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

[Redgloveman]

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.

Yeah, he's done fantastically well for himself; no doubt about it. But he also left 40 million dollars behind. That represents a 40% loss straight off the bat which is enormous in business terms.

This is before you mention the fact that he would have been a walking money-factory if he had won the unified HW championship.

So all in all, despite the fact that he is very wealthy in objective terms, he is a relative pauper compared to the version of himself that took the deal.

[daggum]

the saddest part of all of this is wilder is the one who was taken advantage of, and was done so by the people he trusted most. wilder seems to have a lot of pride and im sure they used that against him so he would stay with pbc, but a black capitalist is no better than a white one. haymon wanted his business to thrive and exploiting his labor force to do things that arent in their best interest is just what he did. wilder you got played. time to wake up!

[hhh1200]

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

Nothing but the truth.

[sicko]

Really depends on what happens in the 3rd Fight honestly

Financially he is still making great money and found himself on the Forbes list so no I don't think it is any Regrets on his part at least not financially especially considering where he comes from and what he originally thought he would be which is just a Journeyman who wanted to provide for his family but instead Haymon and Finkle made him a very Rich man

If he knocks out Fury in the 3rd Fight and get his Belt back then he stands to make even more money and becomes a even bigger Draw because people love a comeback story

I think Fury has his number personally but he always has a Punchers chance with that Power

[ShoulderRoll]

Does Thomas Hauser ever write hit piece articles on Top Rank and Bob Arum?

Or just on Top Rank's competitors?

[Szef]

His career will go down as one of the worst managed in recent times

Haymon and Finkel are trash and no smart fighter should want to have anything to do with them after this fiasco

[Luilun]

Wilder example of A Big Man With a Little Brain

[rickJen]

Wilder would not have fought on DAZN platform at all costs.
His management team, which included Espinoza at first, but backed
down in the Luis Ortiz 2, presumably to stop the bleeding, ie, overpaying Wilder,
was hell bent on keeping Wilder in the PBC premises.

Still, Deontay made tens of millions of dollars just by mere association
with Joshua's name. Not bad for a guy whose highest purse was $2 mil.

The real losers were those investors that invested in him.

[Oldskoolg]

Deadzone wanted the wilder fam base which includes black Americans and the entire state of Alabama, and many a fight fan in Brooklyn. Oh what might have been for the deadzone....had wilder only signed over his career to deadzone and Hearn.....oh what might have been for the would be “american takeover”.....more football that Americans don’t want to see, snooker, darts, more of what Americans don’t want to see.....he’ll maybe they can get cornhole! Badminton! Curling! They need something!

[Tyistall]

Also, for you idiots that think Wilder made 60 million off fighting off fighting Breazeale, Ortiz and Fury, please give us the mathematical way that could have happened when the area was not full and none of the fights were PPV hits. Wilder was never paid that much before and the promoters are not that ****** to just way over pay a boxer who can't even sell out a high school gym. It's not Monopoly money haha