By Jim Dower: Deontay Wilder’s manager Shelly Finkel is hopeful that he can put together a fight between him and former heavyweight champion Tyson Fury for November 10 or November 17 on Showtime pay-per-view. Contrary to what Fury said recently about the Fury-Wilder fight being done for December, the negotiations are still ongoing.
By Scott Gilfoid: WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder’s manager Shelly Finkel says Anthony Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn never seriously wanted to make the Joshua-Wilder fight next for September. Finkel says Hearn had a two-fight deal for Wembley Stadium in London, and he was just looking for a way out of having to make the Joshua vs. Wilder in 2018.
By Scott Gilfoid: WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder and his team are prepared to make the fight with IBF/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua as long as minor changes are made in the contract for the fight. According to ESPN, Wilder’s manager Shelly Finkel is ready to get the fight done as long as “small changes” are made in the contact by Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn of Matchroom Boxing.
By Scott Gilfoid: Deontay Wilder has agreed to a unification fight against Anthony Joshua to take place in the UK, and contract will be sent out this week to the WBC champion to sign, according to promoter Eddie Hearn of Matchroom Boxing.
By Scott Gilfoid: Deontay Wilder’s manager Shelly Finkel says they have no problems fighting Anthony Joshua in the UK. That’s not a show stopper in putting the fight together. Wilder (40-0, 39 KOs) is willing to fight Joshua on his home turf if that’s the only way it can get made.
By Scott Gilfoid: Deontay Wilder (40-0, 39 KOs) still expects his fight against Anthony Joshua (21-0, 20 KOs) to take place despite the fact that AJ’s promoter Eddie Hearn chose not to accept the rich $50 million offer of for him to take the fight with the WBC heavyweight champion.
By Damian Poole: Like many of you, I was totally caught off guard by the $50 million offer by Deontay Wilder to Anthony Joshua and Eddie Hearn earlier this week. Technically this offer is a reply to Anthony Joshua comment he made to IFL TV, Anthony said “I’ll take 50 million if that’s the case, Wilder’s team bring me 50 million up front and we’ll take the fight. Basically the offer by Deontay Wilder is his way of calling AJ’S bluff. Does this mean the offer is a P.R stunt or does Wilder really have $50 million? Remember this offer came from Wilder via personal email not his managers.
By Scott Gilfoid: Former two division belt holder David Haye thinks Anthony Joshua will agree to the $50 million offer made to him and his promoter Eddie Hearn if the offer is real for a unification fight against WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder. Shelly Finkel, the manager for Wilder, shocked the boxing world on Wednesday when he revealed that he’d made a significant $50 million offer to Joshua.
By Scott Gilfoid: Eddie Hearn’s flat fee $12.5 million offer made to WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder is not what he and his co-manager Shelly Finkel are looking to get for a big unification fight against IBF/WBA heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua. They want a MUCH better deal than that, which could come out to a split of nearly 90/10 in favor of Joshua if Team Deontay had agreed to it. Hearn is going to need to sweeten the pot considerably if he’s going to get Wilder to agree to a flat fee.
By Scott Gilfoid: It doesn’t look like the fans are going to be seeing a unification fight between WBC heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua and WBC champion Deontay Wilder in 2018. Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn has given Wilder’s manager Al Haymon a $12.5 million take it or leave it offer for a fight, and if they don’t accept it, then they’ll move on to face AJ’s WBA mandatory challenger Alexander Povetkin in their next fight, and then after that Jarrell ‘Big Baby’ Miller.