YOu have to remember that he won the Gold medal thus the name The Golden Boy, which means he was already a hot commidoity coming into the pros. Then you combine that with his looks and the fact that he's not fighting the #1 boxer in his 1st fight, and you will see that he never got the lesser amount of money or 50/50. Shoot, Tito beat him on the cards and they never had a rematch because Oscar still wanted to **** Tito in negotiations and Tito was an undefeated money making super star himself who had already beat Oscar. That tells you how large Oscar was
To me, if you lose the first match you shouldn't get the bigger cut unless there are other factors.
Like the fighter who beat you taking a decline in their career or a su****ious win. Even if you improve a lot you're the challenger with a point to prove.
Against Whitaker and Chavez he may have recieved the smaller purse.
Oscar was a tough people to negiotate with, He should have taken less or 50-50 for the Tito rematch and the Mosley third fight imo, I like the fact that both Tito and Mosley looked the other way when he refuse to do that even though they went on to lose to B-hop and Winky.
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