Comments Thread For: What If Deontay Wilder Had Accepted DAZN's $100 Million Offer?

[Jkp]

Let's not forget mismatchroom / dazn couldn't even negotiate a fight between 2 of there own fighters, aj & whyte. Even with 3 world titles on offer, there own fighter, whyte, refused to participate in there horrible contracts.

[Fire4231]

BS slander article.

[archiemoore1]

If Wilder accepted the 100 mil from DAZN, he'd probably still be wearing a real severe asswhipping, and still have a big ass dent in the side of his head, but at least he would be up 100 mil for his troubles. BOMMMMMB SQUAAAAAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Robbie Barrett]

So Wilder made much less money. Like everyone that isn't a Wilder nuthugger said he would. "Betting on himself" though........

[OctoberRed]

Interestingly you forgot to mention that Lou DiBella was also there.

I don't think he was there, but he did play a role in setting it up. He put Wilder on the phone with Skipper of DAZN I think.

[Mickey Pearson]

Basically idiotic move to turn down 100 mill...call yourself a god...then lose...sounds like taking commands from haymon after all

[Redgloveman]

The thing that always struck me with this Wilder DAZN fiasco was that the narrative coming from team Wilder for literally years was that they were absolutely desperate to fight AJ. Remember “one face, one name”? Wilder admitted to breaking down in tears over how his career was a mess but he was always dead set on proving that he was the best in his era and the baddest man on the planet.

When it came to making the Joshua fight “all they have to do is pick up the phone” and the fight would be made

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Then when they get the chance to unify (“one face, one name”) plus a promise of $100m they welch out and fight a nobody in Dominic Breazeale in a free to air show (because, let’s be real, they knew the fight would generate embarrassing PPV numbers)

When Wilder was asked to explain this decision by reporters Finkle refused to let Wilder speak and said that “Wilder is betting on himself” rather than, you know, doing what he has constantly claimed that he is desperate to do for the last 3-4 years.

It was the moment that it became abundantly clear to anyone with even a lick of intelligence and impartiality that Team Wilder has never and will never be a team which believes they are the best and wants to prove it. They evidently want to manipulate their asset through to as profitable position as possible without taking any avoidable risks. To the point where they’re willing to turn down a $100m contract out of hand for the biggest fight in the sport.

The fact that actual boxing fans (even writers on this site, like Thomas Hauser) were still buying (or furthering) this idea of Wilder as a potentially all-conquering champion after the DAZN contract says a lot about the blindly partisan nature of the sport today, where celebrity apparently counts for more than truth.

[Robbie Barrett]

The thing that always struck me with this Wilder DAZN fiasco was that the narrative coming from team Wilder for literally years was that they were absolutely desperate to fight AJ. Remember “one face, one name”? Wilder admitted to breaking down over how his career was a mess.

Then when they get the chance to unify (“one face, one name”) plus a promise of $100m they welch out and fight a nobody in Dominic Breazeale in a free to air show (because, let’s be real, they knew the fight would generate embarrassing PPV numbers)

When Wilder was asked to explain this decision by reporters Finkle refused to let Wilder speak and said that “Wilder is betting on himself” rather than, you know, doing what he has constantly claimed that he is desperate to do for the last 3-4 years.

It was the moment that it became abundantly clear to anyone with even a lick of intelligence and impartiality that Team Wilder has never and will never be a team which believes they are the best and wants to prove it. They evidently want to manipulate their asset through to as profitable position as possible without taking any avoidable risks. To the point where they’re willing to turn down a $100m contract out of hand for the biggest fight in the sport.

The fact that actual boxing fans (even writers on this site, like Thomas Hauser) were still buying (or furthering) this idea of Wilder as a potentially all-conquering champion after the DAZN contract says a lot about the blindly partisan nature of the sport today, where celebrity apparently counts for more than truth.

I think they genuinely believed waiting would make the fight bigger. They chose Fury because they thought he was finished with so many years out of the ring and having to lose all that weight. They then took the rematch believing Wilder could catch him like he did in the first but finish him. Every decision they made was a bad one. They did what Haymon wanted and Wilder lost out.

[champion4ever]

It's very interesting how some boxing fans are calling Deontay Wilder an idiot for refusing to fight Anthony Joshua on his terms. That $30 million dollar offer was at least $20 million dollars less than what Deontay Wilder offered AJ back in 2018.

All John Skipper had to do was show Team Wilder the purse split; Which was something that he was very reluctant to do. Well at least he has owned up to it. He blames himself for those talks breaking down.

[Redgloveman]

I think they genuinely believed waiting would make the fight bigger. They chose Fury because they thought he was finished with so many years out of the ring and having to lose all that weight. They then took the rematch believing Wilder could catch him like he did in the first but finish him. Every decision they made was a bad one. They did what Haymon wanted and Wilder lost out.

If they thought they would have won, they should have taken the opportunity to unify when it was on the table (even without the $100m). As a huge hitting American unified heavyweight champion of the world, Wilder would have become one of the biggest names in SPORTS over night if he had beaten Joshua... they decided to fight Breazeale instead.