Comments Thread For: Fury-Whyte Heads To January 11 Purse Bid; WBC Sets 80/20 Split

[WBC WBA IBF]

Well that strategy certainly backfired on Arum with the Teofimo Lopez/George Kambosos fight.

Lopez refused to cooperate and he got taught a lesson.

In any case, you are still averting the issue which is Whyte's $10M demand. If there is no $10M there will be no fight. Yes, they can pay Fury whatever they want but what about Dillian? Do you really believe that Top Rank will acquiesce by allowing themselves to be extorted and arm-twisted by Dillian Whyte's demand of $10?.

Whyte's demand is completely irrelevant. The fight is going to be auctioned to the highest bidder. It doesn't matter what Whyte wants. Whyte will get 20% of the highest bid (and possibly have to share some of that with Hearn). I'm not sure why you keep bringing up the $10 million. The fight is going to purse bid. It doesn't matter what Whyte wants. He gets 20% of the winning bid.

[mexiFistology]

Correct....and a rematch to beat Covid recovery and old now retired Povetkin. Whyte and Joshua should be fighting now but instead both are standing in the way , thanks to Eddie Hearn of the fight that everyone now wants to see Fury v Usyk !

You couldn’t say it best

[champion4ever]

Lopez refused to cooperate and he got taught a lesson.




Whyte's demand is completely irrelevant. The fight is going to be auctioned to the highest bidder. It doesn't matter what Whyte wants. Whyte will get 20% of the highest bid (and possibly have to share some of that with Hearn). I'm not sure why you keep bringing up the $10 million. The fight is going to purse bid. It doesn't matter what Whyte wants. He gets 20% of the winning bid.

History has shown that Top Rank doesn't like to do purse bids though.They like to keep everything in-house. They would be rolling the dice by allowing this fight to go to a purse bid in my judgement. They stand to lose too much.

I don't know everything but there's one thing I do know and that is DAZN's boxing budget is a lot bigger than ESPN's boxing budget. Taking this fight to a purse bid could be too risky of a proposition; Anything could happen.

[MC Hammer]

He could always go after the other belts
....

Oh wait... he already turned down title shots for all of those too. Lol...

Agreed, Whyte is a clown, but to lower purse splits this way feels like false advertisement. Like if I had been paying a certain sanction fee for a shot at the belt under the assumption I'd get a certain minimum split, and that gets changed, it would appear to me that the whole agreement had been changed. I should get a certain percentage of those fees back.

[PRINCEKOOL]

History has shown that Top Rank doesn't like to do purse bids though.They like to keep everything in-house. They would be rolling the dice by allowing this fight to go to a purse bid in my judgement. They stand to lose too much.

I don't know everything but there's one thing I do know and that is DAZN's boxing budget is a lot bigger than ESPN's boxing budget. Taking this fight to a purse bid could be too risky of a proposition; Anything could happen.

Interesting, so Eddie Hearn is tactically forcing this to purse bids. Which will see Tyson Fury get his 80's, but TopRank losing the fight 'If Hearn wins the bid'.

So Tyson Fury will be content, but Top Rank will lose out.

So this is potentially forcing ESPN or Top Rank whatever, into increasing the split for Dillian Whyte 'Getting both fighters to agree, and then staging the fight on ESPN?'.

Note: I don't much follow or obsess over these sort of things, but I suppose this is the game at play?

[Shadoww702]

Will be very difficult for DAZN to win the bid. ESPN has a huge advantage. They can cut a side deal with Fury that he'll make his $17 million for the fight and put in a crazy big where they'll just get rebated some of the money. Happens all the time when the A-side has a split heavily in their favor.

Will DAZN be willing to bid $25-30 million?

Yeah the bid is going to have to be in the $20 million range.

Fury going to want close to 20 and that will leave Whyte around 4 mil.

plus ppv splits. Pretty expensive fight.

[Shadoww702]

History has shown that Top Rank doesn't like to do purse bids though.They like to keep everything in-house. They would be rolling the dice by allowing this fight to go to a purse bid in my judgement. They stand to lose too much.

I don't know everything but there's one thing I do know and that is DAZN's boxing budget is a lot bigger than ESPN's boxing budget. Taking this fight to a purse bid could be too risky of a proposition; Anything could happen.

Yeah this most likely will backfire on ESPN.

Bob Arum I don't think cares he get his %.

I wonder how ppv splits go when you win the bid??? I assume now it will be in the UK. Which ppv splits will be a lot closer...

[WBC WBA IBF]

Yeah the bid is going to have to be in the $20 million range.

Fury going to want close to 20 and that will leave Whyte around 4 mil.

plus ppv splits. Pretty expensive fight.

Fury is only owed $17 million for the last fight of his deal. He was guaranteed $100 million for five fights and has made $83 million so far. Top Rank claimed $5.5 million was 25%, which would mean $16.5 million is 75%.

[greeneye99]

I don't think this fight will go to a purse bid. Top Rank won't want to throw money at a UK fight and Warren won't want to risk losing it to Matchroom/DAZN. I think Whyte will be offered more than 20% and a deal will be struck. He won't be getting 45% though!

Let's hope there are no fucking rematch clauses this time.

Fight has officially gone to a Purse Bid
Just watched an interview and Bob Arum has no issues with the fight being staged in the UK
I guess that's where Frank Warren comes in
Fyi
Espn is only involved if the fight is staged in the USA