Quote Originally Posted by Beanz View Post
In early April Finkel said

‘We are prepared to meet as soon as possible, anywhere, anytime, and when I meet Matchroom [Joshua’s promoters] I will have the authority to make the deal. It’s for the better for everybody, and the sport. Unless someone has another agenda. We are ready. Let’s make the fight.’

So why did he not turn up?

Where is Haymon agreeing to show Hearn the money? A cellphone shot on Instagram. I can't see anything anywhere from Haymon.


So Hearn replies to Wiler's e-mail

"we are very interested in making this fight, please send us a draft contract"

and the reply from Wilder's team ?


"you have to accept the fight and then we will send you the contract"


It's not misdirection to ask for a draft contract at all. It's perfectly normal.
I agree with you here. Except they've already dealt with Eddie “negotiating” in bad faith. So because they’ve dealt with Eddie negotiating in bad faith already they want one concession, to agree to the money. The money they asked for. (Perhaps you recall Eddie saying Wilder’s camp never contacts them so Finkell called into the radio show he was on and called BS, and Eddie never said they didn’t try to contact him again because it was BS. Then they “negotiated” for one day. And went on to make the Parker fight as everyone knew would happen. That’s negotiating in bad faith)

Notice you don’t see Eddie saying “we need to see the money” anymore. That is because Haymon agreed to show him the money. Now instead he says he needs to see how they intend to generate money from the fight. He would see that in negotiations. If he doesn’t like where the money comes from he can say so then. He’s invented a problem before a problem existed.

All he has to agree to is the money they asked for. To demonstrate genuine interest. Of course they want proof of interest since he’s already burned them wasting their time.

Deontay’s entire team is in New York ready to meet, including Wilder. Hearn is in New York. Just agree to the money and get it started. Remember they said they “would agree tomorrow” if offered 50 million. We’re on day 3 and still they haven’t agreed to simply the money.

Eddie says he wants to meet. To meet all he has to do is agree to the money they asked for. He won’t do that. Yet people believe he wants to meet. It’s maddening.

Let’s look at it a different way. A simple agreement to the money for the fight is not binding. Why not agree to it to call their bluff? If they said no to the meeting still we have answers, all the answers. Who then is keeping us from having all the answers? And who keeps raising more questions?