Eddie Hearn on AJ and Sela
Eddie Hearn confirms Anthony Joshua is paid for the July 25 match against Kristian Prenga. A reply to an addendum sent to Sela arrived about two days ago after two months of negotiations. Tax concerns mean a US venue would deplete the net purse, which is why the team wants it in Wimbledon instead. Relations remain amicable despite the opponent's insistence on America. Hearn has no idea if the deal finalizes but hopes they choose Wimbledon. #EddieHearn
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Is AJ even paid yet? Yeah, we're all good from the last fight and we're all moving forward amicably. We don't want to do the fight in the US, but we also understand it has to work for everybody. And at the same time, we're basically being told, if you don't do the fight, we only want to do the fight in the US. Which we don't agree with, we don't understand. We've been banging our head against the wall on that for the last two months. So, like I said, we've set out our position mainly in concern to the tax situation that will deplete his net purse by going to America, which can be rectified. I think they're happy to do that. Everything else is, there's no abnormal requests. It's up to them. There's nothing else to discuss. Are you confident you'll get it over the line? I've no idea. I mean, I think so. But our dream and our hope is they just turn around and go, this is too messy, we'll just do it in Wimbledon. But they're adamant, adamant that they want to fight in America. When did they get back to you? About two or three days ago, something like that. Two days ago, I don't know.
