Comments Thread For: Warren: No Surprise Hearn Backtracking on Joshua Fight on 7/9

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[OctoberRed]

He was never going on that date, just Hearn trolling.

[SP4RTICUS]

Boxnation is very good value. they need to up the game in advertising for these events, and they need at least one big uk card a month to attract the casual, otherwise its a failed business model.

[kafkod]

Hearn is just massaging his own ego and trying to play mind games with Warren and Fury.

Warren is his biggest rival, of course, and I don't think he's forgiven Fury for kicking him out of the photo call before Fury/Wlad and getting Mick Hennessy in there instead.

"Excuse me ... how is Eddie the promoter? Come on Mick, get yourself up here mate."

LMFAO!

[LacedUp]

nice line-up by boxnation.

Hopefully they will work on their production sooner rather than later. In that department, Sky just craps all over them.

[skinnystev]

i for one cannot understand the brits fascination with anthony "biblical" joshua essentially he was gifted the gold medal than he was gifted the title that rightly belongs to tyson fury to be the man you got to beat the man something biblical has never done and never will do he has fought a retinue of bums since turning pro he got his paper title off a bum hey brits wake up tyson fury is the world champion . what is the fascination with biblical ? i believe it's a bunch of gay wankers in love with his muscleman persona i mean thats what the gays like right? and evidently thats what they like in the UK draw your own conclusions

[Vinnykin]

i for one cannot understand the brits fascination with anthony "biblical" joshua essentially he was gifted the gold medal than he was gifted the title that rightly belongs to tyson fury to be the man you got to beat the man something biblical has never done and never will do he has fought a retinue of bums since turning pro he got his paper title off a bum hey brits wake up tyson fury is the world champion . what is the fascination with biblical ? i believe it's a bunch of gay wankers in love with his muscleman persona i mean thats what the gays like right? and evidently thats what they like in the UK draw your own conclusions

Anthony Joshua is heavily marketed and is known to the casual audience. Fury doesn't conform to any of this media-driven marketing and turns people off when they just hear snippets of the bad stuff he says. He also has an Olympic gold medal, an MBE for that, and was all over TV during this time. He has been on football shows like Soccer am and his fights are advertised during football games. That's how you get the casual audience and that's the big market in the UK, football fans that have watched a bit of boxing. Joshua has the look and media image to appeal to that audience and Sky are ramming it home at the minute. He's been on BBC radio all morning as well today, BBC radio 5/4/3/1 getting interviewed for each station one after the other, It's ****ing annoying

I believe Boxing purists can see through it all though. It's all irrelevant unless he can beat Fury.

[deathofaclown]

Anthony Joshua is heavily marketed and is known to the casual audience. Fury doesn't conform to any of this media-driven marketing and turns people off when they just hear snippets of the bad stuff he says. He also has an Olympic gold medal, an MBE for that, and was all over TV during this time. He has been on football shows like Soccer am and his fights are advertised during football games. That's how you get the casual audience and that's the big market in the UK, football fans that have watched a bit of boxing. Joshua has the look and media image to appeal to that audience and Sky are ramming it home at the minute. He's been on BBC radio all morning as well today, BBC radio 5/4/3/1 getting interviewed for each station one after the other, It's ****ing annoying

I believe Boxing purists can see through it all though. It's all irrelevant unless he can beat Fury.

This is about right. 90% of that audience at AJ fights are casual fans and people who don't even watch boxing. He is heavily marketed to that audience, Hearn makes no bones about it either to be fair to him. Even celebrities turn up that have never been spotted at a boxing event before. It's a totally different audience.

Most actual boxing fans know the real situation.

[Vinnykin]

This is about right. 90% of that audience at AJ fights are casual fans and people who don't even watch boxing. He is heavily marketed to that audience, Hearn makes no bones about it either to be fair to him. Even celebrities turn up that have never been spotted at a boxing event before. It's a totally different audience.

Most actual boxing fans know the real situation.

Oh yeah, you can tell by the chanting! they just put on the popular sing-along songs and they love it. A large % are women as well, dressed up to the 9's. It's a good night out these events and Sky have done a good job getting boxing up to that level. I'll never argue that point. I just don't care about that stuff when it comes to the actual fights and fighters. It's all good in the grand scheme of things though. It allowed Hearn to pay an American $6million to hand over a belt for his fighter. No one else could do that

[fanofslug]

Like Warren and can't wait to see both fights, but bringing up AJ's criminal record and previous ASBO was a bit below the belt. He was young and what boxer really has a spotless background.