ESPN FIRST TAKE | Anthony Joshua DEBATE What is your response to deontay wilder?

[@elijahkinginotu6854]

Anthony Joshua showing respect these haters too much.

[@Badaman345]

You can see AJ just wants to shut all these guys up in the ring now

[@timellis2459]

@jim calhoun you fucking wish mate. Joshua's comming to RIP that belt off that clown "your American heroes a ducking coward

[@ezekielthemack]

The only thing I saw is how scared AJ is when Deontay Wilder's name is mentioned. Wilder is going to knock him the fuck out.

[@metinotje]

It's not that easy my friend. Fury, Wilder, AJ and Ortiz are the four dangerous fighters at the moment. From this 4 anyone can beat anyone.

[@timellis2459]

@@ezekielthemack lol how do you work that out everytime Joshua mentioned to wilder "he turns into a stuttering mess 🤣🤣 your in denial my friend "the facts are all stacking up as to who the real coward is and he goes by the name of Beyonce 🦆🦆🦆🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️

[@franklinsainthustle5285]

@jim calhounThe peoples champion Deontay Wilder is gonna embarrass this bloated joke of Brit!!! A.J. knows his chin is gonna get taken as soon as A.J.'s scared ass signs the contract!

[@skicaliph]

The look on AJs face at 2:26 lol you can almost feel his blood boiling inside but he never breaks character I’m sure he’s gonna handle business in the ring once and for all.

[@ejd7881]

really. he's a BLM bum

[@Tomc12345]

AJ should stop being so nice about Wilder and Fury and should just expose these fools, Wilders manager said 2 weeks ago that AJ has made 4 offers to them, the last of them being 40 mil, that’s wilders manager words

[@scottburbridge8378]

That's how he is tho he just wants to beat them up in the ring

[@Tomc12345]

Scott Burbridge can’t just let people slander you though

[@scottburbridge8378]

@Chris_Gullett Joshua has never said a fight with him isn't big his said he wants undisputed fight with wilder then he would give tyson fury a fight

[@scottburbridge8378]

@Chris_Gullett he got booed cause he said he wanted wilder and whyte was in the ring the UK wanted him fight whyte at Wembley but whyte turned it down do you know how big fury vs joshua is in uk course he wants that fight he just wants the other belt which is quite hard wen the guy with the other belts is already pencilling in fights to fight ortiz in september

[@scottburbridge8378]

@Chris_Gullett Joshua talks too much lol as oppose to fury and wilder

[@vibesNstuff]

the bouncer just beat him

[@usxnews1834]

AJ been collecting belts since day, half the time pro of the other two big names and is already the biggest earner. He don’t need to chase these guys - so why is he? Because the man wants to prove himself, and for that he has my respect.

[@allsportsmediatv]

He needed to fight them then like he does now. His legacy is trash he has not fought the other best fighters

[@mousehead2000]

He's talking like Ruiz is already beaten. That's what lost him the fight.

[@elephantintheroom7557]

Wilder is annoyed that AJ selling out MSG while wilder giving out free tickets in the barkleys 😂😂

[@robertblake1228]

Max should know better...wilder was offered $40M to fight AJ..

[@jefflin1400]

He was offered 100 mil back to back with Joshua, and he’s still going on about how Joshua’s ducking him till this day.

[@hende8445]

@@jefflin1400 actually he waas offered more than 100 mill with asured 2 fights with AJ...

