Comments Thread For: Hearn: Joshua Will Decide Rematch Location - NOT Andy Ruiz

[Curtis Harper]

If he wasn’t hurt, why did he QUIT?!? was he sad about getting pushed down? Did it give him another anxiety attack?

The only answer we all can agree to is AJ wasn't hurt.

[_Rexy_]

The only answer we all can agree to is AJ wasn't hurt.

Nobody in their right mind is agreeing to that, and you’re the only one saying that.

[Curtis Harper]

Nobody in their right mind is agreeing to that, and you’re the only one saying that.

You do know what a hurt fighter looks like and how they act, yes ???? I posted examples of the opposite

[kafkod]

They don't want to wake up from the dream....To them it's better to lose the titles by ''not taking any shlt'' than in the ring.

Again, hopefully Andy keeps his word.

They want to go bed and have wet dreams about the leader of their crazy cult owning boxing and being too smart for Fast Eddie.

Haymon being smarter, wealthier, and more powerful than everybody else is what they get off on, not good fights happening in the ring.

[Corelone]

Yeah madness, i'm also unsure why Ruiz is so reluctant to fight in the UK, he already stopped Joshua once, he should be confident he can do the same again.

A lot of US fighters seem to have this mental block about fighting outside the US, as if there is some foreign bias out to get them.

Like AJ didn't leave home until he sucked that teat dry.

[Curtis Harper]

They want to go bed and have wet dreams about the leader of their crazy cult owning boxing and being too smart for Fast Eddie.

Haymon being smarter, wealthier, and more powerful than everybody else is what they get off on, not good fights happening in the ring.

When AJ retrieves his belts from Andy.....there won't be enough suicide hot line operators to answer the phone.

[kafkod]

When AJ retrieves his belts from Andy.....there won't be enough suicide hot line operators to answer the phone.

Nah .. they would drop Ruiz like a hot potato and say it was all part of Haymon's plan to make Wilder vs AJ a 4million+ PPV selling mega fight on Showtime!

[Oldskoolg]

195 posts.....wow

[Curtis Harper]

Nah .. they would drop Ruiz like a hot potato and say it was all part of Haymon's plan to make Wilder vs AJ a 4+million PPV selling mega fight on Showtime!

Yeah, they will be shltting excuses on top of excuses.....just before eating that anthrax burrito with a note saying
''We were kings for a day...........''

[Granath]

If it was as easy as that to get out of a rematch clause with an A side fighter, there would be no point having them!

Matchroom/AJ/DAZN will be using the best contract lawyers money can hire, people who are specialists in drawing up fight contracts, with years of experience in the field.

If Ruiz refuses to honour his contract he won't be able to defend his titles or even keep his fee for the first fight until the whole business has been settled in court, and it would very likely go against him, leaving him with no titles, no purse, and a huge legal bill to pay.

Again, without knowing all the contract provisions there's no way to tell. But contract attorneys worth their salt know that the enforcement of one agreement to make another means there's a lot of wiggle room. Then when you add in different contract law from different countries, the sanctioning bodies themselves...it's not hard to see that it's not nearly as cut-and-dried as some here present it.

BTW, Ruiz walking away from the rematch clause in no way hinders his ability to defend his belts. Only the sanctioning bodies can do that. The only relief a court could offer is financial in the loss that they may sustain by the fight not happening. They have no ability to provide relief to actually make the fight happen. Even the sanctioning bodies would fight AJ/Hearn on that as they possess that control and will not give it up. Filing an injunction to prevent Ruiz from fighting someone else and defending his belts would be likely be laughed out of court.

So why do the rematches happen? Because it's in everyone's financial interest for them to do so. In general a challenger's biggest payoff is going to be the former champion. The sanctioning bodies tend to like it as well (bigger fees for them too!). Fighting AJ again is probably Ruiz' biggest available payday and carries no risk of a long and costly legal dispute over the financial loss AJ/Hearn would suffer if Ruiz didn't give them a rematch. That's why the rematch will happen - it's all about the Benjamins. Where it will happen will depend on how resistant Ruiz is to going to the UK.