Comments Thread For: Hearn Shocked There is No Media Tour For Wilder-Fury

[Oshio]

It is part of the tactics on the part of Wilder's manage team to avoid Fury trashtalking Wilder up before his face--something that affected Wilder in the first fight

[EnglishOxide]

Fury is the biggest personality in the sport. Imagine McGregor not doing any media for one of his UFC fights? Wilder got destroyed last time and clearly wants nothing to do with the Gypsy King. Fury should do his own press conferences with a chicken in Deontay's chair.

What I don't get is that Deyonce actually has some ammo to use. All he has to do is keep his cool and repeat some facts.

Fury DID reject the immediate rematch to run to ESPN and fight two bums. He DID get knocked down twice and almost knocked out. Fury, at times DID get matched in terms of punches/jabs landed.

I'm not even a Deyonce fan but he should have enough conviction in himself to stand his ground and not be intimidated by Fury in a press conference.

Floyd Mayweather was similarly a bad talker but he still understood the importance of selling a fight to raise his star power. That's why he let McCregor clown him. Deyonce it seems is too ****** to understand that. He is being badly advised yet again and is limiting his earning potential.

[TinAgeOfBoxing]

The first fixed fight had that embarrassing fake stare down then video showed Wilder and Fury being chummy buddies back stage. Both promoters and both fighters are in on the fix planning a trilogy before the first fight even happened. WWE boxing.

[Cracaphat]

No tour because PBC want to save their money.

[Oldskoolg]

Yes boxing fans are whiny idiots who don't realize if promoters did what boxing fans wanted the sport would cease to exist. Look at how many idiots on here think it's great for boxing, a niche sport, to be shown on a niche app instead of being shown on broadcast tv. Then they say dumb **** like "I don't care I just want to see the fights" Cool for boxing fans. Horrible for the growth of the sport. Without growth the sport dies. Top Rank putting their best fighters on ESPN plus then they turn around and complain their fighters can't sell tickets. Canelo numbers are dropping. Nobody seems to be able to put 2 & 2 together. Idiot boxing fans

It’s a particular segment of so called fans you’re talking about cousin, it’s the nationalists from a particular country...absolute casuals they are and blinded by a flag and 20th century jingoism. Don’t forget we are talking about the “empire” here...

[KillaMane26]

Kinda ****** if Arum didnt take the immediate rematch to milk it then don't have press tour when the last fight benefited from a great press tour.

But oh well

[KillaMane26]

It is part of the tactics on the part of Wilder's manage team to avoid Fury trashtalking Wilder up before his face--something that affected Wilder in the first fight

Not true when they were friends behind the scenes the whole time

[MEXICAN STYLE]

Bob doesn't have money that's why he couldn't even afford to feed Brook to Crawford LMAO

[Toffee]

Yea this guy really doesn't understand the U.S. market.

Exactly what Bob wants you to say. You swallowed it.

Getting airtime in other big TV events isn't some innovative new idea. Believe it or not, the UK has big TV events too - and uses them to publicise their channel's upcoming shows. This has been happening in every developed nation forever.

But you still do a press conference. The networks and promoters are going use decent PPV numbers as evidence that network size is everything, hence DAZN can't compete - to the detriment of the fighters and the fans.

[Bob Haymon]

Y To understand how powerful that is Wilder vs Ortiz got 300k+ PPV buys because of shoulder programming on Fox. Remember that's a rematch nobody wanted to see.

I see we're just rounding up to the nearest hundred thousand and then some.

Yes boxing fans are whiny idiots who don't realize if promoters did what boxing fans wanted the sport would cease to exist. Look at how many idiots on here think it's great for boxing, a niche sport, to be shown on a niche app instead of being shown on broadcast tv. Then they say dumb **** like "I don't care I just want to see the fights" Cool for boxing fans. Horrible for the growth of the sport. Without growth the sport dies. Top Rank putting their best fighters on ESPN plus then they turn around and complain their fighters can't sell tickets. Canelo numbers are dropping. Nobody seems to be able to put 2 & 2 together. Idiot boxing fans

Why give the fans an affordable subscription option when you can just put your best fights behind an $80 paywall? How many tickets did Charlo-Harrison 2 sell? Most of the events on broadcast tv are trash like Plant-Lee. That's even worse for the growth of the sport.