Parklaner81
Steve Hodge
I don't think he's scared of Wilder at all, I think he see's the huge increase in £££££ if Wilder gets past someone the casuals may actually know in a fight on Sky Sports that doesn't start at 3am.
I don't see it that way at all. Wilder is already far and away the biggest fight out there for Joshua, with Whyte arguably the second biggest. Putting those two up against each other will almost certainly diminish (and possibly eliminate) one of those potential fights, for questionable gain to the other. Wilder has just beaten Luis Ortiz - a far bigger scalp than Whyte in my opinion. Wilder fighting Whyte is high risk/low reward for him.
The way it appears to me is that if Hearn's true concern was maximising the biggest fights for Joshua, he'd be keeping these two apart.