Comments Thread For: Hearn Believes Fury-Whyte Purse Bid Could Be Delayed While WBC Legal Battle Plays Out

[Boro]

Filed where? I keep seeing he was guaranteed 4 million against povetkin so I really don’t understand where this $400,000 figure is coming from. The only person I’ve heard say 400k is Warren.

Just for the record I think what team fury offered Whyte (5mil plus 20%) is more than fair and Whyte should’ve accepted that deal. I just don’t know where Frank is getting this figure from.

He didn't get a £4M guarantee for any fight EVER and most likely never will, Fury highest guarantee up until now has been about £4.5M why on earth would Whyte get anywhere near that.

He'll be lucky if his ever made that as a purse his best performing PPV was 475k at £20 a time = £9.5m 50% of that goes to sky so they'd have £4.75m to pay and I'll be generous and add a further £1m gate so £5.75M - 2.875m + his guarantee which was allegedly £1M but this was arguably his most "stacked" undercard with Chisora vs Takam, KT taylor etc etc it wouldn't of been a "cheap" undercard though to be fair both main event fighters contribute to paying the undercard.

[FlatLine]

How ironic considering Tyson “Nandrolone”Fury was banned for almost 2 years for getting caught juicing with PEDs

Whats interesting about Tyson's ban is that he should have been banned in 2015 as soon as he tested positive for Nandrolone, but he wasn't banned because they somehow managed to delay it. Instead he was allowed to fight on. And who did he fight later that year? Klitschko in a world title fight.
Might be the first time in history someone tested positive for a banned substance but later the same year was allowed to go into a heavyweight world title fight without being banned ..

[Monty Fisto]

Hearn says it in this article. That if it goes 80/20 they're fine with that.

Hearn's quote from this article: "We are not at all happy with the 80-20 split ruling and there is a process now that we have to go through over that to object and that is happening now."

And

"We expect the split to be increased via the process we are going through."

And

"He would accept it once an arbitration or court case has taken place because he feels very strongly. He feels 80-20 is not fair but if the Court of Arbitration decide it is then I think he will proceed."

So we have:

• zero mentions of being fine with it.
• one mention of not being happy with it.
• one mention of it not being fair
• Legal proceedings that formally indicate their objection to it.
• An expectation that the split will be changed.
• An indication that Hearn thinks but does not know that Whyte would proceed with the fight if the court were to say 80-20 was fair, but only in that instance

This is such a huge distance away from being fine with 80-20 right now. Because it is only in the contingency of the independent body ruling 80-20 is fair that they might proceed, a contingency they are confident will not occur.

[bullydean]

Hearn's quote from this article: "We are not at all happy with the 80-20 split ruling and there is a process now that we have to go through over that to object and that is happening now."

And

"We expect the split to be increased via the process we are going through."

And

"He would accept it once an arbitration or court case has taken place because he feels very strongly. He feels 80-20 is not fair but if the Court of Arbitration decide it is then I think he will proceed."

So we have:

• zero mentions of being fine with it.
• one mention of not being happy with it.
• one mention of it not being fair
• Legal proceedings that formally indicate their objection to it.
• An expectation that the split will be changed.
• An indication that Hearn thinks but does not know that Whyte would proceed with the fight if the court were to say 80-20 was fair, but only in that instance

This is such a huge distance away from being fine with 80-20 right now. Because it is only in the contingency of the independent body ruling 80-20 is fair that they might proceed, a contingency they are confident will not occur.

You quoted it yourself. If arbitration deems 80/20 fair then they will go through with the fight anyways. They are fine with 80/20 they're just delaying the fight in the hopes of cashing out and delaying unification.

[JDBarrett]

Except it isn’t. For whatever reason, Fury is happy picking on bums in between his occasional big fights. There’s no run of decent fighters, no string of top-10 opponents. In the 7 years since he beat Wlad, the only name on his resume is Wilder.

Doesn’t matter what the haters say, the simple fact is that Whyte would be the 3rd best name on Fury’s resume - so if Whyte is as terrible as Fury’s fans claim, what does that say?

"undefeated"
/ (ˌʌndɪˈfiːtɪd) /
adjective
1. not having been defeated; the undefeated champion.

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