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The $100m dazn offer situation was a duck...
but here's what got me
- Wilder was on $1m a fight. Got offered $5m for Dillian Whyte. Why didn't Wilder just trust Eddie Hearn and at least work with matchroom on this? Why was he so disgusted with Whyte? come on man, if a top Welterweight is offered $5m for a fight vs a C level Welter, they'd jump at it. Back then $5m for a HW fight was a big deal. AJ didn't get that much fighting Whyte for example.
Wilder demanded $8m at the time instead...obv knew he won't get it. Then he fought Ortiz for $2m. Claiming ortiz is 'the second best HW in the world'.
This is the same as the aj/fury situation
'i was offered more to fight Whyte, but fought ortiz instead' but why? fight someone 'better' (in his opinion) for a lot less? bizarre.
Then he was offered $12.5m for AJ, but later fought Fury for $5m and once again said 'im fighting the second best HW in the world'.
- he did make aj a $50m email offer with 24 hours deadline, without any contract or information/terms provided. Blatantly this was a fake/dodgy offer because they refused to meet with eddie, insisted 'aj must say 'i accept' before we send the contract'..knowing he would never do that. You had finkle telling Dan Rafael that there's NO rematch clause if aj loses (but there would be one if wilder lost). No date or venue (how ironic) given either.
Later after taking the Fury fight, Frank warren claimed he'd seen the contract because bt sports would have fronted the money...and that it was guaranteed $80m with a rematch. Blatant contradiction.
WHY didnt the wilder fans wake up at this point?
- then they accepted a new $15m offer, finkle publically accepted it and said they are waiting for a signed contract.
they waited weeks and then came out and said 'its a scam, it doesnt have AJs sig'
By that time, Canelo vs GGG was announced (with Espinoza's full knowledge). He asked AJ/Wilder to get moved to october so as not to clash with canelo vs ggg (2 superfights in the same month wouldnt work).
owing to the change in weather from september (we have a late english summer) to october (when we get heavy rainfall as we have right now), Eddie has to change the venue from Wembley to a closing roof stadium, the Principality stadium in Cardiff, with an 80k capacity.
This gave team wilder a brand new excuse 'no date no venue'. Since espinoza was involved and knew about canelo vs ggg when it was in the works, he obv told team wilder how NOT to make the fight.
Espinoza fked up bigtime. He knew Dazn were new players, he had AJ vs Wilder in the bag..and decided to mess people around, not defend AJ and protect the fight. it would have been a showtime ppv and would have done huge numbers. He lost that fight and has since blamed AJ for not taking the $50m offer to detract from the fact HE fked up. He should have set up canelo vs ggg for october instead since that would be in an indoor arena in vegas anyway.
Espinoza, Finkle, Lou Dibella and Al haymon
they all fked up.
but here's what got me
- Wilder was on $1m a fight. Got offered $5m for Dillian Whyte. Why didn't Wilder just trust Eddie Hearn and at least work with matchroom on this? Why was he so disgusted with Whyte? come on man, if a top Welterweight is offered $5m for a fight vs a C level Welter, they'd jump at it. Back then $5m for a HW fight was a big deal. AJ didn't get that much fighting Whyte for example.
Wilder demanded $8m at the time instead...obv knew he won't get it. Then he fought Ortiz for $2m. Claiming ortiz is 'the second best HW in the world'.
This is the same as the aj/fury situation
'i was offered more to fight Whyte, but fought ortiz instead' but why? fight someone 'better' (in his opinion) for a lot less? bizarre.
Then he was offered $12.5m for AJ, but later fought Fury for $5m and once again said 'im fighting the second best HW in the world'.
- he did make aj a $50m email offer with 24 hours deadline, without any contract or information/terms provided. Blatantly this was a fake/dodgy offer because they refused to meet with eddie, insisted 'aj must say 'i accept' before we send the contract'..knowing he would never do that. You had finkle telling Dan Rafael that there's NO rematch clause if aj loses (but there would be one if wilder lost). No date or venue (how ironic) given either.
Later after taking the Fury fight, Frank warren claimed he'd seen the contract because bt sports would have fronted the money...and that it was guaranteed $80m with a rematch. Blatant contradiction.
WHY didnt the wilder fans wake up at this point?
- then they accepted a new $15m offer, finkle publically accepted it and said they are waiting for a signed contract.
they waited weeks and then came out and said 'its a scam, it doesnt have AJs sig'
By that time, Canelo vs GGG was announced (with Espinoza's full knowledge). He asked AJ/Wilder to get moved to october so as not to clash with canelo vs ggg (2 superfights in the same month wouldnt work).
owing to the change in weather from september (we have a late english summer) to october (when we get heavy rainfall as we have right now), Eddie has to change the venue from Wembley to a closing roof stadium, the Principality stadium in Cardiff, with an 80k capacity.
This gave team wilder a brand new excuse 'no date no venue'. Since espinoza was involved and knew about canelo vs ggg when it was in the works, he obv told team wilder how NOT to make the fight.
Espinoza fked up bigtime. He knew Dazn were new players, he had AJ vs Wilder in the bag..and decided to mess people around, not defend AJ and protect the fight. it would have been a showtime ppv and would have done huge numbers. He lost that fight and has since blamed AJ for not taking the $50m offer to detract from the fact HE fked up. He should have set up canelo vs ggg for october instead since that would be in an indoor arena in vegas anyway.
Espinoza, Finkle, Lou Dibella and Al haymon
they all fked up.
Reality, he has the worst resume of any wbc champ ever.
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