[@punchforpound2808]

In my opinion, he does know better, he's just a shill for the American and Mexican stars because that's what the "old order" of the boxing establishment still believes in. Boxing in 2019 is still the one sport that is run like some racist colonial town from 1950. The top foreign stars mostly seem to just be used by the boxing establishment to get fans interested in American or Mexican stars by waiting until the foreign stars are old before letting them fight the American or Mexican stars and then if that's still not enough to help the American or Mexican stars win, they'll just rob the old guy on the scorecards since most old boxers lose the speed and power necessary to actually knock out the top American or Mexican boxers (especially since many of the top boxers from all over the world are probably on PEDs, making them much harder to knock out). The boxing establishment has failed to evolve at all. They still seem to believe that only Americans and Mexicans are safe bets to consistently sell lots of tickets and PPVs and generate big money, even though reality has shown otherwise. Despite getting far less opportunity on average, many foreign boxers have still quickly become the biggest economic stars in the sport. Pacquiao (the only one who got fair opportunities coming up until they denied him the Floyd fight in his prime, which stalled Pacquiao from becoming potentially the first billion dollar fighter over his career in his history, but until then he at least got lots of opportunities in his prime vs the biggest American or Mexican names. The next name did not), GGG, Joshua, these are all foreign boxers who became top 5 economic stars in the entire sport, yet the biased 1850's attitude Boxing Establishment ignores them. Lomachenko was also denied many opportunities, which is why only now at 31 years old, the end of his prime, is he finally becoming a big economic star. But he still is, and it would have happened a lot sooner with fair opportunity. Kovalev was on the road to superstardom before someone in the boxing establishment killed his one prime legacy fight, Stevenson, then another one, Ward, was delayed until Kovalev was past prime, then they still robbed him to top it all off lol. But had he gotten the Stevenson fight and won, and/or gotten the decision against Ward, he would have reached P4P #1 in the sport after Floyd's retirement and become a huge financial star in the sport as well because he would not have just been P4P #1, he would have been one of the most entertaining to watch fighters EVER to reach P4P #1 in the history of the sport. So there is no rational reason for the Boxing Establishment to favor local boxers over foreign boxers, but they always do, and since Max has in my opinion acted as sort of an unofficial spokesman for the Boxing Establishment going back to his time at HBO, which may be why they ousted Larry Merchant for no reason and gave his job to Max, that would explain a lot of the things he says about boxing, the ridiculous positions he takes, or that he may guide his coworkers into taking. Was it him or Steven A who said Joshua and Wilder are the two top dogs of the division even though Fury clearly beat Wilder, which makes Wilder #3 behind Fury and Joshua? That's just the latest example of the kind of manipulations the "Boxing Establishment" regularly takes part in. The more people become hardcore fans of boxing and really pay attention to this stuff, the more they will start to see them do it all the time in my opinion. And in my opinion Max, as I said, is a frontman for the Boxing Establishment, and he almost always takes the position that the Boxing Establishment thinks is in its economic or nationalistic interest, or whatever their internal motivations are who can say for sure from the outside, but if it really is just about economics and not something else, they must have never taken a single economics class because they constantly prioritize less marketable local boxers over more marketable foreign boxers.

[@jefflin1400]

Ben Dev I didn’t know, from what I learnt he was offer 120 mil, 20 for Brazil which was gonna happen anyway, then 100 back to back with Joshua, I could be wrong of course. Stupid amount of money all the same though! You know what’s more ironic? He turned the whole thing down, then went on to make 10 mil fighting Brazil, with no signs of taking on Joshua any time soon. If 100 mil was not enough, why not make Joshua an offer? I thought he said he wanted the fight and it was and still is Joshua ducking him...... All I want is seeing the fight as a fan!

[@timellis2459]

@@jefflin1400 Exatly "wilder has the brass neck to go on national TV saying they tried to make the fight 5 times. What a complete load of bollox. All the offers have came from team Joshua "and that chump has refused all of them. Accept for the first offer that he and his team accepted all the terms and then bottled to sign the contract. Wilder is a lying "ducking coward. 🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️

[@danjumasblue]

AJ's response "Why sit here and talk about it? Let's just meet in the ring and get it on. Talk is cheap now, I done enough of that talking business! I am fighter and that is where I want to handle my business. Deontay Wilder when you ready, come see me at a table, dont go through your promoters no more, come and sit with me, man to man across a table and then lets get this fight sorted...there is no pitty patty, who said, she said..it is me and him, mano a mano and hopefully we can negotiate this fight ourselves!"......Over to you Wilder and the Wilderettes!

