Comments Thread For: Fury vs. Whyte: Frank Warren Wins Purse Bid With Record $41,025,000

[wrecksracer]

Time for Whyte to put up or shut up. I'm not forgetting that he was starched 2 fights back by Povetkin. People are really thinking he's got a chance? He's out of his league here.

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I've always been a fan of Fury and while the fight really wasn't close on the scorecards, I'd have to agree it was that bad and that fight gets stopped on pretty much any other night.

I only picked Wallin because I knew Fury would over look him ,obviously Fury defeats him and an inactive Wallin though he’s better then most think . I thought he may defeat Whyte as well idk but posters are to fanboyish no logic ,look at mr steroid on here he hasn’t stated one fact it’s all emotion and projection .

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and fury fought chisora left handed the whole fight

Fury is ambidextrous fighting lefty or righty doesn’t really matter ,back then he used the southpaw position more .

[FaustoGeraci]

Hahahahahahahaha wtf is that for a bet? Who’s going to judge his toughest fight? You? You do understand that isn’t how bets work you sausage. Lmfao. You guys. I’m done. I aren’t even responding anymore. Your proper weirdos. I don’t want to be seen corresponding with such fecking mongos

bro I see you giving these trolls that work. Honestly they weren’t worth our energy. Fury is going to smash Whyte. He’s then going to unify vs Usyk after he beats Joshua worse than the first fight. And these trolls will be bringing up the Klitschko rematch and comments Fury made 10 years ago. They are sad. God bless them.

also, great to see a good poster like you and some of the others around. This forum really has some jabronis so I salute you.

[Monty Fisto]

How does the purse bid work, is it a straight 80-20 of the winning bid to each of the fighters?

If that's the case, there's not much of an incentive to try and sell the fight if you're Whyte

The WBC rules for purse bids:

The net purse offer (after deduction of all sanction
fees payable to the WBC hereunder) shall be divided as follows:
(a) first, 10% of the total shall be set aside as a bonus for the winner of the contest,
then, of the remainder,
(b) 70% of the remaining 90% shall be for the champion and 30% of the remaining
90% shall be for the challenger in title bouts; and
(c) 50% of the remaining 90% to each contender in the case of vacant titles or
elimination bouts;


Except they've gone rogue and made item (b) an 80/20 split.

So 10% if the $41m goes to the winner. Leaving 0.9 x 41 = $37m to be split, ignoring sanction fees.

80% goes to Fury = $29.6m (notionally)
20% goes to Whyte = $7.4m

GBPUSD is about 1.34 currently, so this works out as 5.5m quid.

To put it in context, Whyte got a guaranteed 4m quid to fight Povetkin.

As some additional info: the UK record record for PPVs is around 1.5m buys and the going rate is no higher than 25 quid. They could easily do 1.2m buys at 25quid to generate $40m straight off the bat. If they stage it in Cardiff with 78k spectators at 50 quid a pop, that's another $5m in the bag. This is probably a conservative estimate. You have $45m right there. In the UK, i'd estimate Whyte as contributing way more than 20% to these numbers, so I think he's being short changed, to be honest.

[Albanianboxing]

WOWWWWW!!! Fury purse is going to be huge!!! Poor Ngannou...

[FaustoGeraci]

The WBC rules for purse bids:

The net purse offer (after deduction of all sanction
fees payable to the WBC hereunder) shall be divided as follows:
(a) first, 10% of the total shall be set aside as a bonus for the winner of the contest,
then, of the remainder,
(b) 70% of the remaining 90% shall be for the champion and 30% of the remaining
90% shall be for the challenger in title bouts; and
(c) 50% of the remaining 90% to each contender in the case of vacant titles or
elimination bouts;


Except they've gone rogue and made item (b) an 80/20 split.

So 10% if the $41m goes to the winner. Leaving 0.9 x 41 = $37m to be split, ignoring sanction fees.

80% goes to Fury = $29.6m (notionally)
20% goes to Whyte = $7.4m

GBPUSD is about 1.34 currently, so this works out as 5.5m quid.

To put it in context, Whyte got a guaranteed 4m quid to fight Povetkin.

As some additional info: the UK record record for PPVs is around 1.5m buys and the going rate is no higher than 25 quid. They could easily do 1.2m buys at 25quid to generate $40m straight off the bat. If they stage it in Cardiff with 78k spectators at 50 quid a pop, that's another $5m in the bag. This is probably a conservative estimate. You have $45m right there. In the UK, i'd estimate Whyte as contributing way more than 20% to these numbers, so I think he's being short changed, to be honest.

Good post, but in the US I think it does at least 200k buys if they do a presser over there, with ESPN support and hype. It should do closer to 400k but I’m not sure with the time difference. And ALL of that is thanks to Fury. Nobody has ever heard of Whyte. Fury would do bigger numbers in the UK vs Usyk then he would against Whyte.

[Monty Fisto]

Good post, but in the US I think it does at least 200k buys if they do a presser over there, with ESPN support and hype. It should do closer to 400k but I’m not sure with the time difference. And ALL of that is thanks to Fury. Nobody has ever heard of Whyte. Fury would do bigger numbers in the UK vs Usyk then he would against Whyte.

Yes, Fury much bigger in the US than Whyte, totally agree.

Disagree that Usyk vs Fury would generate more in the UK -- edited to add: it's possible if it was the big undisputed fight they could sell it on that, but there's no way you'd put that undisputed contest in the UK. It would happen in Vegas.

[Clive Davenport]

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[FaustoGeraci]

Yes, Fury much bigger in the US than Whyte, totally agree.

Disagree that Usyk vs Fury would generate more in the UK -- edited to add: it's possible if it was the big undisputed fight they could sell it on that, but there's no way you'd put that undisputed contest in the UK. It would happen in Vegas.

For sure it would be in Vegas or I guess Saudi Arabia. But I’m saying if Fury and Usyk were to fight right now in the UK, it would do bigger numbers than vs Whyte.