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At least they’re looking for a replacement rather than just cancelling the card.

Eddie knows, as we all do, that without AJ, the card would have to be pulled from PPV, and without all that cash, Eddie could be on a loser once the other fighters are paid.
 
They need PPV to pay AJ but without a credible opponent, can they justify putting it on PPV and will the masses buy into it? It's not just the PPV but the near 20k people that have sold out the o2 including many 5 figure ringside seats too. You can imagine there will be a lot of requests for refunds (both tickets and ppv) if they put him in with somebody Joe public's never heard of.

I'm sure they're going to try to find somebody and try and justify keeping it on PPV but it might be easier to just run the card without AJ.
 
Rumours are going around that it could be Chisora. Not a fight I’d want to see but it would be easy to sort out and one thing you can guarantee is that Chisora would give it his all.

I think it’s a case of making the best out of a bad situation, you won’t please everyone but what’s new with that.
 
BaZ87 said:
They need PPV to pay AJ but without a credible opponent, can they justify putting it on PPV and will the masses buy into it? It's not just the PPV but the near 20k people that have sold out the o2 including many 5 figure ringside seats too. You can imagine there will be a lot of requests for refunds (both tickets and ppv) if they put him in with somebody Joe public's never heard of.

I'm sure they're going to try to find somebody and try and justify keeping it on PPV but it might be easier to just run the card without AJ.
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Can you apply for a refund though? Id imagine it would have a "subject to change" type clause in there.
 
Doobedoo said:
Rumours are going around that it could be Chisora. Not a fight I’d want to see but it would be easy to sort out and one thing you can guarantee is that Chisora would give it his all.

I think it’s a case of making the best out of a bad situation, you won’t please everyone but what’s new with that.
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Its a easy link considering he's on the undercard so is training etc.
 
omnomnom said:
It’s an easy link considering he's on the undercard so is training etc.
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Also this, although I’m not sure how seriously you can take Haye.

boxing-social.com

David Haye: Chisora Told Me Whyte Would Fail Test And Has Been Preparing For Joshua

David Haye has sensationally revealed that Derek Chisora told him Dillian Whyte would fail a drugs test and he would step in to take on Anthony Joshua.
boxing-social.com boxing-social.com

People expecting it to be Hrgovic or Wallin ect are living in dream land. I’m assuming they’ve got a backup plan in place and I’ll also assume AJ will get plenty of stick for it.
 
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BaZ87 said:
I'd be amazed if you couldn't. The card was sold as AJ vs Whyte not AJ vs some Bulgarian milkman.
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This is in their terms :

12.1 AEG or an Organiser may make alterations to Events which are not material in nature. No refunds will be available in respect of non-material alterations.

A “material” change is a change to an Event which in the reasonable opinion of AEG or the Organiser, makes the Event substantially different to the Event which purchasers of the Ticket would reasonably expect to attend. Changes to performance times, supporting acts and the use of understudies in a theatre performance will not be a material change.

If he does fight a Bulgarian milkman is this a substatial difference as its still a "Boxing" fight...
 
From the horses mouth.

“I feel for Eddie, and I feel for ‘AJ’ more than anyone else, but it was the right decision to cancel the event. We’re in discussions with Matchroom and we’ll see what happens. I don’t think anything will get announced until early next week.

This has all played out in the last 24 hours, so we need to get into lots of detail and I think early next week there will be an announcement on that [on whether the show goes ahead.]

Completely depends [if it’s PPV] on opponent, date, all of this needs to be discussed – if it goes ahead next weekend we’ll have to wait and see.”
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omnomnom said:
This is in their terms :

12.1 AEG or an Organiser may make alterations to Events which are not material in nature. No refunds will be available in respect of non-material alterations.

A “material” change is a change to an Event which in the reasonable opinion of AEG or the Organiser, makes the Event substantially different to the Event which purchasers of the Ticket would reasonably expect to attend. Changes to performance times, supporting acts and the use of understudies in a theatre performance will not be a material change.

If he does fight a Bulgarian milkman is this a substatial difference as its still a "Boxing" fight...
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Yes it would be. You can't get a more material change than a change in the main event.
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Haha is he really?, hey don't knock the milkman a few combos aj will be down and gassed.
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No, I was using an exaggerated example of a nobody that might replace Whyte.
 
Nate looked awful, he’s never been a huge puncher in MMA but you’d be forgiven for thinking he’d never done any boxing training in his life off that showing.

Straight forward with his arms up, no pop to his punches, literally like he wasn’t trying to do any damage and just light sparring, no footwork just terrible.

185 won’t have done him any favours but that was like he didn’t take it seriously at all.
 
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