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

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****** article imo.

Deontay and his team made decisions that they thought were correct at the time, it is what it is.

Wilder still has far more cash and fame than anyone who posts on here.

its never correct to fight worse opponents for less money. joshua was number one and he ran like the ****ens to fight a coked up out of shape fury(his words) stop defending his ****** decisions.

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it was reported by wilder fanboys that if joshua lost wilder wouldn't get the money what gives!!! what we cant make up things anymore? corona is a hoax too right? i mean it was reported! ***** wasnt born in the US! it was reported!

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what if we resort to ad hominem attacks against the author if we dont like its contents? HE'S A FRAUD! HOAX!!!

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its never correct to fight worse opponents for less money. joshua was number one and he ran like the ****ens to fight a coked up out of shape fury(his words) stop defending his ****** decisions.

He thought it would lead to bigger fights and more money in the long run. In hindsight it was a mistake, but these things happen, have you never made a poor business decision in error? I suspect most of us have if we’re being honest.

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Let's not forget the politics of boxing and that no one in the US watches DAZN. Wilders team doesn't go for flat purses in a PPV fight, they want a certain percentage. And there was no guarantee of an AJ fight from Team Joshua, only from DAZN. How's that working for the Canelo vs GGG 3 fight?

Shhhhhh....we’re not supposed to talk about that. To a certain fan base, dazn is the greatest thing since sliced bread and all Americans MUST fall in line with it....

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He thought it would lead to bigger fights and more money in the long run. In hindsight it was a mistake, but these things happen, have you never made a poor business decision in error? I suspect most of us have if we’re being honest.

the problem is you could use that excuse to duck anyone. oh i dont want to fight him because the fight will be bigger later. i mean sure anything is possible but 40 mill is more than floyd was making and the guy was nowhere near floyds level of popularity.

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Shhhhhh....we’re not supposed to talk about that. To a certain fan base, dazn is the greatest thing since sliced bread and all Americans MUST fall in line with it....

dazn sucks but what does that have to do with wilder being an idiot and ducking? wilder the big oaf talks about guys not being able to make their own decisions...yet he got played like a puppet by haymon who wanted him to stay not for wilders own good but for pbc's own good and thus haymons own good, and in the end wilder ended up with a lot less money. maybe one day he will realize what happened...

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Six months after Wilder turned down DAZN, PBC locked in Fox deal. That would not have been possible if Wilder had an exclusive agreement with DAZN. Haymon went against his fighters interests to further his business.... but he also overpaid Wilder like crazy for that opportunity, and Wilder felt good going along with it.

We can speculate that Wilder would have likely fought Breazele, Whyte and Joshua over three fights and could have certainly won them, becoming undisputed blah blah blah but at the end of the day Wilder made 60 million dollars to fight fucking Breazele, Ortiz and Fury again.

That is INSANE; Wilder was making $1-2million a fight before this. Wider made out like a bandit, regardless.

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Six months after Wilder turned down DAZN, PBC locked in Fox deal. That would not have been possible if Wilder had an exclusive agreement with DAZN. Haymon went against his fighters interests to further his business.... but he also overpaid Wilder like crazy for that opportunity, and Wilder felt good going along with it.

We can speculate that Wilder would have likely fought Breazele, Whyte and Joshua over three fights and could have certainly won them, becoming undisputed blah blah blah but at the end of the day Wilder made 60 million dollars to fight fucking Breazele, Ortiz and Fury again.

That is INSANE; Wilder was making $1-2million a fight before this. Wider made out like a bandit, regardless.

FOX/PBC deal was inked circa September of 2018 or thereabouts. It was then American boxing was brought back to the people

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FOX/PBC deal was inked circa September of 2018 or thereabouts. It was then American boxing was brought back to the people

you could say haymon made boxing great again