Jarell Miller stand-in: who would you prefer?

[black panther]

If Miller is definitely out of the AJ fight, bearing in mind Wilder & Fury already have fights scheduled, who would you prefer to see opposite Joshua on June 1st?

[Verdi]

Usyk.

[black panther]

Usyk.

Nice! But I can’t see it happened I would imagine Hearn wanting to build that fight up.

[tiny_acres]

Trevor Bryan is one I don't want to see but would not surprise me if it's him.
He's the #1 WBA contender so I'm sure they could eliminate a mandatory with him.
He has no chance in hell of winning so it would be who Hearn would want

[Boxerbeetle]

What an absolutely garbage selection. The heavyweight division stinks outside of Joshua.

[Gnome]

Pulev

[black panther]

Pulev

Cheers. Dave Allen out of poll. pulev In.

[DrDuke]

Pulev has the best chances to provide a counteraction to Joshua, so he's the best option. But can he be ready after a pretty hard fought recent bout?

[Boxerbeetle]

I initially thought Pulev, but the way Wlad demolished him so easily makes me think AJ would do exactly the same, probably even earlier.

[jamamb]

pulev had a big ass cut, dont know that hed be ready

[black panther]

pulev had a big ass cut, dont know that hed be ready

Also I would imagine his eligibility to be licensed is under review after the harassment claim/ “kissing” incident.

[Ruthless-RKO]

Ortiz was first name that AJ said to Hearn.

Hearn is loving that fight..

Apparently, they've sold 17k tickets with 10k being UK fans.. So there is no way they are moving dates. Plus AJ will want to fight and get paid that date.

Hearn said, Ortiz's team might look at this and say it's too short notice.. Knowing Ortiz, he probably jump on it, and it would be his highest payday.

No replacement is going to be getting Miller's actual purse, it will be a reduced amount for sure, but regardless, a high payday.

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Pulev was guaranteed £4m against Joshua - his replacement Takam took home £755,500 guaranteed, before probably doubling that figure after ppv sales.

Joshua still took home around £18m for that fight though. Obviously late opponent change could have had an impact on ppv sales.

[jamamb]

ortiz would be good to take, ort is overrated by by many so it would look good for josh to smash him. its the best guy outside fury/wilder who he hasnt already beat.

luis loves the peds himself though, could be another failure!

[chinarich]

It either has to be a big name or an American, or at the very least someone with a big American following. I wouldn’t be surprised to see Kownacki owing to the fact I believe he has a strong following amongst the Polish-American community. Or his team have been trying to build that up.

[Coco]

Usuk

[Nightmare Roy]

Ortiz was first name that AJ said to Hearn.

Hearn is loving that fight..

Apparently, they've sold 17k tickets with 10k being UK fans.. So there is no way they are moving dates. Plus AJ will want to fight and get paid that date.

Hearn said, Ortiz's team might look at this and say it's too short notice.. Knowing Ortiz, he probably jump on it, and it would be his highest payday.

No replacement is going to be getting Miller's actual purse, it will be a reduced amount for sure, but regardless, a high payday.

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Pulev was guaranteed £4m against Joshua - his replacement Takam took home £755,500 guaranteed, before probably doubling that figure after ppv sales.

Joshua still took home around £18m for that fight though. Obviously late opponent change could have had an impact on ppv sales.

Reduced purse? I seriously doubt it Ortiz or whoever have them by the balls, also with only a few weeks notice they will want to make bank.

[Ruthless-RKO]

Reduced purse? I seriously doubt it Ortiz or whoever have them by the balls, also with only a few weeks notice they will want to make bank.

Will Definitely not be the full purse. Only difference here is Hearn told Takam to train and be ready in case anything was to happen. Probably already agreed a purse by then as well. 6 weeks isn’t too long nor is it around the corner.

Ortiz was paid $500k vs. Wilder.

[KiwiRider]

It either has to be a big name or an American, or at the very least someone with a big American following. I wouldn’t be surprised to see Kownacki owing to the fact I believe he has a strong following amongst the Polish-American community. Or his team have been trying to build that up.

Kownacki is a bit like Sean Monaghan, does fine in front of the right guys, sells tickets in New York, but will get seriously exposed at any higher level than he is at right now

[Coco]

Arreola would give it the trash talk, come to fight, and lose spectacularly, take low money too, a low risk fight

[chinarich]

Kownacki is a bit like Sean Monaghan, does fine in front of the right guys, sells tickets in New York, but will get seriously exposed at any higher level than he is at right now

Oh, I don’t believe he’ll be competitive at all but he fits the bill in terms of being relatively popular where the fight is staged and i wouldn’t be surprised were he chosen.

[bigjack]

Pulev

[KiwiRider]

He is a mandatory. I mean, what can ya do?
It happens all the time if you want to keep multiple belts there is always a Pulev or a Charr lurking about.

[Ruthless-RKO]

Kownacki is a bit like Sean Monaghan, does fine in front of the right guys, sells tickets in New York, but will get seriously exposed at any higher level than he is at right now

Too bad Monaghan’s retired now.

[tobyh5]

Once again, it all flips around.

At one stage AJ was stumbling around in the dark desperate for an opponent and him and the team were taking a lot of incoming hits from critics, especially in light of that "proper fighting man" Tyson Fury seemingly on the point of signing to fight Deontay Wilder for the second time.

THEN Fury decided to be an absolute prick and go back on so many of his previous expressed opinions (I don't fight for money, I do not need the money, I am a proper fighting man who will just fight the proper fights, I will fight anyone, I do not need long negotiations as I just want to fight anyone) by then signing to fight someone hardly anyone has heard of and no one respects. Then Wilder had to take care of his mandatory and is facing the known (but not already beaten badly by AJ) Breazeale.

Suddenly they had let AJ off the hook and he was in the best fight out of the top three guys. Now, we have all three facing fights none of really give a shite about.

The flagbearer division is red hot, and everyone is fighting bums. Great. The only fight that I would be interested in would be Ortiz but I doubt the fat ancient fck would get in shape in time,

[skanksta]

Everyone on that list would be an acceptable replacement and watchable fight - except Charr.
Please god not him !