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

[Robbie Barrett]

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.

I don't think they were confident of beating Joshua either. They wanted to milk Wilder some more and try and cash out with a massive Joshua fight later.

[tritium_arma]

The gist of the article to me is this: Fury is boxing's cash cow. The golden goose. The face of the sport. The kingpin of the division. The boogeyman. The man to beat. The shot caller.

Fury is the best of the heavyweights but the article says Top Rank loss money on the Fury fights. He’s no cash cow.

[Oldskoolg]

And now the deadzone USA is very nearly a thing of the past. Eddie Hearn doomed it from the beginning acting as if he were King George going to deal with those rustic colonials who need
To know their place and fall at the feet of the British empire. And the bigoted nationalistic “all lives matter” crowd is STILL angry and fuming at wilder for not letting either Eddie Hearn or the deadzone control his career and at the same
Time prop deadzone up via his fan base. Never understood why football hooligan piss up St George Cross waving council estate nationalists were and are so obsessed with being important to the Americans. When the deadzone launched, oh my my did the “empire” militants rant and rave and froth at the mouth about “American takeovers”....and look at Eddie Hearn and the deadzone now. Dismal failures in the USA.
Defeated by Al Haymon.....a coloured american bloke....and that’s what enrages the militants the most

[Zelda]

Wilder certainly bet on himself. He thought he could beat Fury, get that money, and still come back for an even bigger offer (like Mayweather-Pacquiao) than $100m. That did not work out so, according to the article, he made close to $60m which assumes that the Fury-Wilder II fight pay for Wilder was eventually what was the gurantee and no more. Most outlets, however, suggested that $25m is minimum gurantee with a percentage of revenue in addition to that. IIf we believe the minimum, that leaves Wilder with a $40m potential loss.

When you bet, the possibility of an adverse outcome cannot be ruled out. It is a risk you must take. Wilder lost that bet as soon as he lost to Fury and the only way to comeback from this is to win the third fight and go for a big payday vs Joshua. Other possibly lucrative fight can be against Ruiz Jr.

[Pigeons]

Fury is a steroid cheat. A con man. A guy who kisses other guys. A mandatory ducker. A guy who went 12 rounds with Wallin and almost lost on cuts. A guy with only 2 good names on his resume. A champion who has only fought 2 guys out of the top 33 heavyweights in the world right now. A guy who fought in a fight where ewe they gave away more tickets than they sold, and that was 2 fights ago. A guy who faked mental illness to make people look away from the steroids. A guy who is married to his 3rd cousin.

Don't knock it til you try it buddy

[SteveM]

Loads of fans arguing th etoss as to whether Wilder was an idiot for letting $40 million slipping through his fingers.

But ignoring that he has made $60 million from three fights.

The same loads of fans, who I very much doubt have even earned 1% of 60 million.

Pointless article and argument.

oh, and the same fans (??) who argue whether a far superior fighter such as Roman Gonzalez deserves just $1 million for fighting a far better fighter in Estrada.

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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.

[QballLobo]

Had he signed it he would have $120 million guaranteed in the bank. Unfortunately he was scared to take that L and made 30% of that the last two years at best.

[REDEEMER]

“But more likely, the lure of a big payday for an "easy" fight against Ruiz would have been too enticing for Team Joshua to pass up.”


Ruiz wouldn’t be in the picture had Wilder agreed to fight because that Breazeale fight was announced months Before In March , why would they jump looking for opponents anyway with Wilder attached instead of training for Wilder ? it’s no logic here .

If Wilder had signed then AJ doesn’t overlook Ruiz either with that huge fight next if that even played out like that and would probably have postponed that MSG date Which again makes no sense because the Miller fight was sc****d ,there were then at least 3 guys who turned the fight down , they’re not going to be fishing for opponents with Wilder already committed who had fought in May and AJ having a short training camp with risking the undisputed fight .

[TMLT87]

It's like this.

Wilder and PBC thought fury was SHOT (as did almost everyone else) and thought he could beat this fat depressed guy and call him lineal champion.

They didn't want any part of the AJ fight which even post Ruiz I can't call any better than that being a 50/50 for wilder

Anyway obviously it backfired massively and Wilder lost probs at least $50 million dollars and Fury ended up not being shot and being a worse opponent for Wilder than AJ

All in all a disaster

Yep, absolutely horrific miscalculation on their part trying to use Fury as leverage in AJ negotiations. You can just imagine them watching a tubby Fury go 10 rounds with Pianeta and thinking they were about to play a master stroke.