[@marlok4444]

jim calhoun as soon as Wilder hears this he goes and announces the Ortiz fight 🤣🦆🦆🦆

[@danjumasblue]

@jim calhoun Who is Wilder fighting next? Why does Wilder not say he wants to fight AJ? Please go and keep yourself update before you speak because you look like a fool now. Wilder vs Ortiz 2 is a disgrace!

[@timellis2459]

@@danjumasblue Boom theres the kill shot 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@MECEY3284]

Wilderettes??!?!!🤣🤣🤣

[@sufamidan1006]

Wilder fans will twist this into AJ ducking despite it being the most concrete, sound “I WANT WILDER” you will find. 😂

[@jsn23nc]

Bitch he ducking Wilder

[@marlok4444]

jsn23nc as soon as wilder saw this he ran to Instagram to announce the Ortiz fight... who’s ducking?

[@mrboombastic6527]

@@jsn23nc bum squad hiding behind his sofa

[@TheBaconBasket1]

@@mrboombastic6527 Hiding from who? The guy who gave a belt to the first mexican heavyweight champ lol...

[@richardking8031]

To bad he just got stopped 🤦🏽‍♂️

[@zeizaze5159]

Too bad he just came back and schooled Ruiz, hope you pipe down now and give credit where its due.

[@TG-nhl]

Zeiza Ze he won by decision chill tf out and he got knocked tf out in the first fight vs ruiz

[@ceezar2759]

@@TG-nhl he really didnt get knocked out tho

[@christophercudiamat5695]

there should be some kind of playoffs in boxing so fighters cant duck each other

[@YaMommasNextDoorNeighbor]

Can not and will never be that way. Professional boxing isn't a league like the NFL or NBA or NHL, etc......Boxers are their own company. They hire promoters, managers, etc.... the same way a business would have a marketing team and things like that. They negotiate fights the same way any company would negotiate any business proposition that involves them to merge or co-exist with another company. The point of negotiation is to maximize your profit as much as possible within the agreement vs the other company. Thus boxing has a lot of politics surrounding each matchup, even if it's not a title bout. The closes we would get to a playoff is the mandatory fights for each belt within a weight class that requires the holder to face whatever top contender for that belt. And even with that, the holder of that belt can avoid that match up by moving up or down in weight class to fight someone else or just refusing to accept the match up in the mandatory, thus giving up the belt..... Canelo, Mayweather, De La Hoya, Sugar Ray, Marquez, etc.... have all done this in their careers. The biggest fights in boxing happen within the negotiations. What we see in the ring is the final stages. Thus the reason you can see multiple guys within one weight class, dominate for almost a decade together, but never face each other.

[@bronxbomerpito7286]

The alpha 😂😂😂😂😂

[@damionbacchus3131]

Anthony Joshua can't spend 10 seconds without mentioning team or Eddie hearn. That man can't make a decision with out Eddie.

[@edneg1951]

ANNNNND THE NEEEEEW HEAAAVY WEIGHT CHAMPION OF THE WOOOOORLD, ANDY "VIVA MEXICO" RUIZ JR!!!! LUV HIS COMMENT ♥️❤️ FOR HIS MOM! " I LOVE YOU MOM, WE NOT GONNA STRUGGLE ANYMORE!". TRUE CHAMP!

[@thehiphopprophet]

Tyson Fury was proven right

[@lloydsmith5786]

wilder avoiding the fury and Aj right he just announced today he fighting rematch against Ortiz in fall

[@ezekielthemack]

LLoyd get your facts right! Fury was offered a re-match by Wilder and CHOSE to fight the bum that is Shcwarz. Stop pulling facts out of your ass. Damn fool.

