If Deontay's team are all in New York waiting to meet, than why don't they meet Hearn and then tell everybody that he refused their offer, even after meeting them? What have they possibly got to lose by meeting? By refusing to discuss things face to face, or even offer a draft contract or outline, Wilder's team are making themselves look unprofessional, and losing any upper hand they may have believed they had.

Hearn and Joshua are hrdly wasting anyone's time by suggesting that they meet and hammer out a contract. Hearn and Matchroom are not some inexperienced new kids on the block fudging their way thru. They have a proven track record of putting together fights and shows on an international scale, but It seems that Wilders team are just being churlish and want to be seen to have the upper hand, because they know they really are not the A side here. Haymon may be, but he is simply the advisor, whereas Wilder thinks that he is something he is not. He is not the draw he thinks he is, and it irks. That is why he would not come to the UK for Joshua's last fight, and why he does not want to come and fight away from home.

We are used to it here in the UK. Everyone expects us to travel, and even when our fighters do, they still expect people to pay for PPV at a time in the morning most American boxing fans would never accept.