Originally posted by Robbie Barrett
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That’s what he said. Quack, quack.
Hearn’s offer of a “career-high purse” wasn’t simply for Wilder vs. Whyte ... it was for Wilder vs. Whyte WITH options to promote Wilder’s future fights.
Which means Hearn would be promoting both AJ and Wilder, which means Wilder would lose negotiating power for a unification.
Hearn was high-balling an offer for a Whyte fight in order to lowball the big unification and get Wilder on the cheap — and also it would give Hearn the right to dictate things like drug testing (not just who, but how often and at what level of scrutiny) AJ would have to go through.
Wilder wasn’t going to give all that way to make a little extra $$$ on the front end while losing everything on the back end. It would have been idiotic to do so.
Wilder has already fought in the UK, btw, when he nearly decapitated Audley Harrison (not looked upon as a big deal now, but at the time Brits were rating Audley’s chances very high).
So Wilder has fought in AJ’s country. He’s done something to raise his stock int he UK. Time for AJ to come to the USA and try to raise his stock here and make it a WORLD title unification.
And if Whyte is so freaking relevant, why wasn’t Hearn trying to sub him in when Pulev pulled out, or when Pulev originally said he wanted to wait until next year for this fight? Whyte has one semi-relevant win, a split decision over shopworn journeyman Chisora.
The whole thing’s a joke. Go back to AJ and his “Wilder’s too experienced, I need 2 more years to even CONSIDER getting into the ring with him” speech. It says it all.
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