[@tomabela7949]

How did wilder avoid fury then

[@juice3185]

80,000 seater but only the ref can see the boxers...smdh

[@jaygonzalez8575]

First Mexican heavyweight champion

[@goinghardinthepaint9284]

Duck squad at it again.....AJ is the real deal...and I'm from the U.S.A

[@Johnsor21]

yo momma told me to say it well....AJ just got his ass beat by the guy who makes my tacos

[@dellajoseph1008]

Aj is a Bum

[@EcuaBLOOD69]

Hahahahaha

[@goinghardinthepaint9284]

I spoke to soon🤦🏿‍♂️🤦🏿‍♂️🤦🏿‍♂️

[@kalabasrate9578]

Tyson and wilder said it all...when u ready now u got too come... now ur the 3rd guy cheasing them sheshhh life when u think u got it but it well knock u out...I love u jash this shit hurt but this will make u a monster mentality. Physically u good...but mentally u need to work hard or u have to be re burn with it ....find ur faith back u good. Blance the left and the right brain the 3rd eye and come back again. Win all 3 big fight

[@ashmillions2356]

Should of put them all on blast specially Bronze Bummer

[@practicepatience8029]

USA VS UK

[@the36jmeable]

He probably gave him an offer that wasn't fair for wilder , because A.J thinks hes Mayweather. And AJ wants everything in his favor, guaranteed.

[@seyioloyede1991]

Justified cos AJ was a bigger draw globally & he had 4 of the 5 belts.

[@WTC-1990]

when he is putting laughable offers on the table with a 80 / 20 split, put a 60 / 40 on the table and they will fight you, stop running

[@tomabela7949]

80/20

[@practicepatience8029]

Ortiz on late notice USA VS UK

[@Scoobay]

Practice Patience Ortiz is Cuban.

[@practicepatience8029]

@@Scoobay Ortiz fight on USA tv only!!!! Team USA. Ortiz is respected here bro. He lives in Miami, Fl not Cuba just so you know 💪

[@ibrahimmail5749]

Max and Stephen are such hypocrites pretending like they don’t know what’s going on, and why do they keep removing the video once the view count goes up?

[@juice3185]

Gypsy King will dismantle AJ...and resume's don't fight....AJ lacks footwork,hand speed and head movement,something Lala Ali pointed out some time ago...

[@patrickstewart9937]

2:45 AJ looked pissed

[@dsshawkyshawk2788]

Little disappointed how this interview went. Looked like Stephen a molly and max tried to bait aj into a reaction from the rip. Wanted all those questions asked but warm him up first lol

[@practicepatience8029]

Wilder vs Ortiz 2 has been announced. Aj gotta see Fury or fuck the BS

[@practicepatience8029]

USA

[@pepito7285]

Just here for the he got tko'd last night comments

[@victoroleru1976]

AJ stop respecting this guys they have spoilt your name enough building up their dead career off the back of your success....Look Wilder has announced that he is fighting Ortiz Next what a shame...

[@barrywilson3643]

If you AJ/Hearn MORONS was so concern about Deontay Wilder EASILY beating GLASS JAW Joshua to "unify" the other Tyson Fury 3 VACATED belts that Eddie Hearn PURCHASED for him then you "butt hurt" 😂 angry MORONS should have been pulling for the "unification" fight for UNDISPUTED last year in 2018 when Team Wilder made that "guaranteed" 50 MILLION DOLLAR career payday offer UPFRONT with a 50/50 backend split to FACE that Wilder RIGHT HAND 😆 here in America 🇺🇸 instead of making up EXCUSES about the money wasn't REAL, the BT Sport money SPIEL or Deontay Wilder ONLY deserves 12 million dollars 😂 for a fight that worth over 100 MILLION DOLLARS "PLUS" here in America 🇺🇸. FOH...MORONS!!! 😂 KARMA IS NOW A B***H NAME EDDIE HEARN & ANTHONY JOSHUA...😂😂😂 NOW "BOW DOWN" TO AL HAYMON & DEONTAY WILDER WHO ARE NOW THE A-SIDE AND WAIT UNTIL 2020 AS DIRECTED!!!! HAHAHA 🤣👍🏽 NEXT....

