{"id":1183579,"date":"2022-08-19T03:47:30","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T03:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/19\/eddie-hearn-wants-to-do-a-huge-deontay-wilder-fight-against-one-of-his-fighters\/"},"modified":"2022-08-19T03:47:30","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T03:47:30","slug":"eddie-hearn-wants-to-do-a-huge-deontay-wilder-fight-against-one-of-his-fighters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/19\/eddie-hearn-wants-to-do-a-huge-deontay-wilder-fight-against-one-of-his-fighters\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Hearn wants to do a &#8220;Huge&#8221; Deontay Wilder fight against one of his fighters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>By <strong>Sam Volz:<\/strong> Eddie Hearn says he\u2019s ready to offer Deontay Wilder huge money to fight one of the guys that he works with. Hearn isn\u2019t saying who that fighter is, but he did say it\u2019s one of these three: Anthony Joshua, Dillian Whyte, and Derek Chisora.<\/p>\n<p>Hearn says the money he\u2019d be offering Wilder is more than what he \u201ccould dream of making\u201d at this stage in his career.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s fair to say that if the former WBC heavyweight champion Wilder (42-2-1, 41 KOs) were to agree to the offer from Hearn, it would mean that he would be fighting in the UK, likely in London. As long as Wilder is on board with this, he\u2019d be in a position to a potentially easy fight against Chisora or Whyte.<\/p>\n<p>For the time, Wilder will be fighting the dangerous contender Robert Helenius on October 15th at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think there are a few fights, win or lose, for Anthony Joshua that remain massive,\u201d said Eddie Hearn to Intu Boxing. \u201cTyson Fury, DillianWhyte, and Deontay Wilder. There are three of them there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we\u2019re in the hunt for all big fights. AJ wants to fight everybody. He\u2019s proved that already. So, an <strong><em>AJ-Deontay Wilder fight is a massive fight.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs I said the other day, I reached out to Shelly Finkel recently. You should never take an opportunity away from a fighter. I have a pot of money available, and I\u2019m not saying where in terms of the territory to do a huge Deontay Wilder fight with one of the fighters I work with.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just frustrating because I want the fighter to know that opportunity is there. Sometimes managers and promoters will not even let it get to the fighter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I turn around to Deontay Wilder and say, \u2018Let me tell you the number I\u2019ve got for you.\u2019 If you say to me, \u2018I don\u2019t like you, so I\u2019m not going to work with you.\u2019 That\u2019s fair enough, but it\u2019s just important that he knows.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong><em>There\u2019s no way he can say no to it in the situation<\/em><\/strong>. I\u2019m just trying to get the Deontay Wilder fight for one of the guys I work with.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlso, at the same time,<strong><em> it\u2019s money well beyond what he could dream of making at this point in his career.<\/em><\/strong> So, hopefully, we can have some positive conversations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf those three [Joshua, Derek Chisora &amp; Dillian Whyte], it\u2019s one of those guys. We\u2019ll see if we can have those conversations. It looks like he\u2019s going to fight Robert Helenius first. Hopefully, he wins that fight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you talk about the money vs. the money he\u2019s making against Helenius. It\u2019s so substantial. Hopefully, I\u2019m not looking to wind anyone up. Let\u2019s just see if we can get around a table,\u201d said Eddie Hearn.<\/p>\n<p><noscript><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"Bgj92iPh6lE\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"DEONTAY WILDER &quot;ANTHONY JOSHUA LOOKS BROKEN&quot; PICKS USYK TO BEAT HIM AS HE TARGETS UNIFICATION\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Bgj92iPh6lE?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen title=\"DEONTAY WILDER \"ANTHONY JOSHUA LOOKS BROKEN\" PICKS USYK TO BEAT HIM AS HE TARGETS UNIFICATION\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/noscript><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sam Volz: Eddie Hearn says he\u2019s ready to offer Deontay Wilder huge money to fight one of the guys that he works with. Hearn isn\u2019t saying who that fighter is, but he did say it\u2019s one of these three: Anthony Joshua, Dillian Whyte, and Derek Chisora. Hearn says the money he\u2019d be offering Wilder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1183581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1183579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-premier-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1183579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1183579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1183579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1183579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}