Top Rank Offer For Cotto To Face Sergio Martinez is Reportedly 5 Million Guranteed

Yea he is playing it exactly right, especially since he never burned any bridges. Top Rank is in a tough sport the Martinez fight is a big fight no doubt but how much earning potential does it really have compared to Cotto-Canelo which probably has a lot. So Top Rank needs to sweeten the deal but how far can they go without cutting their own throat, same could be said for GBP but I do think they have more margin on the back end. I think Top Rank needs to ask themselves how many PPV buys Cotto-Martinez can make. If they feel it does from 600-700K(That is the number I think it does) can they justify giving Cotto 10 million + the 60-65% he will ask of the purse? They would have to make the fight @ MSG and put a high price tag on the tickets to make a significant profit. GBP on the other side can offer Cotto 10 million and 60% because they know the fight will do 1 million buys and by putting it in Vegas they can make a lot of money on the gate and pretty much pay Cotto's purse on that alone. I think Arum will show Cotto the money just to prevent him from going back to GBP.

I think Top Rank will up the offer before is all set and done but at the end of the day Cotto is playing this in a way no other boxer has done before. He is fighting on 1 fight deals and putting the two big promotional companies and TV networks on a bidding war for his services. If he wins his next fight the purse that will come after that will be almost double what he is getting offered now. Yea he is playing it exactly right, especially since he never burned any bridges. Top Rank is in a tough sport the Martinez fight is a big fight no doubt but how much earning potential does it really have compared to Cotto-Canelo which probably has a lot. So Top Rank needs to sweeten the deal but how far can they go without cutting their own throat, same could be said for GBP but I do think they have more margin on the back end.

Yall can call Martinez a ballerina all you want but he is going to beat the bricks off Cotto

Difference with Cotto now is that he doesn't mind fighting in non-PPV fights. He can fight anyone, actually. No one will care. Whereas Alvarez has to prove he has reached the PPV status. Anything less than Cotto may fail miserably in the box office. The other danger why Schaefer wanted Cotto so bad is because this is boxing. Anything can happen. A low ranked fighter can still pull an upset. That's why Alvarez has to fight Cotto NOW before something bad happens.

Cotto should fight Martinez, then Canelo and finally retire after a rematch against Pacquiao. Legendary career.

i dont know why cotto fans want him to fight sergio, he would get destroyed easy.

i'll take the martinez fight if i were cotto. his stature won't suffer a lot even if sergio beats him knowing that he has to move 1 division up and sergio is a p4p fighter. losing to canelo would make him look like a gatekeeper. if he plans to retire soon and wants to cash out, the canelo fight is more reasonable but if he plans to contine fighting he should fight sergio first. and of course the upside of him winning against martinez is so much more than beating canelo.

I think Top Rank will up the offer before is all set and done but at the end of the day Cotto is playing this in a way no other boxer has done before. He is fighting on 1 fight deals and putting the two big promotional companies and TV networks on a bidding war for his services. If he wins his next fight the purse that will come after that will be almost double what he is getting offered now.

Now that i'm thinking about The Top Rank offer is definitely not true and probably sourced from someone from Golden Girl promotions. Plus Cotto is flying to China for the Pacquaio fight so i'm thinking that's where Cotto and TR start talking about a potential deal

Also Cotto got 8.5 million guranteed to fight Floyd while Canelo only got 5 million. That right there should tell you who got the most drawing power. Yeah that kinda kills the Canelo argument lol.

Canelo is not the B-side to this fight Also Cotto got 8.5 million guranteed to fight Floyd while Canelo only got 5 million. That right there should tell you who got the most drawing power.

"reportedly 5 million" sounds like they got it from some other random unsourced news outlet. I remember Lewkowics said recently they hadn't even negotiated yet.

Canelo is not the B-side to this fight He is easily the B-side. Canelo needs Cotto not the other way. cotto can fight martinez for 5 million +. Before his fight with Mayweather Canelo had not cracked more than 3 million in a fight.

Canelo is not the B-side to this fight Make no mistake, Alvarez is the B-side. Cotto is the one dictating the terms. Schaefer is desperate for Cotto. If Cotto decides to fight Martinez, Alvarez will end up fighting high risk, low reward fighters in GBP's stable. Lara, Trout are hard to sell.

Well Canelo is still B-side so he will probably make less. Plus i expect GBP will be banking on the fight making everything back and some profit Canelo is not the B-side to this fight

The math doesn't add up. How could he make $10 million? Canelo would have to make lile $3 million Well Canelo is still B-side so he will probably make less. Plus i expect GBP will be banking on the fight making everything back and some profit

Did you see the weigh-in yesterday? Ward looked scared for real....I know you can misread people and what not but there was no mistaking his behavior. He couldn't stand still, kept seizing every opportunity to break eye contact with Rodriguez and turned away quickly to face the crowd and Edwin knew it too and smiled right at him like "I know you are scared, I see right through you". I was going to bet a little on Rodriguez but the whole weight issue has me thinking he could end up looking like Dawson did in the ring. I do think that Rodriguez' style is all wrong for Ward and that Ward is underestimating him. I noticed the same thing, don't know if scared but definitely uneasy, right? Then again man I saw Edwin and I don't know if he looks like that for every weigh in but he looked sucked in... I am that kind of person though to read into stares and attitude before a fight... I am trying to look for an interview of Rodriguez after the weigh in to see where his confidence is at. That could get me more pumped up for the fight tonight depending on his energy. Damn, I hadn't read your second paragraph and there we go. Exactly my worry. I hope that he decided to just stop at 170 because it would affect him to try further and not that he tried everything he could and got stuck at 170... We'll see tonight man. I think at his best, Rodriguez can hurt Ward.

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The math doesn't add up. How could he make $10 million? Canelo would have to make lile $3 million ....and your point is? Canelo has not EARNED NOR ACCOMPLISHED JACK ***** in BOXING. Why he needs to make o/a the same or more than Miguel?

Why are you all hating on Martinez so much? Did you all forgot what he has done? He is the champion for a reason