I mean the Espinoza stuff is weird you know you have a guy who's running a
network you know Stephen Espinoza we've had a good
relationship with Anthony Joshua obviously that contract is up with Showtime Joshua
is a free agent in terms of his US TV in our spats Steven Espinoza confirmed that
Deontay Wilder is not under contract with Showtime so you've got this super
fight between Joshua and Wilder neither fighter are under contract with Showtime yet
he's sticking his nose in siding with Wilder so that's okay I
don't really none of this stuff I take personal because it's all game
it's all a charade you know Shakespeare said all the world's a stage and we're all
muppets we're puppets we're actors in this boxing play if you like so Espinoza
pipes up you know I was looking for Conor McGregor at the time to help me
out but I guess Wilder or Joshua looks at Espinoza and thinks well ... then you've
got this other guy Brendan Schaub or whatever you know coming in this is the whole
Showtime propaganda now ah we've got the baddest man on the planet
Joshua's avoiding everyone's avoiding Deontay Wilder so this helps them you know so I
think all those little dynamics only make the fight bigger when it does
happen like you imagine when this press conference finally drops and you've got
a Joshua Shelly Finkel maybe be Lou DiBella Wilder it will be carnage and that
is part of the hype that is part of the charade as I said in these big fights
you look at fighters like Canelo Golovkin which is a brilliant fight they haven't had
a press conference to announce the fight because they didn't want one
I mean like that is so frustrating you've got a fight that originally it's just
built out of two excellent world champions now you've gotta fight that's built out of
hate that is built out of controversy that is built out of potentially lies
and all you have to do is get them together you know that for me is a way
how you build fight how you build pay-per-views you know to say other than
they're not going to do a press conference they'll see each other on fight week that's you're not
explaining or telling the narrative of this story so for me the Showtime stuff
the Espinoza stuff the Wilder stuff the Shelly Finkel stuff that that just adds
to the pot what you must never let happen is ego getting in the way of good
business and that's what I think is my strongest point I'm not sure that's the
same for Deontay Wilder so as far as us and Anthony Joshua are concerned we've
agreed a deal with Deontay Wilder we've given you the contract mirroring the
terms that you've agreed it's all down to you my friend but now maybe Wilder's
taking it personally maybe Wilder's looked at his bank account and thought how am
I the WBC heavyweight world champion how am I 41-0 and how am I making
peanuts in relation to what I should be making you know he launches personal
attacks on me ahh this guy this promoter mate if I had Deontay Wilder you can time those
numbers by five overnight this is a guy who's a good fighter a good talker he
looks the part he's an American heavyweight world champion no one knows who he is
he's lacking a promoter big time and I'm trying to help him in that respect
so I'm hoping that a lot of the bluster that he gives off he's not necessarily
real blustered because if it is it will dilute his mind to not sign a fight which
is not what we want.
Can this fight happen if he sticks firm to the 50-50
Oh no certainly not no but that's the initial
the fights not happening everyone's calling me out I'm this I'm that listen everybody knows I
mean this for me is a 70/30 fight okay you've got a guy who has 4 world
championship belts and a guy who has one world champ and I know yes two belts
the WBC World Championship and the Instagram heavyweight world championship
of the world that's a new belt I've created for so him so 70/30 in my opinion you've
got guys making ten times what the other guys making so but I'm not disrespecting
Wilder like he's a great fighter he has massive value in the fight he's a
world champion and we want that belt so i felt like 70/30 was fair I see some other stuff
saying it should be 65/35 they've not said it should be 60/40. 50/50 like it's not even
there won't even be a discussion so we'll see we're gonna fight Povetkin he
will fight someone else and then we will reconvene but in the meantime Deontay
Wilder could sign the contract today and the fight would be done so the
fact that he's agreed all these terms and now he won't sign a contract gives
me a very good indication of the truth and the reality of the situation