WSMFC64 Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 (edited) Anthony Joshua's potential fight with Deontay Wilder to decide the undisputed heavyweight champion looks unlikely to happen this year after the WBA gave the Brit 24 hours to make his fight with Alexander Povetkin. AJ and Wilder have looked on a collision course for quite some time and when Joshua beat Joseph Parker to win the WBO title in March it meant between him and the 'Bronze Bomber' they had all of the heavyweight divisions major titles. That means a fight between the pair would be to decide the undisputed heavyweight king, a rarity in the sport. Both sides have talked about a deal being done but that now seems dead in water, for the rest of the year, with Joshua being ordered by the WBA to defend that title against number one contender Alexander Povetkin. The World Boxing Association had given AJ and Eddie Hearn an extra month to negotiate with Wilder but with that time up the Brits now only have 24 hours to come to terms with Povetkin. In a statement WBA president Gilberto Mendoza said, "Today the WBA requested an answer from Anthony Joshua's team regarding his fight with the mandatory challenger Alexander Povetkin. The fight with Povetkin puts paid to the Wilder fight for now, with the American no doubt likely to use this as further proof that Joshua is scared of him, but it opens the chances up for a summer fight next year. We just hope that Wilder and Joshua isn't one of those fights that for some reason never happens. For now though the 2012 Olympic champion can't look past Povetkin. Source: BBC Sports Edited June 26, 2018 by WSMFC64 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
selij Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 Re: Anthony Joshua Ordered To Confirm Alexander Povetkin Fight In 24 Hours AJ said the belts mean more than any money and hes not giving any of them up. We'll see now............ :ranger: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonRingRules Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 Re: Anthony Joshua Ordered To Confirm Alexander Povetkin Fight In 24 Hours --- much a grandstanding ado over nothing by power brokers that we've seen thousands of times before. Play it again Sam and so it goes. At least Deyonce has established a profile in the thug hiphop culture now that could translate into mo' mega $$$! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gavpowell Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 Re: Anthony Joshua Ordered To Confirm Alexander Povetkin Fight In 24 Hours AJ said the belts mean more than any money and hes not giving any of them up. We'll see now............ :ranger: He won't - he's within an inch of becoming the first totally undisputed champion, so fighting Povetkin now would just be a minor annoyance. I still think we'll see the Wilder fight signed in time to avoid that though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonRingRules Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 Re: Anthony Joshua Ordered To Confirm Alexander Povetkin Fight In 24 Hours --- Ah, Yupsir, ye aulde step aside remuneration. Deja vu all over again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerald Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 Re: Anthony Joshua Ordered To Confirm Alexander Povetkin Fight In 24 Hours Hearn has been in the media making noises about the Povetkin fight looking inevitable now. Boxingscene is reporting that it's likely to be the opening card for the DAZN deal in September. It will be interesting to hear how the deal for Joshua on DAZN has been negotiated given that there's scope for a conflict of interests in Hearn's case... Joshua-Povetkin Likely for 9/22, To Be Streamed By DAZN in U.S. - Boxing News Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gavpowell Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 Re: Anthony Joshua Ordered To Confirm Alexander Povetkin Fight In 24 Hours --- Ah, Yupsir, ye aulde step aside remuneration. Deja vu all over again. What's the first recorded instance of step-aside money in boxing history? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonRingRules Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 Re: Anthony Joshua Ordered To Confirm Alexander Povetkin Fight In 24 Hours --- Lewis the most infamous step aside, but clearing $4mil to give up his IBF and WBA so as not to fight Chris Byrd and John Ruiz to make bigger money elsewhere is a good financial decision. Didnt win any accolades though. I'm sure the practice started by the 90s, but some savant boxing nerd is the one to ask, but where he be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cableaddict Posted June 27, 2018 Share Posted June 27, 2018 Re: Anthony Joshua Ordered To Confirm Alexander Povetkin Fight In 24 Hours Chistonastick... It's so obvious they were never going to fight wilder. Do you AJ fans STILL not see the simple truth? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sould664 Posted June 27, 2018 Share Posted June 27, 2018 Re: Anthony Joshua Ordered To Confirm Alexander Povetkin Fight In 24 Hours I'd actually prefer waiting until 2019.. Joshua V Povetkin and Wilder V Breazeale will leave a clear path to unification and by then Fury should be nearly ready to fight the winner. Whyte V Parker winner fights Pulev - Miller winner and we have a definitive mandatory! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cableaddict Posted June 27, 2018 Share Posted June 27, 2018 Re: Anthony Joshua Ordered To Confirm Alexander Povetkin Fight In 24 Hours I'd actually prefer waiting until 2019.. Joshua V Povetkin and Wilder V Breazeale will leave a clear path to unification and by then Fury should be nearly ready to fight the winner. Whyte V Parker winner fights Pulev - Miller winner and we have a definitive mandatory! I agree with you. In fact I've said the exact same thing in the past. I also would rather see them fight once both men improve further, especially AJ. -but fricking Eddie Hearn, playing games...... And now Wilder is another 6 months behind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gavpowell Posted June 27, 2018 Share Posted June 27, 2018 Re: Anthony Joshua Ordered To Confirm Alexander Povetkin Fight In 24 Hours -but fricking Eddie Hearn, playing games...... Games like "We've put 50 million dollars up - yes or no AJ?!" - those sort of games? