Bob Arum Wants to Delay The Wilder/Fury Rematch

[Bmore18]

Hasn't Breazeale agreed to fight Whyte? Why is he still mentioned as Wilder's next alternative fight?

Publicly he has shown interest in it, but fight hasnt been announced/formalized at all. The Breazeale-Whyte WBC order was contingent on Wilder/Fury2 happening I believe, so he can still serve as Wilder's mandatory on May 18. Also its the easiest for Showtime to make happen on that date

[Biolink]

Ughh...

We know Fury isn't fighting anyone good.

Hopeully its Wilder-Whyte over Wilder-Brezeale, but I doubt it as long as Brezeale has been waiting, and Wilder-Breeze already have drama so there you go

[pillowfists98]

Bob is just pointing out the obvious. Unless they can figure out a way to please ESPN and Showtime the fight won't happen.

[N/A]

And what happens if/when DAZN/Sky Sports win the purse bid against Fury? Then what? Will ESPN just let him fight on that network as well as BT Sports? If he wants a title, then easy, go fight Wilder next. That fight has already been ordered.

If any of these three fight each other now, the broadcast situation will be very complicated.

Maybe they'll just never fight each other. PBC, Top Rank and DAZN will all have their own heavyweight champion.

[KTFOKING]

If any of these three fight each other now, the broadcast situation will be very complicated.

Maybe they'll just never fight each other. PBC, Top Rank and DAZN will all have their own heavyweight champion.

Top Rank is going to need one of their fighters to get a belt. Pulev nor Rivas are the ones that will get a title, unless Joshua vacates. This is why if they want one badly, they have a chance to get it with the Wilder fight.

[N/A]

Top Rank is going to need one of their fighters to get a belt.

Fury is lineal champion.

[KTFOKING]

Fury is lineal champion.

Meh, they will still need one of the four world titles.

[lolpz]

But somehow Haymon and PBC will get the blame like always.

Everyone knows the Arum is the anti-fan promoter. He never makes the big fights happen, in fact he destroys them.


Hearn, Haymon, and Golden Boy are the ones who are delivering the big fights.

[N/A]

Meh, they will still need one of the four world titles.

they'll get one eventually when joshua vacates, but in the meantime they'll push the **** out of lineal. remember arum orchestrated that whole lineal run with foreman with no real belts.

[bballchump11]

Sucks that the fight isn't happening. Though I do find it funny people are blaming Arum for this.

Is he supposed to pass up making money so someone else can make money? I want to see the best fights too but for some reason, people think the solution is to create a monopoly instead of having people actually working together.

If the fight doesn't happen, it's because Arum AND Haymon didn't work together. Not that it's Arum's fault because he signed Fury.

Monopolies are bad for consumers normally, but not in sports. Monopolies are bad for fighters, but good for fans.

The competition in sports allow fighters to get good deals and better treatment, but not the events fans want. The NBA getting a monopoly on basketball was good for the fans.

The UFC getting a monopoly on MMA was good for fans. We didn't have to cry for Brock Lesnar vs Fedor type fights anymore, or the NBA champs vs the ABA champs.