BigDoofus wrote: ↑01 Dec 2018, 04:01
Deleted_Scenes wrote: ↑30 Nov 2018, 15:05
BigDoofus wrote: ↑30 Nov 2018, 13:56
The Klitschko that AJ beat was even older and hadn't won a fight in over 2 years. He then took a $50m swerve and will end up fighting an opponent who he has already beaten and went life-and-death with Chisora. Sparkling?
The facilitator of that $50m offer came out and admitted it was never an offer to Joshua, as Wilder's people made out. The money was put forward by BT, as on offer to Sky Sports/Matchroom to buy the rights to the fight. Joshua would have seen a fraction of it, if anything.
Joshua's promoter did an IFL interview confirming the offer was genuine and he had checked the money was there. He said AJ would decide within a fortnight. He chose not to fight.
The offer was genuine, and the money was there. It just wasn't an offer to pay a full $50m to the fighter. Eddie never once mentioned how those funds would have been split, nor did he ever claim Joshua would receive all of the money.
Fwank was asked in an IFL interview, how they planned to get around Joshua's contractual obligations to Sky - as BT were financing the offer, Fwank was supposedly involved in the brokering behind the scenes.
BT agreed to finance the offer, if and only if, the fight was to be aired exclusively on BT PPV. Fwank's reply was that the BT funded offer was put to Sky and Matchroom as a bid to buy out the full rights to the fight - Not an offer to pay a $50m purse directly to Joshua.
If Joshua is to earn $50m personally, that gives two possibilities:
1. Sky and Matchroom would be content to pass the full amount to Joshua, happy to earn zero profit for themselves, when their own fighter is contesting the biggest heavyweight fight in years.
2. The BT offer was actually vastly more than $50m (to ensure Joshua got the amount he wanted, and Sky and Matchroom also would receive an amount sufficient to compensate them for their own loss of earnings). No amount greater than $50m was ever confirmed, or even rumoured, by either side.
None of those seem very likely, do they?
The ONLY possible alternative, is that Joshua was only set to receive a cut of the full amount.
Anyway, on topic, Ortiz was clearly better than Chisora. Stiverne (first fight) is the next best fighter on Wilder's record. He was probably about level with the motivated version of Del Boy, although his ranking at the time was inflated, due to the division entering a transitional phase. Nobody really knew who was better than who, and Stiverne had a win over shot Arreola. That's it. Hindsight tells us he probably shouldn't have even been top 10. It is what it is. Nobody else is really worth mentioning.
. Last time i checked it was lol. Im pretty sure the guys iv mentione would beat kabayel pretty easy too,we can pick the bones out of anyones career but,like i say imo these were better than chisora at the time wilder beat them,ill give you arreola maybe but the rest are