[@Scoobay]

Barry Wilson Why are you so happy that Wilder is ducking? Oh, right, because you know he loses v AJ. You know what’s up with the 50M, it was a bluff offer that came as Wilders team and Fury’s team were already in talks. You’re very easily manipulated. You can get on your knees and bow down to your paper champ all you like, but real boxing fans, both English and American, know Wilder’s team are the ones fucking up the division.

[@barrywilson3643]

@@Scoobay 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 You "delusional" ANGRY 😂 AJ/Hearn morons need to be SHOT!!!

[@EcuaBLOOD69]

@@Scoobay hahahajaahajajajaja

[@steveteasdale4928]

Max is a huge wilder fanboy and I’ve never seen him show AJ much respect. But The truth is at last coming through as Wilder once again has proved to everyone he Does NOT want the AJ fight , just announced the rematch with Ortiz. What a fuckin BUM. Allegedly after that it’s Kownacki. So who’s telling the truth is it Eddie, or Finkel and Haymon? After the announcement today we know who’s starving the public for the most anticipated heavyweight fight in years. And it AIN’T fuckin Eddie.

[@allsportsmediatv]

This is why he got smoked 3 times because he is not a dog he is not a natural born fighter. When you fight lower level opps and fighters past their primes you get a chump like this

[@talleyrand9442]

Not take part kinda take over. -kinda Conor McGregor

[@JoeMoses3]

McGregor didn't take over shit. Didn't have one title defense. Not one!

[@talleyrand9442]

@@JoeMoses3 And?? What?

[@JoeMoses3]

@@talleyrand9442 why would you quote McGregor if he didn't even live what he said?

[@talleyrand9442]

@@JoeMoses3 Joshua was the one who said that. Almost a direct quote of Conor McGregor, that's all. If you got a problem take it up with Anthony Joshua, lol.

[@ieatveggiemate1355]

Anthony joshua will knock deontay and Tyson the fuck out

[@McStrokeAvision]

AJ fucking Wilder up

[@titoeduardo7080]

Stephen a your too obsessed with Deontay Wilder. That's your only argument against all debates. Do some research and start asking smarter questions man. You been a reporter for 25 years and the only thing you talk about is Deontay Wilder and Lebron James.

[@bloodcorpsegamer3508]

well he's not undefeated no more you lost

[@kingralphie6857]

Ruiz stephen a !!

[@LorSuefong]

AJ got KO. Lol . And he’s still ducking.

[@dundaz1]

God an after all the wilder acting he dropped himself in the shit and confessed he ducked AJ 🤪

[@Prophet293]

So Wilder/Joshua is basically Lewis/Tyson v2.0 ? British vs American, nice guy vs thug?

[@Reel___]

A Thug is a man who takes up boxing to help raise money for his daughter whos ill and suffers from spina bifida? Hmm, okay then.

[@ethandyerentertainment782]

Joshua = 🤡

[@goldenstandard187]

LOL NOW RUIZ THE CHAMP

[@robjennings9143]

Nope!

[@Mikeyvellii]

😂 😂 😂 😂

[@sams.358]

Wilder will knock Joshua SPARK OUT!

