If wilder had signed with dazn I doubt Ruiz would’ve been used as the replacement, it would’ve almost certainly have been Ortiz in that case. He was only turning down AJ to fight wilder.
However that would’ve been a huge matchup even if ortiz beat Joshua because the first fight already had questions - but if ortiz had then best AJ and held all the belts that rematch would’ve become huge itself; and far bigger than the actual rematch was at the time.
Everybody said at the time that he should’ve taken the money except for a few wilder fans trying to defend his move for whatever bias reasons they could come up with. The only scenario where the money would have gone up for him is if both he and Joshua continued to win every fight.
As has been proven, fury doesn’t bring the same draw as AJ unfortunately and whereas you can guarantee a ppv baseline number in the UK if their is a behind closed door fight , unfortunately you can’t do the same for fury.
However that would’ve been a huge matchup even if ortiz beat Joshua because the first fight already had questions - but if ortiz had then best AJ and held all the belts that rematch would’ve become huge itself; and far bigger than the actual rematch was at the time.
Everybody said at the time that he should’ve taken the money except for a few wilder fans trying to defend his move for whatever bias reasons they could come up with. The only scenario where the money would have gone up for him is if both he and Joshua continued to win every fight.
As has been proven, fury doesn’t bring the same draw as AJ unfortunately and whereas you can guarantee a ppv baseline number in the UK if their is a behind closed door fight , unfortunately you can’t do the same for fury.
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