Who is lying?

[Master]

Wilder would fight all of them Fenster and tried to fight Povetkin. Wilder is the hungry one of the 3. One ballooned up to the size of a brontosaurus, the other fights safety first. Meanwhile Wilder knocks people out. He is the dangerous fighter of the 3 and will overwhelm both IMO. It's like with Prime Pac, you can try and outbox him but he is going to explode and put you down several times along the way. Wilder just needs to connect and they fall.

How come Wilder never fought Wlad?

Wlad that nearly beat AJ would have beaten Wilder.

[smashup]

This entire thread is just if's, buts and maybes.
Yes AJ or Hearn didn't want the Wilder fight when it was offered, for whatever reason, timing, conditions....
What we can be sure of is that it can't have been about the Money which was massive.
AJ has fought the better opposition compared to Wilder and Fury - no doubt about it.
I see ways that every one of them beats the other 2.
None of us know who will come out as the top fighter of the three until they get in the ring and fight.
Smart money would be on AJ as far as I'm concerned.

[TitoFan]

Whole lotta posts about who's better.... who's fought the better opposition.... blah, blah, blah.

Who cares. There's plenty of threads on that.

All I said was that Fury had made AJ look bad by doing something AJ was unable or unwilling to do......... come to an agreement to fight Wilder, and even in the U.S. to boot.

[Gandalf]

Joshua has become mechanical in his last few fights and lacks stamina. If Wlad at 55 can have him on the retreat for several rounds Wilder will have him on the floor again and again. He has the legs, the power, the combos. It will be messy. Who wanted that fight and who is fighting Fury first? Wlad was always chinny and that was the difference once he had gassed again. He always gets chinny when exhausted. Just too old and Toney schooled him in sparring too when he was meant to be good. Vitali was the real deal, Wlad less so.

[powerpuncher]

People are constantly overrating the HWs. I could buy into the fact that AJ had better competition than Wilder, but Parker and Whyte aren’t really much better than Stiverne and Arreola. None of them are good anyways.

[Fenster]

Parker and Whyte are prime guys with ambition, something Wilder and Fury have been kept away from.

Fury and Wilder really haven't proved they're much in front of the pack, they both have one good win which props them up, but overall their records are very weak.

Of the current top 10 heavyweights (The Ring) Fury has fought ZERO and Wilder ONE!

I'm not certain they beat any of a dozen heavyweights let alone AJ. And likewise he's not certain to beat Povetkin and a few others.

[powerpuncher]

Parker and Whyte are prime guys with ambition, something Wilder and Fury have been kept away from.

Fury and Wilder really haven't proved they're much in front of the pack, they both have one good win which props them up, but overall their records are very weak.

Of the current top 10 heavyweights (The Ring) Fury has fought ZERO and Wilder ONE!

I'm not certain they beat any of a dozen heavyweights let alone AJ. And likewise he's not certain to beat Povetkin and a few others.

I don’t necessarily disagree, but I feel the same about AJ. None of the three do I feel super confident that they beat any other top HW. I still think Wilder beats AJ but I’m not that confident. If AJ proves me wrong then so be it. I feel like all three need to do quite a bit more to prove they’re at that next level and not just a good fighter among at best average HWs

[Fenster]

That's basically what i'm saying.

The winner of Wilder-AJ-Fury would clearly be the standout king of the heavyweights but there's so much more for these guys to prove yet. These are young guys in their prime, with constant new challengers emerging, not old guys who have proved it all already.

One good win doesn't make you a great.

[Spicoli]

Be interested to see Wilder focus through his biggest build up in career. Until Ortiz who has nowhere near the "charisma" and give and take media wise of Fury, Wilder has faced last minute replacements for 2 years. Both AJ and Wilder are positioned for great momentum off spectacular wins, but I really believe if one runs the risk of overlooking next opponent it leans heavier to Wilder.

[Primo Carnera]

So the original question is "Who is Lying?" Answer - ALL OF THEM !!!!!! they're all full of shit, they all have their own agendas and they're all kidding the public into thinking these are mega fights. I could go through each person in the scenario individually and tell you how they're lying, but
a. I don't want to bore you all, and
b. I can't be fucked!
At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter who's lying , Whatever actually happens in the ring is what we should focus on.

[brocktonblockbust]

I think Wilder was going to smoke a jay and then smoke AJ

but Tyson Fury smokes Wilder with an uppercut in the fifth round that we will be talking about for years to come

[TitoFan]

I sure hope he doesn't miss with that uppercut because we all know where it's going to land next.

[ono]

In my opinion Joshua is the best of the 3. He is the most consistent, has the wider range of attributes and has fought much better opposition than either Wilder or Fury. Despite being erratic, I think Wilder is the second best. Not in terms of technical ability, but in terms of the overall package. Fury is the most fluid, but that is as much down to style as anything else. It's easy to look light on your toes when you're facing limited threat. Against Klitschko, we saw a much more herky-jerky sort of performance. Weirdly, as time as gone by, his performance in the Wlad fight has been elevated to the point where it matches the actual achievement, which isn't quite try. The idea that he boxed Wlad's head off is an absolute myth. He literally out-landed him by around 3 punches per round. Regardless, it was a great win. One minor thing that irks me is that people directly compare Joshua's performance against Wlad with Fury's and then use it to highlight Fury's superiority. It's a weak argument because it ignores the fact that styles make fights and it also totally doesn't take into consideration the intangibles of the fight. For example, it ignores the fact that Joshua was ahead on the cards and had just put Wlad down when he got caught himself going for the finish. Fury never came close to even taking a risk in his fight so he was never likely to be put in that situation. Joshua almost has a responsibility to put on a show and the fact that he does is such a big reason for him being an absolute mega star. Anyway, my thoughts are that both Wilder and Joshua are too much for even a peal Fury. Too much aggression and neither would show anywhere near the same hesitancy as Wlad did. Wilder, in particular is a stylistic nightmare for Fury IMO. As for Wilder - Joshua, I think Joshua is the better fighter, but I think it's hard to pick against Wilder landing something so it's so hard to call. If pushed, i'd go with Wilder, but I still think Joshua is the better fighter. As I said earlier, styles make fights.

