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Re: So this Saudi deal....
Posted: 04 Sep 2023, 06:26
by big lennox
Redback Rasta wrote: ↑04 Sep 2023, 05:19
https://www.BS.com/wilder-joshua-finalized-two-three-weeks-says-hearn--177097'
Tick, tick, tick, tick....
What a strange period of time for heavyweight boxing. Wilder seems to be messing about with Ruiz, Fury's Dad is now talking up Fury vs Jon Jones after the incoming Ngannou mismatch, and Dubois, who lost virtually every minute of every round against Uysk, wants a rematch.
And the company that want to put on the AJ vs Wilder and Uysk vs Fury double header have gone very quiet.
Let's hope that sensible negotiations/discussions are going on behind the scenes.
Re: So this Saudi deal....
Posted: 04 Sep 2023, 07:10
by The Gratest
Redback Rasta wrote: ↑04 Sep 2023, 05:19
https://www.BS.com/wilder-joshua-finalized-two-three-weeks-says-hearn--177097'
Tick, tick, tick, tick....
Your link doesn't work, you appear to have added a ' at the end?
First it's quotes, now it's links, deary deary me. Calm down and stop getting so worked up about.
Re: So this Saudi deal....
Posted: 04 Sep 2023, 07:25
by The Gratest
big lennox wrote: ↑04 Sep 2023, 06:26
Redback Rasta wrote: ↑04 Sep 2023, 05:19
https://www.BS.com/wilder-joshua-finalized-two-three-weeks-says-hearn--177097'
Tick, tick, tick, tick....
What a strange period of time for heavyweight boxing. Wilder seems to be messing about with Ruiz, Fury's Dad is now talking up Fury vs Jon Jones after the incoming Ngannou mismatch, and Dubois, who lost virtually every minute of every round against Uysk, wants a rematch.
And the company that want to put on the AJ vs Wilder and Uysk vs Fury double header have gone very quiet.
Let's hope that sensible negotiations/discussions are going on behind the scenes.
Hearn gave an update 4 days ago in a Boxing Social interview. Said a trip to Saudi might be on the cards this week.
Re: So this Saudi deal....
Posted: 04 Sep 2023, 07:29
by big lennox
The Gratest wrote: ↑04 Sep 2023, 07:25
big lennox wrote: ↑04 Sep 2023, 06:26
Redback Rasta wrote: ↑04 Sep 2023, 05:19
https://www.BS.com/wilder-joshua-finalized-two-three-weeks-says-hearn--177097'
Tick, tick, tick, tick....
What a strange period of time for heavyweight boxing. Wilder seems to be messing about with Ruiz, Fury's Dad is now talking up Fury vs Jon Jones after the incoming Ngannou mismatch, and Dubois, who lost virtually every minute of every round against Uysk, wants a rematch.
And the company that want to put on the AJ vs Wilder and Uysk vs Fury double header have gone very quiet.
Let's hope that sensible negotiations/discussions are going on behind the scenes.
Hearn gave an update 4 days ago in a Boxing Social interview. Said a trip to Saudi might be on the cards this week.
Thanks. Here's hoping it leads to a great night of boxing.
Re: So this Saudi deal....
Posted: 04 Sep 2023, 15:52
by Redback Rasta
big lennox wrote: ↑04 Sep 2023, 07:29
The Gratest wrote: ↑04 Sep 2023, 07:25
big lennox wrote: ↑04 Sep 2023, 06:26
What a strange period of time for heavyweight boxing. Wilder seems to be messing about with Ruiz, Fury's Dad is now talking up Fury vs Jon Jones after the incoming Ngannou mismatch, and Dubois, who lost virtually every minute of every round against Uysk, wants a rematch.
And the company that want to put on the AJ vs Wilder and Uysk vs Fury double header have gone very quiet.
Let's hope that sensible negotiations/discussions are going on behind the scenes.
Hearn gave an update 4 days ago in a Boxing Social interview. Said a trip to Saudi might be on the cards this week.
Thanks. Here's hoping it leads to a great night of boxing.
It's been a long ride. We can only hope :TU:
Re: So this Saudi deal....
Posted: 05 Sep 2023, 19:48
by Redback Rasta
Bellew - hardly the greatest source admittedly - claiming :
“I've heard rumors that talks between Joshua and Wilder's reps have broken down now, and AJ's team is focused on him fighting Fury. There is talk of a meeting taking place in Africa, and that would be absolutely incredible. Another ‘Rumble in the Jungle’ in Zaire or something like that."
Re: So this Saudi deal....
Posted: 05 Sep 2023, 19:55
by jameswilson
Especially as Zaire no longer exhists.
Funnily enough Zaire had my favourite flag.
Re: So this Saudi deal....
Posted: 05 Sep 2023, 20:03
by Redback Rasta
jameswilson wrote: ↑05 Sep 2023, 19:55
Especially as Zaire no longer exhists.
Funnily enough Zaire had my favourite flag.
Bellew's never been the sharpest tool in the shed but in this case he may have heard something. Haybee?
Re: So this Saudi deal....
Posted: 06 Sep 2023, 04:58
by Ruthless-RKO
Redback Rasta wrote: ↑05 Sep 2023, 20:03
jameswilson wrote: ↑05 Sep 2023, 19:55
Especially as Zaire no longer exhists.
Funnily enough Zaire had my favourite flag.
Bellew's never been the sharpest tool in the shed but in this case he may have heard something. Haybee?
Speaking to Boxing Social, Hearn assessed the many rumours around potential heavyweight fights.