[@punchforpound2808]

I wish First Take would talk about deserving boxers for once, like maybe Oleksandr Usyk. This guy actually fought all the champions in his division and then moved up. That's how a true champion should operate. Why are they giving all this air time to Deontay Wilder who has 40 fights but has still never faced a single A-level, prime, in shape opponent? No one cares that he fought a 60 year old Luis Ortiz or an out of shape Tyson Fury, except for the fact he still almost lost, or did lose, both those fights, exposing what a hypejob he is. Give the air time to actual top boxers who fight actual top prime opponents. Pacquiao, Usyk, Fury, Juan Manuel Marquez, Lomachenko, Prograis and Josh Taylor, Devin Haney is at least saying and doing all the right things so far, Julian 'JRoc' Williams who chased down Jermall Charlo for a fight, lost, then chased down Hurd and won. That's a real champion, not a hype job. Anyone like that, First Take should be talking about. Wilder, they should just tell him, "We'd love to have you back on the show in the future, but only after you actually fucking do something in the sport. Stop ducking, go and fight actual top PRIME IN SHAPE opponents, then win or lose, we'll have you back because you will have earned it. But as long as you're just going to keep fronting while refusing to fight the best, we're not going promote a fraud to our viewers who trust us, so we're not going to have you back. We're not going to betray our viewers trust that has been built over YEARS of hard work just to help promote one fraud supposed athlete and competitor who in reality shows zero interest in competing against the best. Why would we do that?" That's just being fair. They need to stop rewarding PRIVILEGE and start rewarding MERIT. Wilder has coasted along most of his career on PRIVILEGE not actual accomplishments of MERIT (aka prime top opponents) in the ring. If Usyk, JRoc, or any of the names I mentioned tried to do what Wilder has done, they would never be allowed on First Take or any show like that in America. They would never get that opportunity, and rightfully so. But because the WBC engineered Wilder to become their "American Heavyweight Champion" without actually beating the champions of the prior decade, the Klitschkos... Wilder is the only one of the "big three" who refused to fight a Klitschko... now he coasts by on his "American Heavyweight Champion" privilege getting one UNEARNED opportunity after another while boxers like JRoc or Usyk who actually earned it get no such opportunity at all. It's fucked up. We as boxing fans should not support it. You might think it's not a big deal but every time we support shit like this, we're really destroying the sport. The sport wouldn't even be such a mess today if people hadn't supported shit like this for decades before now, but if we ever want it to get better, we have to be a smarter new generation of boxing fans and stop supporting this bullshit.

[@cristianc6802]

@@punchforpound2808 and then he dropped out before his HW debut, sounds like he couldnt make that move up.

[@Thinkingisfree2012]

You obviously believe that more than Wilder does because he's doing everything in his power not to take the fight. And if you watch wilder's post match conference after the Dominic Breazeale fight he said himself he does not know if he can knock out Joshua!! FACT

[@mikeyL575]

You believe it more than wilder himself, even he has never said it.

[@sams.358]

Oh please you guys hang on every word and twist them just to make it fit your point of view. Wilder has said multiple times Interviews that he would finish Joshua by knockout. Of course he’s not going to be screaming in the ring saying I’ll knock Joshua out when he’s not even ringside. Y’all are so damn delusional it’s crazy

[@samkeaton5233]

AJ NO MORE CHAMPION, JUST LOST TKO TO ANDY RUIZ

[@dendenn7383]

Well, for all of 10 minutes lol

[@justsaying4488]

Joshua has to fight both to be the legit heavyweight champ. We only want to se Joshua fight wilder and Tyson. That’s it

[@marlok4444]

Patrick Bateman but they won’t fight him

[@jonnyblaze3343]

But it's ok for fight Ortiz 2&3 and Fury can continue to fight butter beans

[@user-ju6kx5hp1w]

This statement makes me laugh because AJ will sell more tickets, ppvs and generally make more money fighting anyone. Yet wilder and Fury will struggle to headline a PPV without AJ 😄

[@justsaying4488]

Mac Z does it still make you laugh😂. Tyson the linear champ

[@user-ju6kx5hp1w]

@@justsaying4488 Yes it does, because the rematch will sell out just like any other fight that can be made. No one lives a life without losses and that's part of the reason why Muhammad Ali will always be seen as the greatest and not Floyd Mayweather. Losses are not what define us, it's what we do afterwards. Humble in victory and humble in defeat. Still a champion in my eyes sorry to disappoint.