Comments Thread For: Hearn: I Expect Wilder To Request Rematch - Where Else Can He Go?

[Monty Fisto]

If Wilder loses his next fight against any top 5 his stock will drop.

You think?

Do you do any work for hotels.com?

[Monty Fisto]

All the Focus on Bashing Wilder for losing BUT Bob Arum and Frank Warren are the biggest Winners from last night as well as ESPN who now have what will be the biggest Draws in Combat Sports (McGregor in the UFC and soon to be Fury in Boxing for Top Rank) exclusively

Undoubtedly, last night's outcome couldn't have been any better for Bob and ESPN, but it's worth noting the deal Fury signed with ESPN was for five fights and he's already had three of them.

[Fire4231]

Lol...Yeah Hearn why wouldn’t they choose to make a massive amount of money giving us another entertaining fight.

Something you seem incapable of. Yes let’s see the Number one Heavyweight fight the number two heavyweight yet again.

[TMLT87]

You can't make no money fighting on DAZN. It's not Pay Per View. DAZN have what we like to call in American football a hard cap. That means the salaries are fixed and there are no guarantees or percentages based off sales.

In addition, it's an online streaming subscriber based platform only. Similar to what HBO you used to be. With Pay Per View there are unlimited amounts of revenue streams.

Wilder/Fury 3 will make a lot more money in the states on Pay per View than a Fury/Joshua bout on DAZN in the U.K.

Okay businessman, you dont want to see the best possible fights in boxing because you care more about promoters than fights, got it.

[Rustyman]

I agree that I can’t see what else wilder can do.

If he comes back gets a knock down (which is possible despite what everyone says immediately after a result) then it changes everything.

The problem is that many argue he lost the first fight too, so losing a third would destroy him and potentially end a fight with Joshua?

The alternative might be to go for good but not too end heavyweights such as a Povetkin or Takam and try and earn his place back to fight Joshua?

If I was him I would avoid Parker, Ruiz and Whyte - they are all risky now and if he were to lose to any then his career is all but over !

Completely agree. While Hearn can spout a lot of bull at times, he is a pretty smart guy when he gets off the marketing speak.

Also, Wilder has not got a belt so he isn't viable for Joshua. He needs to get that belt from Fury to get an opportunity at Joshua and the megabucks.

I do think however that if Wilder does not take up his immediate rematch opportunity, it will be 2 years before he has another as it would be Fury/Joshua x 2 and then Whyte for the winner before any talk of a Wilder fight. I don't think Wilder can wait so long.