Comments Thread For: Eddie Hearn: We Must See Joshua vs. Wilder-Fury Winner

[REDEEMER]

You would think most boxing fans would be on the same page with this, regardless of who they like more or how they feel about Hearn. A unified champion is clearly a good thing for the sport and AJ vs the winner is the most commercially viable fight in the division if not in all of boxing. Plus the likely alternative is Fury and Wilder spending the next year plus fighting guys that arent top 10 level and then in mid/late 2021 facing each other again for no particular reason. In which case the division doesnt progress at all because the belts still wont be unified and the alleged top two wont face anyone but each other so we never really know how good they truly are relative to everyone else.

But sadly some people are so wrapped up in the war between promoters/promotions that it matters more to them that Hearn is sad and AJ gets shut out than belts being unified and the biggest possible fights happening.

The Fury fans starting to sound like the Wilder ones already making excuses not to have the fight ,I wonder if any real change will be made on the forum if Fury wins . Ha

[Roberto Vasquez]

Hearn needs to stay quiet to after this fight. If Wilder or fury don't want to fight Joshua he just needs to forget about them.They are both coming up to retirement soon anyway.

I actually think Wilder would fight AJ before Fury would. Fury is all talk - like when he said he would fight Whyte and then ran when the WBC agreed to his conditions. He was like "Oh s**t they agreed"

Wilder knows he can KO AJ so that fight will be too tempting for him to turn down with the belts and money involved

[REDEEMER]

"The fact is, we have made offers to Fury and Wilder of 60 per cent to 40 per cent way before they were as relevant as they are now and they both turned it down."

So all the haters who said Wilder "cherry-picked" Fury because he was fat and out of shape, please take note! Your boy was attempting to "pick" from the same exact tree! Thr difference is the fat guy he chose, knocked his azz the f@ck out! Lol!

That’s false Hearn offered Fury a 3 fight deal to get him ready for AJ , it was Wilder doing the cowardly act of trying to get Fury straight away . AJ said he wanted no excuses when he won so Hearn lined up better opponents for him then the ones he faced before Wilder .

[Tecnoworld]

Right and that's in June lol Then Usyk is going to want his shot at AJ next he didn't move up to HW to fight gatekeepers lol I bet as soon as negotiations get tough they'll use Usyk as the excuse to opt out lol

I never liked Pulev, but I'd be so Happy if he could receive a guft and ko AJ.

[Ray*]

Trolling by Hearn, winner has to rematch the loser, AJ has two mandos. 2021 you can talk and put pressure on them.

[thack]

Hearn needs to concentrate on keeping his golden goose from getting chinned again.Leave these two guys alone as even Saturday may not bring a conclusive out come they are the elite of the division and very well matched .Hence the massive excitement produced by this fight.

[deathofaclown]

AJ's last fight broke the UK PPV record I'd say that pretty much writes off most of your post as gibberish.

That’s because people were wondering if a fat guy would turn him into a meme again.

It wasn’t buys of support. It’s when the whole nation used to tune in towards Eddie The Eagle do the Ski Jump

AJ was the laughing stock of the nation.

[deathofaclown]

Are you from the UK? If so, I disagree that Tyson Fury is the nations sweetheart. Joshua appears in far more places than Fury.

Fury's reputation preceeds him and his past actions can be quick to be used against him so he is really walking the thin line. Yes, fans are fickel. They are quick to gloss over his personal views. As a boxing fan, I can't look the other way when it comes to his alledged doping.

Joshua on the other hand has been squeaky clean as a professional boxer. This whole perception by the 'public' is just your opinion. When I ask people if they are watching the fight this weekend, the answer is always the same; 'Is Joshua fighting?'...Wilder and Fury are firmly in the shadow of Joshua, at least where I am.

Joshua's popularity isn't affected by Tyson Fury winning this weekend. All that will happen is Tyson Fury's popularity will go up (if he wins). Trying to say that it is linked only shows that you like Fury over Joshua so lets not project your own opinion and call it fact.

Joshua irrelevance is in his own hands - he never really does articles or interviews. If he wants Hearn to do his talking then thats our loss. As soon as this fight is done, or when the trilogy fight is done - Joshua's relevance will soon blow these two fighters away ten-fold.

But you are right. Fans are fickel. No more Ruiz fans round here.

Either way - loving all the fight week stuff going on. Going to be a great fight.

The fact is AJ was a joke as of last June.

Fury is the nations hero now and will cement it this weekend. He’s in the same category as Sir Steve Redgrave, Stephen Fry, Dame Helen Mirren, Princess Diana, Gary Barlow and John Virgo.

The nation love him now. That’s why morning TV shows can’t get enough of his wife and why he has a 3 part documentary on ITV 1.

AJ just hasn’t got the personality to carry off a 3 part documentary. Joe Public are bored of him now, fickle sods they are. The Ruiz rematch sold well because of intrigue to see if he would be flattened by a fat man again, but his popularity is dwindling and has been for a while. Fury is in pole position and he’s also the better fighter, so he’ll stay there.

[koolkc107]

Eddie Hearn made this bed.

He repeatedly ran away from making this fight, mostly because a) he didn't have confidence in AJ beating Wilder or Fury and, b) making anything approaching a fair deal meant he, Eddie Hearn, wouldn't make too much.

Hearn, as much as anyone, threw Wilder and Fury together. And now the two of them are more relevant than AJ.

Hearns worst nightmare is that we get ANOTHER close and hotly contested classic like the first one.

If that happens, folks are going to want a 3rd fight much, much more than anything involving AJ...and I hope Wilder and Fury rub the trilogy in Eddie's face by having it in Wembley.

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The Fury fans starting to sound like the Wilder ones already making excuses not to have the fight ,I wonder if any real change will be made on the forum if Fury wins . Ha

I'm a Fury fan and I'd love to see him fight AJ.

First, because it would probably be the biggest ever British boxing fight, and second, I know that Fury would completely outclass and dominate him. Joshua is a much easier fight for Fury than Wilder.