Comments Thread For: Keith Thurman Wanted $10 Million To Fight Jaron Ennis, Says Boots' Father, Trainer Bozy

[Sctrojan]

Neither fighter was getting a guarantee anyway. Bud's pay per view history and track record at the box office sealed that deal for him. Besides, that's not how the PBC operates or conducts its business anyhow.

Unless you are a proven box office Draw like Mayweather, Pacquiao or Canelo then you receive no front end money because it's too risky of a proposition. Al Haymon would go bankrupt investing that type of money in Terence Crawford.

Al Haymon wasn't risking any type of money on Crawford homeboy and Spence was going to be on the recieving end of a much higher split so of course he had no issues. Crawford wanted all expenditures open to him,that's it.So let's not try to rewrite history there.

[MCFM]

Resumes and metrics reflect the pay. If Boots wants the Keith fight, you gotta pay him proper. I’m not excusing Keith at all, he hasn’t boxed for a hot minute and most fans wouldn’t care if he boxes again, but Keith reserves the right for his demand. What offer amount or narrative where Boots’ team even disclosing?

No one in welterweight right now is worth 10mil, esp the pvssies who calls themselve top dogs but wouldnt fight each other..
wtf do u mean proper pay? Lol

[Thuglife Nelo]

No one in welterweight right now is worth 10mil, esp the pvssies who calls themselve top dogs but wouldnt fight each other..
wtf do u mean proper pay? Lol

Sigh.. as stated, Thurman doesn’t need Boots. Thurman is even insinuating Boots’ team can’t afford him. Thurman and DSG have mínimums of $2mil, that’s what PBC guaranteed for them. Thurman also knows the excess amount Wilder received for Breazeale. So Thurman is trolling the amount of figures PBC could do, way before Boots was in the picture. Boots’ team are supposed to disclose a real offer to Thurman, hence a counter offer to the funny 10mil. It’s Keith way of letting them know they’re supposed to offer something lucrative. Boots’ team just headlining amounts that Keith was trolling. With Guarantees, PPV and Gate Keith would make $4-5mil. Can Boots match that? Who’s putting up the money for that?

[hitmanjosh]

That's because Keith a weak ass link, we all know he's trying to cash out due to his past but this will be easy work for Jaron. I can invision Keith being scarred as hell and at one point was saying he had never heard of Boots, but want 10 Mil, get the ****kk outta here, Fool!

[Lefty0616]

I'm not mad at Thurman for asking for $10 million. Thurman is wise. He knows he'll need a retirement plan if he accepts this fight.

TBH, Crawford nor Spence would take on Ennis for peanuts either. He's a boxer...that specializes in the art of knockout.

The only way for Ennis to get major recognition, fame, and access to multimillions, would be to give up a lot to secure a big name fight. They'll mention his name, and will give him props, but won't step in the ring so easily with Boots. It's potential career suicide.

[tomhawq]

Not sure I believe this guy. He says, we're wanting top five. We're not going back. In the next sentence he contradicts, when six and seven also become acceptable. They wanted to fight Avanesyan. Ok that's fine. But he turned you down? Really? Because your a better proposition than Crawford? And it was Avanesyan that turned Ortiz down, not the other way around. So when you weigh up the discrepancies, it's bending the narrative to suit. So is Thurman wanting 10mil just part of that narrative? To make your guy look so feared and avoided? Sure, nobody is in a hurry to fight him, but when the circumstances are right, plenty will.

intriguing post, as opposed to the usual riding of the hype train.

[Knuckle sandwich]

I've made a few light hearted jokes in posts about keef, but I respect him, he should ask for 10 million, he a big name big draw, and also he can sell a fight, oh I forgot he can also fight, let him force a fight with Spence, it seems he holds a lot of cards

[elfag]

99.99% of americans dont even know Keef Thurman exists


how does he think they can pay him 10 million

[TheIronMike]

All Keith had to do was beat 40 yo Pacman, and he somehow managed to botch that ****

[Knuckle sandwich]

99.99% of americans dont even know Keef Thurman exists


how does he think they can pay him 10 million

A slight and maybe deliberate underestimation. Have Americans heard of boots? he has had plenty of fights so far.