“If you read Twitter it’s ‘AJ-Wilder might not happen, it might be AJ-Fury, Fury might fight Usyk or Usyk might fight Hrgovic’. To be honest, any of those things are possible, that’s the reality of the situation.”
“Our fight with Wilder hasn’t changed in the last three or four days since we sat down. Are there conversations about Fury-AJ? Not really. Would Saudi be interested? Yeah, I think so.
From my position, we want to just try and nail the Wilder fight. The Wilder fight is the one we’ve been talking about for a few months now and we want to try and progress it.”
“AJ Wants to fight, he’s really enjoying the activity. If he can’t fight in January I think I think you’ll see him in December. But still, our intention is to close the Wilder deal.”
Re: So this Saudi deal....
Posted: 06 Sep 2023, 07:10
by garethhop
Genuinely amazed that anyone listens to what Eddie Hearn speculates about rather than announces.
About a month ago he reached his peak when he said he was just about to announce a full schedule through to December that was the best he'd ever put together.
There are two fights that I'm looking forward to from the 8 events that have been announced, Wood Vs Warrington and Bam Vs Sunny.
Re: So this Saudi deal....
Posted: 06 Sep 2023, 09:06
by Spud
I am surprised the saudis have any money left with the amount they are shelling out on the football.
Re: So this Saudi deal....
Posted: 06 Sep 2023, 09:13
by Counter-puncher
garethhop wrote: ↑06 Sep 2023, 07:10
Genuinely amazed that anyone listens to what Eddie Hearn speculates about rather than announces.
About a month ago he reached his peak when he said he was just about to announce a full schedule through to December that was the best he'd ever put together.
There are two fights that I'm looking forward to from the 8 events that have been announced, Wood Vs Warrington and Bam Vs Sunny.
he's going to Make Boxing Great Again
Re: So this Saudi deal....
Posted: 13 Sep 2023, 00:10
by Redback Rasta
garethhop wrote: ↑06 Sep 2023, 07:10
Genuinely amazed that anyone listens to what Eddie Hearn speculates about rather than announces.
Hearn's 2 to 3 weeks now in week 4 and the Saudi yawn just rolls on.
Re: So this Saudi deal....
Posted: 13 Sep 2023, 01:26
by The Gratest
Hey, you edited your '1 to 2 weeks' quote post to agree with what I'd said it should have been. Fffs, what was all the fuss about?
Re: So this Saudi deal....
Posted: 13 Sep 2023, 03:10
by Ruthless-RKO
Looks like Saudi are finished with boxing..
Hearn already said he'd like it at Wembley or Las Vegas.
Re: So this Saudi deal....
Posted: 13 Sep 2023, 03:35
by The Gratest
Greedy Belly killed big time boxing in Saudi.
Time to take it back to the fans.
Fwank still has an unused Wembley voucher left over, maybe Hearn can buy it from him cut-price?
Re: So this Saudi deal....
Posted: 13 Sep 2023, 03:57
by Counter-puncher
wait, what? have the saudis pulled the plug?
Re: So this Saudi deal....
Posted: 13 Sep 2023, 04:07
by The Gratest
I don't think the plug was ever in..
Re: So this Saudi deal....
Posted: 13 Sep 2023, 04:47
by cormack
Spud wrote: ↑06 Sep 2023, 09:06
I am surprised the saudis have any money left with the amount they are shelling out on the football.
well they aint spending it on boxing !
Re: So this Saudi deal....
Posted: 13 Sep 2023, 04:52
by maverick23
Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑13 Sep 2023, 03:10
Looks like Saudi are finished with boxing..
Hearn already said he'd like it at Wembley or Las Vegas.
I don’t know about that but it looks like Skills Challenge may be finished with it.
Re: So this Saudi deal....
Posted: 13 Sep 2023, 05:15
by Ruthless-RKO
stevec@france wrote: ↑13 Sep 2023, 04:47
Spud wrote: ↑06 Sep 2023, 09:06
I am surprised the saudis have any money left with the amount they are shelling out on the football.
well they aint spending it on boxing !
The football investment is actually giving them money back.
Since Ronaldo went over.. They've signed big TV deals.
DAZN, FOX, Canal etc.
Re: So this Saudi deal....
Posted: 13 Sep 2023, 07:41
by leejonesjnr
I don’t think they have any money issues.
As I understand it, they intend to ‘buy sport’ but are going through some internal power struggles.
Re: So this Saudi deal....
Posted: 13 Sep 2023, 08:40
by cormack
boxing is probably too much of a niche to be a great investment vs football etc .
Let them ditch it and then at least we may get back to some semblance of normality where a fight can be made without totally outrageous expectations of revenue .
Re: So this Saudi deal....
Posted: 13 Sep 2023, 08:44
by maverick23
stevec@france wrote: ↑13 Sep 2023, 08:40
boxing is probably too much of a niche to be a great investment vs football etc .
Let them ditch it and then at least we may get back to some semblance of normality where a fight can be made without totally outrageous expectations of revenue .
Yeah - I’m hoping for that too. The Saudis have massively slowed down the heavyweight division unfortunately.
Re: So this Saudi deal....
Posted: 13 Sep 2023, 12:11
by Redback Rasta
Counter-puncher wrote: ↑13 Sep 2023, 03:57
:lol: wait, what? have the saudis pulled the plug?
Eddie was only 100% sure Joshua-Wilder would get made. Next time l'm wating for a higher level of assurance before l start believe him :lol: