Wilder v Fury 2 - Las Vegas

[TitoFan]

Obviously I'm gonna wait until there's confirmation the rematch is off before I weigh in too much. So far I've only seen the supermarket tabloids from across the pond jockeying for who gets the most shocking headline. It's why I've never fancied the National Enquirer.

Presuming it IS true however..... I guess maybe we should begin changing our focus as fans of the sport of boxing. Who gives a damn about actual fights anyway? It's much better to focus on how much so-and-so makes..... how big a contract he landed..... who's avoiding whom...... who trash-talks better on the media..... and all the sordid details that in past nobody gave a flying one about. Here we had the perfect antidote to the heavyweight doldrums we had to suffer through during the Reign of Wlad. A rematch between two guys who gave us an entertaining, exciting heavyweight title fight. So if it doesn't happen, it gets scrapped into the "It Was Too Good To Be True" garbage bin.

Let's hope it's just a bunch of Fake News.

[Master]

Fury believes the deal makes a rematch with Deontay Wilder "more makeable".

[Memphis]

Yeah social media going mad with it today. What it all means I don't know, but what is sure is that any of the content I've seen that has come from the horses mouth (Warren) has been ever so slightly distancing themselves from the Wilder fight.

Great move for Tyson. Ballsy move by ESPN I guess. Tyson's fights are generally pretty uninspiring. He can't come back from the dead every fight.

[Kirkland Laing]

So that's Haymon, Arum/Warren and Eddie Hearn all with one of the top three heavyweights. Making fights between any of these three is going to be dead easy now. Hahahahahahahaha.

[Freedom]

If the Wilder fight can't be made, Jennings and/or Pulev (both of whom have promotional agreements with Top Rank) may be fighting Fury in the months to come.

[Kirkland Laing]

The thing that gets me about this is ESPN handing out potentially $80 million to one fighter for a few fights. They've gone from let's be kind and call them second rate domestic level Friday Night Fights to this at a time when they're getting eaten alive by falling ratings, cable cutters, streaming and all the rest of it.

[Fenster]

The thing that gets me about this is ESPN handing out potentially $80 million to one fighter for a few fights. They've gone from let's be kind and call them second rate domestic level Friday Night Fights to this at a time when they're getting eaten alive by falling ratings, cable cutters, streaming and all the rest of it.

That 3 fight deal was either 9 fights or 6 fights over three years at the AJ-Miller press conference yesterday (no rival face "in the know" took it serious).

As for ESPN - they weren't exclusively with BOB's stable and PPV until now.