The Wilder Excuses Begin

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Shelly Finkel, co-manager and negotiation representative of Deontay Wilder has promised Eddie Hearn the $50m offer made to Anthony Joshua is a genuine one.

Wilder emailed a $50m guarantee to Joshua on Wednesday evening for a massive undisputed unification clash in Las Vegas this year.
Upon receiving the deal, Hearn revealed his scepticism of how realistic their intentions were, only for Finkel to speak directly to Sky Sports Head of Boxing Adam Smith on the matter to confirm it was.
"We want (Anthony Joshua) to fight Deontay in his next fight and we offered him $50m," Finkel told Sky Sports.
"If he accepts it, it will be there. Al Haymon and I have never not delivered what we've offered."
On Joshua's previous comments that he would accept a straight $50m purse for the encounter, Finkel added: "If he doesn't accept, 97% of the fans will ask whether he really wants to take this fight.
"We were offered $12.5m (£8.8m) to fight him but we have offered four times that. If he says he is not going to take $50m, it means he doesn't really want to fight him next.
"It was $50m against 50 per cent. He said, 'get me $50m against 50 per cent and I'll take it the next day, I swear'."
The ball is now firmly in Joshua's court as the deadline of Friday morning (UK time) looms as Hearn prepares to meet with Finkel in New York.
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Joshua would not only get $50m but whatever the final Pay-Per-View outcome of the fight amounted to, which depends on the promotion and pricing of the event.
The T-Mobile Arena in Nevada is the favored venue to maximise revenue for what would be the biggest heavyweight fight since Lennox Lewis and Mike Tyson shared the ring in 2002.
Fans are waiting with baited breath for Joshua to decide whether he will adhere to Wilder's terms having previously offered only $12.5m himself.
Any agreement late on Thursday should be enough to fend off the advances of Alexander Povetkin and promoter Andrey Ryabinskiy, who want a WBA mandatory chance confirmed through a scheduled May 4 purse bid.

http://www.worldboxingnews.net/2018/...on-is-at-stake

[Gandalf]

50 million will mean his family won't starve. Surely Joshua has to think of his family and take the fight. Surely they can compromise and have the fight somewhere neutral like Texas.

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Wilder KO 7 UNLESS LITTLE ANTHONY MAKES EXCUSES

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Basically Wilders consortium claim that Al Haymon can guarantee the money side of things and that it'll be in Vegas.

VERY Clever move and they've called Joshuas bluff big time here, problem is that AJ is under a strict and unbreakable contract to honour his tv rights.

If that hurdle can be overcome and everything coming out of the USA is infact true then AJ has to take this offer or he's gonna look like he's the one dodging Wilder.


Wilders Instagram video to AJ
https://www.instagram.com/p/BiAcB1SH...y=bronzebomber

[Beanz]

Basically Wilders consortium claim that Al Haymon can guarantee the money side of things and that it'll be in Vegas.

VERY Clever move and they've called Joshuas bluff big time here, problem is that AJ is under a strict and unbreakable contract to honour his tv rights.

If that hurdle can be overcome and everything coming out of the USA is infact true then AJ has to take this offer or he's gonna look like he's the one dodging Wilder.


Wilders Instagram video to AJ
https://www.instagram.com/p/BiAcB1SH...y=bronzebomber

God Wilder sounds like a retard. I don't think they have the money at all, it's just a way of avoiding meeting up with Hearn and being held to a real deal. If it happens then great but the lack of a rematch clause etc sets alarm bells ringing. Something not right there. Why would they throw away the chance of a lucrative rematch? Why did they say nothing for like two weeks?

[Master]

Basically Wilders consortium claim that Al Haymon can guarantee the money side of things and that it'll be in Vegas.

VERY Clever move and they've called Joshuas bluff big time here, problem is that AJ is under a strict and unbreakable contract to honour his tv rights.

If that hurdle can be overcome and everything coming out of the USA is infact true then AJ has to take this offer or he's gonna look like he's the one dodging Wilder.


Wilders Instagram video to AJ
https://www.instagram.com/p/BiAcB1SH...y=bronzebomber

God Wilder sounds like a retard. I don't think they have the money at all, it's just a way of avoiding meeting up with Hearn and being held to a real deal. If it happens then great but the lack of a rematch clause etc sets alarm bells ringing. Something not right there. Why would they throw away the chance of a lucrative rematch? Why did they say nothing for like two weeks?

They were trying to raise the money, think Titofan helped.

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This is what i can't understand about Wilders team claiming the money is all set and in place.......

This fight (In Vegas) generates money mostly by TV revenue and ticket sales...

Wilder can't even sell out the Barclays centre and against Ortiz pulled in just over 14,000

Wilder isn't (yet) Box Office and he's with Showtime and like fuck are they fronting up the cash for this

Joshua is not box office (yet) in the USA

So basically who in the USA is actually fronting all this money?

I'd like it to be true because i want to see AJ v Wilder next while both are in their prime but i just cannot see where the $$$$ is coming from?

[Memphis]

On the face of it, Joshua must accept the offer, in principle at least. You could argue that he already has with his lets roll comment, how formal does it need to be? I for one wanted them to come back with an actual counter offer rather than a request for more money. They on the face of it at least have done that. The toss can be argued over all manner of nonsense but the fact remains, Joshua said give me $50 million, they've said OK.

The numbers side of things are still a mystery to me. Wilder's mob started peddling the $100 million dollar fight line but if they plan on genuinely giving AJ $50 million, they'll need a hell of a lot more than that. I've accused the $100 million club of wanting all of the money from all of the revenue sources from both sides of the pond all at the same time. If Wilder, or anyone else for that matter is considering getting paid, they'll need all that dough and then some.