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Quote Originally Posted by Gandalf View Post
Povetkin was up at the time of the stoppage. Wilder will destroy him. All this praise for Joshua but he was losing to an old man like Wilder and needed to pull out a stoppage. Most of the Brits were laughing at Wilder, but here saying 'Woah, look at Joshua go'. But that is yet another fight where Joshua looked scared, robotic and lost. Wilder will be licking his lips.
Fury has pulled off the best deal, he beats over hypo Wilder easily and can name his price for Joshua. Serves Hearn right for not taking the easy Wilder payday.

Fury, Joshua, Povetkin, Whyte all beat Wilder easily, Fury will get the best payday, the others will be on a reducing pecking order.
Joshua will get the best payday from a Wilder fight purely on the basis that he infinitely more popular than Fury and therefore will do at least double the PPV buys in the UK. For comparison, Joshua - Klitschko did 3x the buys of Fury - Klitschko.

As for your assessment of Fury beating Wilder easily.....not happening. Terrible style match up for Fury. He's susceptible to an overhand right and that's Wilder's bread and butter. Furthermore, Fury pulls away with his head up - unfortunately for him, Wilder's power seems to be at the very end of his extension. This is of course without even mentioning the ring rust. He may have got rounds in against Pianeta, but there is a huge difference between setting the pace in a glorified sparring session versus fighting at somebody else's pace, on the back foot, in a much more intense fight.

And with regards to Hearn accepting the easy Wilder payday. It didn't exist. All absolute bollocks. You could write a book on the number of inconsistencies and absolute bollocks spouted by Wilder, Finkel and even Frank Warren. How can you accept a fight without seeing a contract, or without having a discussion? How can you fight on BT when you're contracted to Sky? Why would BT have even paid $50m for the UK rights (As Warren said)? Just to cover that particular point, the PPV would have to do $2m UK buys for BT to break even. For clarity, that's around 2.5x what Mayweather/McGregor did in the UK. How's that going to happen on a 4am fight? It's all bollocks. Just a publicity stunt that falls apart at the slightest bit of investigation.