Comments Thread For: Hearn: Joshua Won't Be Held For Ransom By Usyk; We Could Vacate All The Belts

[thack]

The WBC and Hearn should keep quiet here . Hearn was encouraging Uysk to go for the Heavyweight title and now for his own greed he's trying to stop him......complete shytster.
The WBC are and have always been a band of crooks , like father like son!

[observer]

I hate it when promoters and boxers are using media to negotiate with each other. The message is intended for Usyk and his team, but it gets on the nerves of hundreds of thousands of people as a side effect.

Personally, I don't believe Joshua would drop 'all the belts' to make a point. Hearn and Joshua will do whatever they can get away with. They'll either cut a deal with Usyk or drop WBO belt. Given how much money is at stake, most likely there will be a deal.

Also, what's the point in saying Usyk wants a percentage of the fight if we don't know what that percentage is? Percentage of the purse is not bigger than a fixed step away fee by definition. And why is Hearns referring as a source to what he 'heard someone say'?

Guess we all just need to be a bit philosophical about all this and wait...

[_Rexy_]

If that happens and Joshua has to vacate the belt, then Usyk wins the vacant belt. Then Usyk would be a paper champ and I wouldn’t recognise that “belt” in any way lol

Do you recognize the vacant belts Joshua picked up?

[Bob]

More bs from the used car salesman.

[kafkod]

If I were Usyk, I would leave matchroom after that sort of statement. Insane.....absolutely insane that a promoter would say that about one of his own fighters

Joshua should just fight Usyk while Fury gives Wilder the rematch he agreed to.

The winners can then fight for undisputed with nothing hanging over their heads.

As usual Hearn is making it more complicated than it has to be.

Yeah, I don't get it either. TBH I don't see how anyone can watch this situation and want to sign with Matchroom.

If anything it definitely shows heavy favouritism under Hearn. If someone is the mandatory, they’ve earned it, especially when unifying the belts from the division below. I can understand British talent signing with matchroom but after this I don’t see why anyone else would do it.

After Usyk won the WBSS tournament and united all the belts at CW in the summer of 2018, Eddie Hearn, Oleksandr, and AJ put their heads together and came up with a brilliant plan.

Usyk would sign a 3 fight deal with Matchroom. He would then make one defense of his unified CW titles against Tony Bellew in London, before relinquishing them and announcing his move up to HW, thereby, as per WBO rules, becoming AJ's immediate WBO mandatory challenger. He would then have one warm up fight in his new division before facing AJ, either towards the end of 2019 or early in 2020, in front of 90K boozed up, Sweet Caroline singing fans at a sold out Wembley Stadium.

What could possibly go wrong?

[kafkod]

If I was English at this point, I'd probably sign with Warren. He's got the Top Rank deal in the USA which would make fights easier to get. Hearn is just Matchroom/DAZN and half the time he can't even get two of his own fighters to fight each other.

You ever wonder why that is?

You think maybe he might be telling the truth when he says that Matchroom fighters don't work for him, he works for them?

[kafkod]

How is that remotely making sense ? Hearn isn’t in control of Fury so how could he force him to fight Wilder ?

Contrary to what some of these jokers think, Hearn isn't in control of AJ either.

[REDEEMER]

Contrary to what some of these jokers think, Hearn isn't in control of AJ either.

Hearn advises AJ but ultimately he makes the decision. Both McCracken and Hearn advised him not to take that Ruiz fight on short notice just because of the style but he decided to try and save the MSG card and went ahead with it .

[tophat1]

If I were Usyk, I would leave matchroom after that sort of statement. Insane.....absolutely insane that a promoter would say that about one of his own fighters

Spot on, Eddie probably signed him thinking he could stall him so he could make the title fights he wants. He would have been delighted if chisora would have beat him.

I think he signed Ortiz for a similar reason.i think Ortiz was above wlad in the wba rankings and the Aj wlad fight wouldn't have involved the wba if Ortiz hadn't agreed to step aside

[_Rexy_]

You ever wonder why that is?

You think maybe he might be telling the truth when he says that Matchroom fighters don't work for him, he works for them?

No. I don't think any promoter is ever telling the truth.