[ono]

With regards to what the OP is asking with "who is lying?" to me it is blatantly obvious what Finkel and Wilder have been doing over the last 4 months or so. To the point where I would actually question the sanity of anybody who believes otherwise. Looking at the situation factually, using information that has been confirmed by the parties involved, I will try and wade through the bullshit in the clearest way possible.

I'll start with the biggest issue and that is the "fact" that Hearn/Joshua turned down $50m to fight Wilder. I don't actually know where to start with this one because there are so many holes in the whole thing. Firstly, the biggest red flag and the biggest indicator that the offer was a publicity stunt is the fact that the offer was that the money was being fronted by BT Sport, with the catch being the fight would be broadcast on BT Sport (confirmed by Warren in a recent interview with Boxing Social or Boxing Kingdom - can't remember which one. If that isn't enough to tell you that the offer isn't serious, I don't know what to tell you. Every man and his dog knows that Hearn works exclusively with Sky Sports in the UK and Joshua, at the time of the offer, still had 6 months remaining on his Sky deal, meaning he couldn't legally fight on BT Sport until December. But given that Joshua has been with SKY and Matchroom since turning pro, it was very obvious that he would be signing a new deal with them, particularly given the state of play with DAZN - He has since signed a new deal. Now this new information has emerged, it makes total sense as to why Finkel wouldn't explain where the money was coming from (he lead people into believing Showtime and Haymon were fronting the money, and Espinosa from Showtime sort of joined in without saying anything too committal). It also makes sense as to why Finkel flat out refused to send a contract or even meet to discuss the offer (because the first thing discussed at this meeting or the first thing listed in the contract would be the broadcaster/funding source). Imagine refusing to actually meet someone to discuss a deal, when the person you have offered the deal to has come back and said they're very interested.

Aside from the offer, there are plenty of inconsistencies in how Finkel apparently does business when doing business with Fury vs how he wanted to do business with Joshua. For example, he couldn't get his old head around the fact that a fight can be signed without a venue or date (this was his excuse for not signing the Joshua contract). However, he is fine with the Fury fight having no venue or date. Weird. He also tried to perpetuate the myth that fighters agree to fights before seeing a contract, yet sent Fury a contract BEFORE Fury agreed to the fight (listen to Fury's comments post Pianetta fight...something along the lines of "they called, I answered, they asked me to fight, I said send me a contract, they sent one and then I said YES"). Again, Finkel had a huge problem with sending Joshua a contract with prior agreement (although what I said earlier explains why). Furthermore, Finkel has tried to draw attention to the fact that Joshua didn't physically sign the latest contract, yet later admitted in an interview with The Boxing Voice that he knows only Hearn's signature is necessary to make the fight. Again, he knew this anyway as he was involved in the Joshua - Klitschko negotiation. Finally, he's also tried to perpetuate the myth that Hearn begged the WBA to call the mandatory. The WBA actually called the mandatory in the first week of April. By the end of June, Hearn was 8 weeks overdue on making the Povetkin fight. The WBA probably would have allowed him an extra few weeks had Finkel not done the interview with Dan Rafael where he stated that on the 26th June, he still needed 4 days to send comments back to Hearn on a contract he actually agreed to on the 12th June. He stated that the comments were minor but wouldn't divulge what they were.

At this exact point, Wilder then posted a tweet @'ing the WBA, demanding that they strip Joshua for not making the Povetkin fight. Ask yourself, is this the actions of a man who wants to face Joshua for all of the belts? Anyway, after going down the Povetkin route, Hearn then publicly declared that the previously agreed deal was still on the table, plus an additional offer for Wilder to make $5m for fighting any top 15 fighter. After declaring that there was no cut off date on the offer, Wilder changed his demands from whatever he had previously agreed to "50-50 or nothing" in a deliberate ploy to price himself out.

At this point, it is worth stating that Fury has recently come out and explained how easy it was to negotiate with Wilder/Finkel and how negotiations had taken no time at all. However, Frank Warren, in the same interview where he talked about the BT $50m offer, also admitted that negotiations for a Wilder/Fury fight had actually started in June, which by my calculations was roughly the exact same point in time where Finkel and Wilder started self-sabotaging the Joshua deal. How odd.

[nuggetdotcom]

Regardless of who's lying AJ has fought stronger opposition than Wilder and Fury put together.

AJ's best five opponents to date

Wlad
Parker
Whyte
Povetkin*
Takam/Breazeale

Wilder's best five

Ortiz
Stiverne
Arreola
Duhaupas
Molina/Scott

Fury's best five

Wlad
Chisora
Cunningham
Hammer
Kingpin/Fat John

Name THREE fighters from Wilder and Fury's opposition combined who can replace names on AJ's record? I'll start with Ortiz.

Next?

Not disputing the fact that AJ's conquests look better, but the now fact is that Fury has stepped in first, albeit risky to some, to fight Wilder, who in my humble opinion is a hype job who cannot box. Fair gamble I would say.