Its Wilder/Joshua in the UK, or Joshua/Povetkin in the UK
The ball is in Wilder's court
I hope so too, sucks wont be able to see it live! Maybe on the rematch?Thats really disappointing.
I hope Wilder takes it and knocks him out in the first round.
Since AJ wants to take his ball and go home, they need to shell up significantly more money to Wilder.
If it gets signed for the UK Im going to try to push that as a vacation destination to the old lady.I hope so too, sucks wont be able to see it live! Maybe on the rematch?
If it gets signed for the UK Im going to try to push that as a vacation destination to the old lady.
Its Wilder/Joshua in the UK, or Joshua/Povetkin in the UK
The ball is in Wilder's court
Its Wilder/Joshua in the UK, or Joshua/Povetkin in the UK
The ball is in Wilder's court
Its on Hearn and AJ to offer Wilder a significantly good enough deal to back off. Wilder said he would take 40% and go to the UK. The last public offer I heard from Hearn's team was a 12.5 million flat fee offer. That's not gonna get it done when Hearn says the fight is worth 40 million pounds in the UK. Wilder's offer would be paying AJ nearly the entire UK take if it was in the USA.
If it’s a 40m fight then he doesn’t deserve much more than that. What does he bring to the table to deserve 40% or more of the purse; 1 belt and a handful of fans. Joshua is the only guy that has been actively looking at unifying the title
It’s not on hearn/AJ to come back with a huge offer. Wilder will earn peanuts in any other fight compared to this so hearn will just play a waiting game because he holds all of the cards. That’s what’s happening.
The fight will be over here on hearns/Joshua’s terms whether people want to accept it or not. Both guys have had offers that they’ve turned down. Both career high paydays by a huge amount. I laugh at the hypocrisy on here of people picking and choosing who’s ducked who
The waiting game won't do AJ any good IMO. Yeah he can make more fighting the Carlos Takam's of the world, but Dan Rafael and other media people will start getting antsy and writing articles about why he isn't accepting the 50 million offer by that time if it hasn't been resolved. Only the UK media will protect that. Everyone else will wonder why don't they fight wherever makes the most money.
And we're not paying to watch AJ shadow box in there. Both of them together is what makes this an event. IDK if Wilder is worth 40%, but a flat fee offer of 12.5 isn't gonna get it done at all. How big of a paycut do they expect Wilder to take when Wilder is the one offering the better deal by far. They gave Parker around 33%, so I'd start around 35-40 and negotiating more off the top or more on the back depending on where the split lies.
If it’s a 40m fight then he doesn’t deserve much more than that. What does he bring to the table to deserve 40% or more of the purse; 1 belt and a handful of fans. Joshua is the only guy that has been actively looking at unifying the title
It’s not on hearn/AJ to come back with a huge offer. Wilder will earn peanuts in any other fight compared to this so hearn will just play a waiting game because he holds all of the cards. That’s what’s happening.
The fight will be over here on hearns/Joshua’s terms whether people want to accept it or not. Both guys have had offers that they’ve turned down. Both career high paydays by a huge amount. I laugh at the hypocrisy on here of people picking and choosing who’s ducked who
Sorry but anyone who doesnt care whether they see AJ fight Wilder isnt a boxing fan. That is ridiculous.I think the problem here is when Anthony can make 20-30 mill fighting guys like povetkin which are much safer. From a purely business perspective he doesn't need to take that fight (look I really want him to)
Where as a fight against AJ is literally anyone at heavyweights biggest payday by an absolute mile.
Honestly I don't think people here in the UK will care at all about his character if he doesn't fight Deontay.
That's just the situation in my opinion.
Obviously the biggest fight that cam be made is Deontay vs AJ
And in that fighting Deontay would be getting ten times as much as he's ever made. With Anthony not even making double his highest purse.
Read between the lines and it's pretty obvious. Aj does hold every card tgere is.
You're probably right. They would be casuals. But then a lot of these extra fans I think are casuals. And I'm really not saying this to be a dick. But I don't think they know who Deontay is. Hence they don't care.Sorry but anyone who doesnt care whether they see AJ fight Wilder isnt a boxing fan. That is ridiculous.
AJ and Hearn are full of shit, in their attempt to make the narrative that Wilder has a issue with fighting in the UK. When the issue is the bullshit offer they are purposely giving to duck the fight.
That doesnt make any sense considering they turned down the biggest $ offer.If you believe that then your stupid.
They are not ducking or trying to duck, they are trying to gain as much money out of the deal for their side as possible.
Now considering they could lose it all against Wilder is that ducking or being smart businessmen?
............ or again do you think they should just hand everything over to Wilder after all their hard work?
There are two points to this, fans who obviously want this to happen (and it looks like its going to) but also plain stupidness from people who can't appreciate that this is a business negotiation, you can't separate one from the other.
From what both camps are saying, its going to happen in the UK and right now Deontay and Hearn are haggling over the last details of money, Hearn has put out his final offer and put a week timescale on it so now we can reverse it .......... if Deontay doesn't just take the offer he's a coward.
Even if he is being lowballed he'll make it all back in the rematch as he'll be champ?
You see it works both ways.
If you believe that then your stupid.
They are not ducking or trying to duck, they are trying to gain as much money out of the deal for their side as possible.
Now considering they could lose it all against Wilder is that ducking or being smart businessmen?
............ or again do you think they should just hand everything over to Wilder after all their hard work?
There are two points to this, fans who obviously want this to happen (and it looks like its going to) but also plain stupidness from people who can't appreciate that this is a business negotiation, you can't separate one from the other.
From what both camps are saying, its going to happen in the UK and right now Deontay and Hearn are haggling over the last details of money, Hearn has put out his final offer and put a week timescale on it so now we can reverse it .......... if Deontay doesn't just take the offer he's a coward.
Even if he is being lowballed he'll make it all back in the rematch as he'll be champ?
You see it works both ways.