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

[DClefthook]

AJ should do what all his UK brethren did when they want to get the BIGGEST fight on the WORLD'S BIGGEST BOXING STAGE. Lennox, Ricky hatton, Prince Nassim and Amir Khan all came to the US to get the PPV bag! Who cares about selling 90k in Wembley stadium when the tickets are sold for 3 pounds or rock or stone or whatever the hell you use over there. Lets use this analogy: in the US we have the MLS (major league soccer). I'm sure those guys are very good at what they do (I wouldn't know because I will never watch that ****** sport anyway). But lets say the MVP of the current MLS season considers himself to be the best soccer player in the world. Would that be true? HELL NO! Because everyone knows that the American soccer players are inferior to their European counterparts. The MVP of the American MLS would probably be an OK bench player on Machester United or Real Madrid (those are actual teams right?). Because Europe is where soccer (futbol) is played at its highest level and the American soccer players know it. Thats what you UK guys don't want to accept. Boxing is at its highest form in America and that's where pay is at its premium. All top ten PPV boxing matches were done in the US. Do you think Saudi Arabia could've generated 500-600 million for a May/Pac or May/Conor fight? Hell-to-the-Naw! Once Wilder knocks out the Pillsbury doughboy, he should invite Lyllian White over to Vegas and knock her fat ass out. Then invite GayJ over to finish off the trifecta of Euro bums. But at least they will get paid more than they would for those fights over here. And sorry but we do PPV in Vegas, no DA-ZASTER App! Our PPV business model works the best where both teams get in a room and crunch all the numbers and evenly split up whats there. DAZN's business model is "we'll tell you how much we will give you and don't worry about the rest of it". NAH...thats shytes not gonna fly over here baby. WAR PBC! WAR UNCLE AL!

[Noelanthony]

Yep same but you just knew it wasn't going to happen .Entering R.12 I would have even took a para-glider entering the ring to end my misery.

Lololololol

[N/A]

Oh I'm sure the Saudis can compete just fine with US PPV lmao

Even with Joshua having one loss, if it's an undisputed fight, it likely does around 1.5 million buys at $85. That's over $127 million. Even with the kind of money the Saudis are throwing around, they're not going to spend enough to get a fight that could be a huge US PPV instead.

[chicken-]

Eddie Hearn and Frank Warren have both said, many times, that fights in the US generate more money.

You guys can keep ignoring facts and talking about attendance with $25 tickets in the UK all you want. It generates more money in the US, period, that is a fact.

So keep making excuses why AJ needs to have it in the UK, while Fury gladly fights in the US to earn more money.

[Corelone]

I don't care where it happens, but AJ is getting back into his Diva act, like we didn't see him get the horse laugh in N.Y. and running from a fat man in an ad hoc stadium with a race track disguised as a ring. Like the home cooking is all he has. Why do Americans always have to go to the UK to beat UK ass? I'm still waiting for a UK fighter to conquer America. Ken Buchanan and Tyson Fury, are the flag bearers, I'm a fan of both. Kenny was a real monster, he fought western hemisphere for most of his career as champion. Chu Chu Malave personally told me, nobody hit him as hard as Ken, but I digress.

[SchoolTheseCats]

Ruiz did break AJ. But that doesnt change the fact that its a unified champ vs an alphabet titleist. Plus AJ got way more money spending fans then Wilder

The fight makes way more money in Vegas than any stadium in the u.k that’s known facts.... u.k fans also travel to see they star fighter so what aj is saying is dumb and just points to him being scared to fight in USA again

[DaNeutral.]

The fight makes way more money in Vegas than any stadium in the u.k that’s known facts.... u.k fans also travel to see they star fighter so what aj is saying is dumb and just points to him being scared to fight in USA again

How do we know this? Wilder just faced Ortiz and couldnt sell more than 7 thousand tickets. Wilder fans tell me Ortiz was seen as the 2nd best Heavy by Americans and was better known than Joshua by Americans. But it did 7k.

We keep getting told about the size of this fight in America but then we keep getting told nobody cares about AJ and then we see Wilders fights bomb. The American market is huge but it doesnt seem to be turning out for Wilder. You Wilder fans need to stop flip flopping or using double standards cuz the math dont add up.

[DaNeutral.]

Eddie Hearn and Frank Warren have both said, many times, that fights in the US generate more money.

You guys can keep ignoring facts and talking about attendance with $25 tickets in the UK all you want. It generates more money in the US, period, that is a fact.

So keep making excuses why AJ needs to have it in the UK, while Fury gladly fights in the US to earn more money.

We dont need to make excuses for anything. Joshua is a massive A side over Wilder so if Joshua wants it to be in the UK thats enough. We dont need to make excuses for it. But if it ever happened it would be a 2 fight deal anyway so none of this matters.

[Tonylove]

A boxing Master class and best performance ever seen aren’t necessarily the same but I get your point.

[OldTerry]

joshua does more ppvs than wilder,, joshua does better live gates than wilder why wouldn't it be there? wilder tried to become a ppv star to see if it could make sense here but all his fights flopped so im not sure why a wilder-joshua fight would suddenly do great business. take it to where it's guaranteed to do great business instead of pipe dreams.

I don't agree that all of Wilder's fights have flopped but obviously they've not had the success that Joshua's fights have. So, I would agree that the UK looks the best from a financial perspective. No matter where the fight happens the key issues are the selection of unbiased judges and a referee that lets both of them fight and is not too quick to stop the fight.