Comments Thread For: Hearn Sounds Off on Luis Ortiz and His Team Over Joshua Talks

[angkag]

Where was Haymon's name mentioned in the article? And Ruiz, a Haymon fighter, is who is taking the fight now so kill your nonsense

Ruiz is a Haymon fighter ? I can see him on the TR site, but not the PBC one.

[davefromvancouv]

Floyd Mayweather didn't give his opponents anywhere near 25% after he hit the big time. He didn't give them anywhere near $6 or $7million either, btw, unless they were huge stars themselves like Manny and Conor.

Then they were ill-advised...

[Ajvar]

25% is fair for an optional defense. That's $7.5 million if Joshua is making $30 million.

7.5M is not a 25% deal if AJ makes 30M. But what did I expect from boxing community, people who know math at least of 1st grade? NAAAAH.

[Boksfan]

Ruiz is a Haymon fighter ? I can see him on the TR site, but not the PBC one.

Yes, Ruiz is a PBC boxer.

[Oshio]

Dudes saying 5M is lowballing Ortiz? I disagree. 5m is too much for Ortizn for someone who is an undercard fighter, has not fought any credible fighter and win, and, is not top 3 in any of the sanctioning bodies. 1.5m or 2m is all Ortiz would have been offered if I were Hearn. No way he would make 7m in the Wilder rematch.

[kafkod]

Floyd was making 40-50M and paying his opponents like 2M or less ....... no one cared because he’s American. I guess because Joshua is British he’s expected to give Wilder and Ortiz charity.

I can't think of any other reason why Hearn and AJ are judged by different standards than US fighters and promoters.

[GlassJoey]

If he's juicing still I'd assume they are smart enough to figure out how to pass a test within the time needed initially + hard stop using during VADA testing cuz they would have time to figure it out still if the fight got signed. So I tend to doubt this has anything to do with anything.

The only way mfers who are really juicing who know the f#ck what they are doing are getting caught is if they don't have prep time before a test.

But maybe they don't know wtf they are doing with juicing either idk.

Much to my surprise it seems like Big Baby realllllllly didn't f#cking know what he was doing or he was just super reckless for some reason. I still don't understand his situation for the life of me.

It’s weird how the trainers and coaches disappear when someone gets caught. My guess is Miller thought he was on undetectable juice or it’s just an outrageous duck to keep his O intact.

[Calibaloc]

Im gonna be straight up. I was one of the guys who thought that AJ and Hearn would forever duck Wilder and Ortiz but Now I see that AJ is the TRUE boogie man of the heavyweight division. Not saying the other fighters are sacred but they just dont want that AJ smoke right now for whatever reason . I man enough to admit that.

[alexjust]

Well...if I were Ortiz, I'd consider suing his handlers if they rejected the offer without Ortiz's guidance. Ultimately this is his decision whether he'll accept the purse or not. Unless he is puppet.

[Ake-Dawg]

$7M seems like a pretty good deal for Ortiz. I wonder what led them to turning that down. I was hoping Eddie would comment on why he didn't respond to Jay Jimenez requesting that he send a contract for the last offer. That seemed to be before they moved on to Ruiz. I could understand if he decided that he needed to have a deal in place by a certain date and was seemingly already close to a deal with Ruiz. Surely Hearn wasn't only talking to Ortiz.