Wow, the Sho card this weekend is one of more expensive ones

400k viewers .. its the new fab to lose money

Anybody know what the ratings were for this fight? The number I heard was 600k. I read that on here somewhere and I google searched it and nothing came up on the first page

Anybody know what the ratings were for this fight?

How can you blame Guerrero for this? Why fight high-risk Thurman when you can get $1 million for fighting an unknown, low risk opponent? Maidana only got $1.5 million for fighting the PPV queen. Talk about fake lottery.

Now I understand why Guerrero didn't fight Thurman and it makes perfect sense from a fighter's perspective. He's getting 1 million to fight Kamegai and then he can make another million fighting Thurman or another top contender. If he fought Thurman now, he would still make a million (or a little more) but would probably lose and his next fight he would only make about 200,000. If you're already guaranteed a million to fight anyone, why would someone fight a serious threat for just about the same amount of money. He has to fight a legit fighter next though. Obviously, from a fans perspective, this fight isn't up to par. He should've had to fight a certain level of competition to get the million guarantee. I think Guerrero will fight a tougher opponent next. I'm skeptical that it will be Thurman though maybe Khan or Devon. That's the thing though, I'm a fan and can can only give u a fans opinion. Idc to see get a soft touch in his next fight. I wanna see the best fights possible. It's smart for him to go about it he way he did, I agree but I rather see him fight a top fighter.

Well he had togive money up for being fat...8 pounds over I think He always would've made less than Blades though. He's now making 12000 because he has to pay Blades 1500 and the commission 1500. I don't think there's anyway to justify him making less than Blades. Supposedly, the contracted weight was 179 but who knows when that was written or rewritten.

RG getting a million to fight a bum??? Lol sad **** man. Gd for him but that's ridiculous.

Now I understand why Guerrero didn't fight Thurman and it makes perfect sense from a fighter's perspective. He's getting 1 million to fight Kamegai and then he can make another million fighting Thurman or another top contender. If he fought Thurman now, he would still make a million (or a little more) but would probably lose and his next fight he would only make about 200,000. If you're already guaranteed a million to fight anyone, why would someone fight a serious threat for just about the same amount of money. He has to fight a legit fighter next though. Obviously, from a fans perspective, this fight isn't up to par. He should've had to fight a certain level of competition to get the million guarantee. I think Guerrero will fight a tougher opponent next. I'm skeptical that it will be Thurman though maybe Khan or Devon.

According to Dan Rafael, Dawson is getting 15K and Blades is getting 20K. Yes, Dawson is getting paid less than George Blades. Well he had togive money up for being fat...8 pounds over I think

Lol why are people blaming haymon. How many of those guys are with haymon and how many of them are getting over paid? There are a group of posters that are complaining haymon is getting his fighters too much while not complaining that the managers of their favorite Hbo fighter isn't getting them enough. It sort of makes it clear what their real problem is. I wonder if on their jobs they complain if their manager tries to get them a raise?

Lol why are people blaming haymon. How many of those guys are with haymon and how many of them are getting over paid?

All the news and articles that's been written about Haymon are verified in this Guerrero card, that is overpaying his fighters for fighting inferior opponents. Then when such fighters are asked to fight high risk opponents, they price themselves out to the point of the fight not getting made. As generally acknowledged, Haymon did it before with HBO and now with SHO. Seems to me that this Haymon guy is only interested in doing short-term business and has done damage to this sport.

well, it is a televised tripleheader, right? still, that's embarrassing. the best fight on the card is obviously loma and russel JR. those two may very well deliver.

i agree. it pisses me off though when a guy who won multiple world titles like dawson gets paid peanuts and untested prospects like loma and russell are making more than half a mil each in a title fight neither one of them deserve. dawson is one fight removed from being the lineal 175lb champ ffs. loma is coming off a loss too, making him 1-1 and he gets rewarded with another free title shot and more than half a mil while chad gets like 15k? disgusting.. and not just because im a dawson fan, we all know its BS. say what you want about chad but he paid his dues at world level. how the **** are these untested dudes making so much more than him? dude getting screwed worse than whoever owns the all you can eat buffet he went to after the weigh in. Thank Richard Schaefer for the high pay day. Dawson must not have thanked haymon hard enough

people forget haymon takes a cut from these purses another reason why showtime needs to fire their head of boxing, the guy has already lost the network over 40 million combined in 2 fights of the big 3 fights he signed off now he is paying millions for rubbish fights, just insane at how much richard and haymon are robbing companies, first they stole golden boy fighters and tried to buy out the companies fighters that were left and people still make it out like they are the good guys and now they are also milking showtime

JSK/Kamegai would of been better. Casper/Alexander loser gets cut.

$1.5 million plus a percentage of the ppv sales. You mean 1.5m plus zero. Wonder what that adds up to

I think Loma vs Russell should be the main event. All the other matchups are trash I don't think Alexander-Karass is a bad fight. It's probably going to be boring, but I'm intrigued by the result of it. Karass is a solid gatekeeper type guy and after Alexander lost to Porter I really want to see where he is at this point of his career. Let's be honest here, if Alexander does lose, he'll probably be on ESPN2 or FS1 for quite a while. Guerrero fight is trash.

I can't understand some of the responses here. We all want the fighters to get paid well. When they do get paid, we are complaining against their purses. If anything, I thought many of them are being underpaid. Why the hell do you care what Showtime does? Obviously, they can afford it. It's their show. i agree. it pisses me off though when a guy who won multiple world titles like dawson gets paid peanuts and untested prospects like loma and russell are making more than half a mil each in a title fight neither one of them deserve. dawson is one fight removed from being the lineal 175lb champ ffs. loma is coming off a loss too, making him 1-1 and he gets rewarded with another free title shot and more than half a mil while chad gets like 15k? disgusting.. and not just because im a dawson fan, we all know its BS. say what you want about chad but he paid his dues at world level. how the **** are these untested dudes making so much more than him? dude getting screwed worse than whoever owns the all you can eat buffet he went to after the weigh in.

Guerrero does not deserve 1m. Sheeeeyyat mofo barely deserves 1K