Comments Thread For: Fury's Dubious Decision & Why Wilder Won't Accept Arum's Offer

[SchoolTheseCats]

Let me clarify.. Arum wants to bring Wilder, who is not signed to a promoter, to ESPN and have him fight the rematch with Fury in the fall on pay-per-view following interim bouts for both on ESPN+ this summer.

That's just a fact.

Fact is he offered him a five fight deal to sign with espn to get the fury rematch, he saying he wants it in the fall but he is king of marinating so would prob be 4th or even 5th fight of deal might have to agree to more options after that... we all know how arum works don’t know why y’all going so hard trying spin ****

[SchoolTheseCats]

You are repeating what two irrelevant idiots on youtube said and even they admit its rumor.

GOT PROOF...BRING IT.

Dumb ass straight from the company arum puts boxing matches on guess it’s still needs more proof

[factsarenice]

Wilder is with PBC Arum knows full well he won't get to promote Wilder because they tried this before Eddie Hearn tried it too last September and didn't work for him

PBC is not a promoter, just an advisor, wilder is not tied to a network and ESPN is paying Wilder 4 million to fight a nobody and then multiple millions in a rematch. Where's the problem?

If Wilder doesn't want to fight Fury or Joshua I guess he can fight Bermane Stiverne

[factsarenice]

BUSTED...Obviously you never took the time to watch the video or read the article.

NEXT!

Dumb ass straight from the company arum puts boxing matches on guess it’s still needs more proof

[REDEEMER]

Dumb ass straight from the company arum puts boxing matches on guess it’s still needs more proof

So you are admitting the ESPN deal is not a road block then ? You are flip flopping an awful lot , but at least you can see now that the proposal is deemed very plausible that wilder will concede or avoid .

"If we are amenable to the offer, we will be able to get something done. If the terms are amenable to us, something will happen. If not, it won't."

"We will all talk it through and then we will make a decision," Finkel said. "That's how we do it. But we want the rematch, so that is not the issue"

[factsarenice]

Fact is he offered him a five fight deal to sign with espn to get the fury rematch, he saying he wants it in the fall but he is king of marinating so would prob be 4th or even 5th fight of deal might have to agree to more options after that... we all know how arum works don’t know why y’all going so hard trying spin ****

Five fights is not a fact at all. Again, you' re merely repeating what two irrelevant idiots on youtube said and even they admitted they based it on a rumor.

All we know for not is that Arum offered Wilder 4 million to fight a scrub and a rematch in the fall. So far that's it. Shelly Finkel admitted to receiving a multi-fight offer and rematch but that's it, he refused to give particulars. Even if in the end it does turn out to be 5 fights Wilder's advisory team can always counter offer but saying you know it's a 5 fight raw deal based upon an article that doesn't actually say that is misleading. Worse, you post the link assuming nobody would read it. I had no choice but to call you down on that, not cool.

As far as the king of marinate, more options after that... we all know how arum works, don’t know why y’all going so hard trying spin" WTF...there's absolutely no proof of any of that.

[Offic.Scorecard]

Another bullsheet article from the shilling scene.

[leeroy84]

Because the money on the fight is in the US, and that's clear. Wilder was willing to travel, Fury wanted the fight at Old Trafford, but when the camps sat down and looked at the numbers, the US made sense.

Wilder-Joshua, for the unified heavyweight championship, will draw well over 1m buys in the US; getting to $100m was always a bit tricky to me, but SHOPPV/SkyBO/MGM Resorts could easily deliver Wilder and Joshua $70m+ to split up between them.

Depending on how the fight goes, the rematch likely doubles that.

Who trades that potential to split maybe $45m in the UK?

But an AJ fight in the UK is financially more viable???

I know AJ is huge over here but I think you slightly underestimate Tyson pulling power too, and at a 80k capacity Old Trafford??

Looks to me like DW just didn't want to travel which makes me doubt any UK AJ potential fight too (unless he's forced maybe)

Probably one of the reasons for Fury moving to ESPN, more bargaining chips in the deal... makes perfect sense if you fear another robbery actually

[Phenom]

PBC is not a promoter, just an advisor, wilder is not tied to a network and ESPN is paying Wilder 4 million to fight a nobody and then multiple millions in a rematch. Where's the problem?

If Wilder doesn't want to fight Fury or Joshua I guess he can fight Bermane Stiverne

PBC is not a person you would have to be ****** to think CBS/showtime and FOX would give multi-year 9 figure contract to organization that doesn't have the fighters

[Ray*]

What was his max payday pre-Fury? 2 million for the bums he fought.

Doubling that to fight a bum now post-Fury is a good raise in his paycheck.

Sorry to say but hes not worth more than that for fighting bums and IMO thats still to high. Hes not as popular in the US as he thinks.

Well let’s see what happens next, I just don’t think he would accept monies that low anymore. After tasting the good life with the Fury fight he was already calling himself the A-side in the HW division (Deluded I know).