Comments Thread For: Hearn Cautions The WBO: Fury-Joshua is Bigger Than The Belts

[OnlytheTruth]

Hearn is good at promoting fights, has done well with AJ. But he's made a lot of promises to other fighters that were just hot air. Probably told Usyk he had to sign with him to get an AJ shot. Now he's denied him that shot, he also is trying to make sure Usyk doesn't get a vacant title fight with somebody else, and he's pushing Usyk not to ask for too much money in a step aside deal.

Its K2 and Matchroom that are working his career, really but can't fault what you posted. Hearn dangled Joshua to Wilder, but as long as he took on a.nother Matchroom fighter aka Dillian Whyte first which would have sold well in the UK, IMO.

WBO rules to put Usyk as mandatory is a little short sighted though. Usyk entered the division a bit late to the party. Joshua, Wilder and Fury were all vying for #1 spot and big payday fights. He's too small and too late to make any real impact IMO; Bridgerweight is a better choice for him, I reckon.

[kafkod]

Hearn is good at promoting fights, has done well with AJ. But he's made a lot of promises to other fighters that were just hot air. Probably told Usyk he had to sign with him to get an AJ shot. Now he's denied him that shot, he also is trying to make sure Usyk doesn't get a vacant title fight with somebody else, and he's pushing Usyk not to ask for too much money in a step aside deal.

Hearn didn't deny Usyk his shot. Eddie isn't some all powerful puppet master with AJ, Fury, Usyk and the alphabet orgs dangling on his strings. Usyk would have had his shot by now if AJ hadn't lost to Ruiz and boxing hadn't been shut down by the corona virus.

AJ is fighting Fury next, and he was going to do that whether Hearn wanted him to or not. Usyk isn't even with Matchroom any more, his 3 fight deal ended with the Chisora fight. It was supposed to end with him fighting AJ for the WBO, WBA and IBF titles, but what happened, happened.

[Froch_uppercut]

Its K2 and Matchroom that are working his career, really but can't fault what you posted. Hearn dangled Joshua to Wilder, but as long as he took on a.nother Matchroom fighter aka Dillian Whyte first which would have sold well in the UK, IMO.

WBO rules to put Usyk as mandatory is a little short sighted though. Usyk entered the division a bit late to the party. Joshua, Wilder and Fury were all vying for #1 spot and big payday fights. He's too small and too late to make any real impact IMO; Bridgerweight is a better choice for him, I reckon.

"Hearn dangled Wilder to Joshua."

He didn't "dangle" anything. He tried like F to make the fight and Wilder S**t himself even when offered $100,000,000.00.
Wilder's character has since proven he is a liar and a coward.

[removed]

All the belts belong to Fury anyway.

[TexasCowBoy]

One face, one name, one champion. And Ducktay Whiner isn't in the running you gotta love it. Karma is a bítch and her stripper name is Tyson Fury.

Hahaha.......

[OnlytheTruth]

"Hearn dangled Wilder to Joshua."

He didn't "dangle" anything. He tried like F to make the fight and Wilder S**t himself even when offered $100,000,000.00.
Wilder's character has since proven he is a liar and a coward.

Don't disagree with you. It was a figure of speech - but he did use Whyte as a 'first hurdle'.

I thought it was $120m

[Cool Scant]

If both are paying £1.5M which is 3%. Then both will be guaranteed about £50M. But AJ fans lie and claim he was paid $85M for Ruiz II. A$$ Juice also refused $50M for wilder or undisputed could've happened 3 years ago.

[boxingforeal]

hearns is bs and just a shrewd promoter. its usyk's rights and wbo should honour it, otherwise theyll be no better than wbc. and if they need to side step him then pay him his dues first, otherwise being mandatory means even less than it already does, which isnt much. hearns, not all of us are fools. we just hope the sanctioning bodies do the right and put promoters in their spot.

[JakeTheBoxer]

It is. The winner will be the man in this division.

[Bob]

Apparently he went alot further & was suggesting getting rid if all the belts & the 300k per belt they have to pay. Also mentioned the ring belt & ranking system moving forward.
In the current situation they've already bypassed Usyk twice so he has to be next or drop the belt.
As a boxing fan it's about time we had an undesputed heavyweight champ & i hope its Fury & i hope he then dumps all the belts & keeps lineal & the ring.
Then watch all the B-sides scurry after the pointless trinkets & call themselves champ. Gtfoh! Maggots