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonRingRules Posted June 27, 2018 Share Posted June 27, 2018 (edited) Re: Anthony Joshua Ordered To Confirm Alexander Povetkin Fight In 24 Hours --- Deyonce games like, "we'd rather pull out of a $20 mil fight in Russia to fight some TBA for a bag of peanuts in front of a bunch of goobers at home. just a few years ago he was fighting Jason Gaverm on a undercard in front of a dozen fans. Ah, yes, good times for all. Edited June 27, 2018 by LondonRingRules Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gavpowell Posted June 27, 2018 Share Posted June 27, 2018 Re: Anthony Joshua Ordered To Confirm Alexander Povetkin Fight In 24 Hours Blaming Wilder for the collapse of the Povetkin fight is perverse - Wilder did absolutely nothing wrong and Povetkin screwed up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonRingRules Posted June 27, 2018 Share Posted June 27, 2018 Re: Anthony Joshua Ordered To Confirm Alexander Povetkin Fight In 24 Hours --- the poor prison tattooed dearie never flew to Russia for the Povetkin fight, sorta like you never doing anything wrong. I'd fight King Kong for 20 million, so let's not spin this any other way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cableaddict Posted June 27, 2018 Share Posted June 27, 2018 Re: Anthony Joshua Ordered To Confirm Alexander Povetkin Fight In 24 Hours AJ said the belts mean more than any money and hes not giving any of them up. We'll see now............ :ranger: Because AJ & Hearn have mysteriously forgotten the standard rule that unification bouts trump title mandatories. But of course he knows that if he fights Wilder first for the WBC belt, he'll probably lose, and thus never get a chance to defend that precious WBA belt against a clean (i.e. completely non-threatening) Povetkin.) Are there actually any AJ fans still clinging to the delusion that he owns an actual set of balls? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonRingRules Posted June 27, 2018 Share Posted June 27, 2018 Re: Anthony Joshua Ordered To Confirm Alexander Povetkin Fight In 24 Hours --- You mad? Eddie makin' his new network debut amas he can't mess around with the monkey biz yer boy brings. Josh fightin' the guy yer boy stiffed and makes mo'money, the whole reason all but yer boy are willing to fight for. Let yer boy fight a couple more TBAs and next year maybe Josh gives him D side money if he can drop the monkey biz! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gavpowell Posted June 27, 2018 Share Posted June 27, 2018 Re: Anthony Joshua Ordered To Confirm Alexander Povetkin Fight In 24 Hours Because AJ & Hearn have mysteriously forgotten the standard rule that unification bouts trump title mandatories.? Only if youy can get the deal done - Mendoza says they've had a month extension most recently and now it's time up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gavpowell Posted June 27, 2018 Share Posted June 27, 2018 Re: Anthony Joshua Ordered To Confirm Alexander Povetkin Fight In 24 Hours --- the poor prison tattooed dearie never flew to Russia for the Povetkin fight, sorta like you never doing anything wrong. I'd fight King Kong for 20 million, so let's not spin this any other way. Yes, but Wilder for all his faults does live in actual reality, which puts him one down on you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cableaddict Posted June 27, 2018 Share Posted June 27, 2018 Re: Anthony Joshua Ordered To Confirm Alexander Povetkin Fight In 24 Hours --- the poor prison tattooed dearie never flew to Russia for the Povetkin fight,..... Right. he only flew to Europe, since Povetkin was banned before Wilder's flight to Russia happened. Is there something about this that you seriously don't understand? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonRingRules Posted June 28, 2018 Share Posted June 28, 2018 Re: Anthony Joshua Ordered To Confirm Alexander Povetkin Fight In 24 Hours --- don't recall Povetkin being banned or suspended. The baloney WBC investigation concluded the ninny grams of contamination he tested for were well within the bounds of incidental contamination of the dirty food chain and water environment modern civilazation has soiled itself with. Are we going to execute folks for riding there bikes past the local meth or crack kitchens? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonRingRules Posted June 28, 2018 Share Posted June 28, 2018 Re: Anthony Joshua Ordered To Confirm Alexander Povetkin Fight In 24 Hours --- Eddie says offer still in place and sweetened the deal with a $5 mil tickover fight in New York, more than double the best purse Deyonce ever commanded. Sorta puts the poor dear in context to his current value of being worth peanuts on the dollar. Eddie Hearn offers Deontay Wilder $20m for Anthony Joshua and fight of his choosing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cableaddict Posted June 28, 2018 Share Posted June 28, 2018 Re: Anthony Joshua Ordered To Confirm Alexander Povetkin Fight In 24 Hours Great deal. 5 mil to fight whomever Hearn chooses, then 14 mil to fight AJ for the undisputed title. Then, if Wilder wins, AJ gets a rematch and Wilder STILL only gets 50%, but if Aj wins, WIlder can go fuck himself. Eddie Hearn can go fuck himself. And don't give me any "A" side bullshit. AJ is the ass clown of the division, until he faces Wilder. there IS no A-side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gavpowell Posted June 28, 2018 Share Posted June 28, 2018 Re: Anthony Joshua Ordered To Confirm Alexander Povetkin Fight In 24 Hours Great deal. 5 mil to fight whomever Hearn chooses, then 14 mil to fight AJ for the undisputed title. Then, if Wilder wins, AJ gets a rematch and Wilder STILL only gets 50%, but if Aj wins, WIlder can go fuck himself.. No, there's a rematch clause in the contract. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gavpowell Posted June 28, 2018 Share Posted June 28, 2018 Re: Anthony Joshua Ordered To Confirm Alexander Povetkin Fight In 24 Hours --- don't recall Povetkin being banned or suspended. He was given a warning after the Wilder fail that if he tested positive for anything else, he'd be banned. To fail one test may be considered unfortunate; to fail two looks like carelessness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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