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Originally Posted by DerekDuvale
Didn’t realise Eddie Hearn used this forum
What a complete load of biased nonsense
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Where's the nonsense. Every single piece of it was solid fact. The biggest Heavyweight fight over the past 20 years was Lewis and Tyson. It was one of the most anticipated clashes in boxing history nevermind at heavyweight. The second part. Again fact. Joshua/Wlad outsold Wilder/Fury worldwide in just the UK alone. His previous four fights also outsold this same fight, again fact. To be honest. Haye and Bellew outdid them. Speaking of Haye, his fight with Wlad was the most anticipated since Tyson and Lewis. Neither Fury or Wilder have the fan base you seem to think they do. That was Wilders first ever PPV fight. That tells you a lot about a guy that's been Champion for the best part of 5 years and with a 40 something fight record.
On the analysis side. Wladimir is Fury's biggest win to date. Fact, its indisputable. Wilders biggest win to date is a 40 year old Luis Ortiz whom by many was severely overrated, again fact. Two guys with 30 and 40 something records but barely a handful of legitimate talented opponents between them. Fury's spent 12 months fighting a German taxi driver and a guy no one has heard of, scraping a UD from the latter pouring of blood. Wilder on the other hand ducked both Joshua and Whyte in the same year in favour of a rematch against the same 40 year old he'd taken out the year before. He did this in favour of preserving the Fury rematch. Very literally cherry picking opponents as did Fury when he took on two bums back to back. They both very literally have no other significant fighters on their resume.
Like I said. These two are holding up an entire division. Whytes been waiting two years. Parker gets another crack. Pulev gets a go at Joshua. Usyk gets a go at Joshua. The difference is. Usyk, Whyte, Joshua, Pulev, Povetkin and Co are all willing to fight each other. Fury is Warren's top draw, Wilders sacking promoters that dare to try set up fights with your Joshua's, Parkers or Whytes. Turning down the most lucrative deal of your career because he didn't like the idea of having to fight either of them.
I did like the Hearn bit though, but no. I like to see prime boxing. Not cherry picked matches. The latter is the reason the UFC shot off. All the top guys fighting each other every single month. On the same note we could drag Warren into it. Notorious for mismanaging fighters.
Amir Khan, Kell Brook, Anthony Crolla, Ricky Hatton. In fact the guy managed to make the same mistake twice regarding Hatton and Brook. Two welterweights with super padded records and world titles only to be fed to P4P #1 fighters in Golovkin and Mayweather. To then follow that up with equally stupid fights with Pacquiao and Spence. Essentially destroying the careers of both fighters in two fights. Two 30 something undefeated fighters who'd never left their own back yard got obliterated as they tried to step from domestic to elite level. Who'd seen that coming? Say what you want about the snake Hearn but he knows how to market his fighters on a completely different level to Warren.