Comments Thread For: Hearn: Moving Forward With Joshua-Pulev, Late May Or Early June

[Vinnykin]

OK... even if Fury would outbox Wilder, and (then) Fury would fight AJ (with what outcome?), people will still wish to watch Wilder vs Joshua... ... so it goes...

For sure..... I'd like to see them all fight each other 3 times, like the Ali days.

Fury and Wilder are doing their part as 2 of the top three fighters (IMO)..... AJ can fight both after.

Even if Wilder or Fury lose I think a Joshua fight is still more appealing than most of Joshua's other options. Getting outboxed by Fury does not mean you will get outboxed by Joshua..... loads of hypothetical's due to styles.

[Bigdaddy_Vh]

I don't have a problem with this fight, however, it should be taking place in March. No excuse for May or June. This is why big fights never happen when they should.

[MDPopescu]

For sure..... I'd like to see them all fight each other 3 times, like the Ali days.

Fury and Wilder are doing their part as 2 of the top three fighters (IMO)..... AJ can fight both after.

Even if Wilder or Fury lose I think a Joshua fight is still more appealing than most of Joshua's other options. Getting outboxed by Fury does not mean you will get outboxed by Joshua..... loads of hypothetical's due to styles.

... (as always) I'm trying to be honest: I think that the HW division is quite weak, as we speak... But that's what we've got... we should try to enjoy what's offered...

[MDPopescu]

I don't have a problem with this fight, however, it should be taking place in March. No excuse for May or June. This is why big fights never happen when they should.

... Hearn wants it on a stadium venue -- which, in UK, is only possible no sooner than early May, tbh...

[Vinnykin]

[QUOTE=MDPopescu;20361971]... (as always) I'm trying to be honest: I think that the HW division is quite weak, as we speak... But that's what we've got... we should try to enjoy what's offered... [/QUOTE

I agree...... the skill level is way down on fighters of the past.

[MDPopescu]

[QUOTE=Vinnykin;20362008]

... (as always) I'm trying to be honest: I think that the HW division is quite weak, as we speak... But that's what we've got... we should try to enjoy what's offered... [/QUOTE

I agree...... the skill level is way down on fighters of the past.

... OK, then.....................

[ShoulderRoll]

I guess you should read the article more carefully...

Hearn said AJ will fight Pulev in May-June...

... the article then reads:

Ukraine’s Usyk is armed with a similar guarantee from the WBO, which ordered his mandatory title shot to come on or before June 4, 2020.

For now, it appears that there exists cooperation amongst the governing bodies. It will also mean that Joshua will have to either go the year without pursuing another title—meaning, the winner of the February 22 rematch between World Boxing Council (WBC) titlist Deontay Wilder (42-0-1, 41KOs) of Tuscaloosa, Alabama and England’s Tyson Fury (29-0-1, 20KO)—or go into such a fight with one less belt.

“So for now, we’re moving forward with what looks like Joshua-Pulev,” notes Hearn. “We are looking at late May, early June, likely in London. From there, the winner would fight Usyk. The only way that Joshua wouldn’t fight Usyk is if he got the Wilder-Fury winner. That wouldn’t be undisputed, though, because the WBO will of course have to protect Usyk and order that fight."

As long as AJ-Pulev is to take place in May-early June it will be impossible to hold back WBO (who ordered AJ-Usyk for 4 June)... Hearn can't conclude a fight vs the winner of Wilder-Furry in a matter or hours-days... Therefore he expects WBO to strip AJ in the process...

The underlined is exactly what I was referring to. You should have read my response more carefully.

If unifications trump mandatories then I thought that meant the WBO couldn't do anything to protect Usyk and couldn't order that he get the fight.

But don't worry, other posters actually understood my question perfectly and clarified things. Before you came in.

You can run along now, dear.

[Jkp]

That has been proven a lie perpetuated by his lawyers. Lance Armstrong avoided many tests by simply avoiding testers..... and he wasn't tested by multiple agencies.

You just need to read the report into him and his teammates.

AJ goes on a lot of overseas holidays too. To make it harder for ukad to test him. You think an almost bankrupt ukad has money to fly to Jamaica once a week and test AJ on holiday.

Do you know that most dirty tests aren't even made public. Dillian failed test only got made public due to a leak.

Do some research...

[Jkp]

'I am the most tested athlete on earth and I have never tested positive', Lance Armstrong, 2003. Reliable source.

In reality, Armstrong did test positive and always had a ready excuse, such as creams for saddle sores in 1999, and also faced specific allegations of PED use from team members. People who worked with him, saying in no uncertain terms they had seen him juice.

We have nothing like this with Joshua. Literally nothing, other than baseless speculation on boxing forums.

Yep so he got off. Never got officially caught. Just like dillian whyte.

Check out what a TUES exemption is. Dillian already confirmed AJ has this. Basically a free pass to take peds.

[Vinnykin]

AJ goes on a lot of overseas holidays too. To make it harder for ukad to test him. You think an almost bankrupt ukad has money to fly to Jamaica once a week and test AJ on holiday.

Do you know that most dirty tests aren't even made public. Dillian failed test only got made public due to a leak.

Do some research...

Yes he does....... but he doesn't go to remote villa's in Spain like Armstrong done, or works with other teammates (impossible as a boxer) to coordinate avoiding them, or pull out of fights/events to avoid testing.... Armstrong never even paid for VADA testing out of his own pocket.

Whyte was tested 40 times last year by UKAD and VADA, one abnormal result.....

The VADA tests days before the UKAD test that came back negative were used as evidence of contamination. He was tested regularly and had one abnormal result..... in the court of UKAD that was enough to get him off..... dare say it would be unprovable ina court of law as well.

If UKAD did not exist we wouldn't be hearing about this...... which makes a case that any VADA only fighter is doping, they are all suspect.