlined a PPV before. 500,000 buys for Pacquiao vs. Thurman, one of whom had never headlined a PPV before. 350,000 buys for Spence vs. Porter, one of whom had never headlined a PPV before. 275,000 buys Wilder vs. Ortiz II, one of whom had never headlined a PPV before.