Comments Thread For: Usyk Promoter Responds to Fury's Demands: This Is Sports; Go to Hollywood If You Want That Kind of Money

[Scooby817]

Doesn't Usyk have four belts? IBO, WBA, WBO and IBF?

Anyway...Krassyuk isn't wrong here. Same issue with Crawford.

I know, but let's not take the IBO seriously. We have enough with the other 4 clown alphabet soup orgs.

[Griever0730]

My take is that it should be a 50/50 split. Usyk is a three-belt champion and Fury a one belt champion, so Usyk has more to risk. Both fighters will make many millions each from a 50/50 split, so why should Fury get greedy. It's my belief that Fury sees this fight as a very possible loss and that is his real reason for quibbling over the purse split.

I agree to most of this. But it's business and everybody is gonna try use every bit of leverage they can to get as big of a slice of the pie as they can. It can be a possible L for both guys IMO, but Usyk definitely has more to lose bc, as great as he is, he is not the draw that Fury is. He needs Fury and the belts more than Fury needs him to make the big bread. The hardball will continue until somebody gives in.

[Griever0730]

Anyone fighting Joshua will do the better numbers that’s not debatable.

Frank Warren used the same exact logic when Fury fought Wilder while Whyte fought Povetkin included those fights and crunched the numbers up leaving Whyte with about 12% of the split if I remember correctly ? Lol

But Usyk has multiple belts now and has a legit following fan base and grew enormously after the Joshua fights ,we don’t know what he dies because he’s not fought as the unified champion outside Joshua, we do know Fury needs U.K dust ups to attract a sell out of stadiums which means he cannot box anywhere and be a big draw . There is only one man stopping this fight that’s Fury .

I agree with some of this. Just as you stated in regards to Fury needing UK dust-ups to sellout, most of Usyk's fights have been against UK guys as well. All his biggest fights have been in enemy territory whether in the UK or in the WBSS so it's hard to gauge his appeal as an attraction if he has to go to everyone's backyard, which kind of speaks to what type of attraction he is if he's arguably the best fighter at HW and still has go to his opponent's backyard on a consistent basis. Regardless, business will always prevail over the actual sport and when there's some many hands in the cookie jar, there's gonna be alot of back and forth. Hopefully they get this handled and sing kumbaya together after so history can be made.

[elfag]

If Usyk turns down 40/60 split its a duck.


Usky took only 19.8% of the purse in the first Joshua fight.


He also supposedly made $75 million in the rematch. he doesnt need the money, if he wants to unify with Fury, he is going to have to take a fair purse split. Just having the belts doesnt mean he drives tickets like Fury does. Fury has all the fans, a 40/60 split pays him DOUBLE what he got against AJ the first time. He only got 50-50 with the rematch with AJ because AJ wanted his belts back. He doesnt have that leverage against Fury, he never took Fury's belt. If he beats Fury by some miracle then he would have leverage in a rematch.

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Fury should be able to fight in the Middle East then if he's more relevant than AJ. AJ has done it twice now for boat loads of money. Fury should get more considering? No? Haha.

Learn how to multi quote you dumbazz, I can't be bothered replying to 5 separate posts.

It doesn't matter what you think about Fury, he'll go down as a greater fighter than your hero Joshua even if he doesn't fight Usyk.

You'd just better pray to god that Joshua handles that bum Franklin, with AJs biscuit chin you never know what could happen.

[JakeTheBoxer]

Can you not read? He has mandatories. Dubois and Hrgovic are the fights he can take if no Fury fight.

You obviously can`t think. Usyk is not obligated to keep his belts and fight mandatories. He can fight whoever he wants with 1 or no belt on the line. He is a popular fighter in Uk.

And Wilder -Ruiz is far from being finalized.

[kafkod]

If Usyk turns down 40/60 split its a duck.


Usky took only 19.8% of the purse in the first Joshua fight.


He also supposedly made $75 million in the rematch. he doesnt need the money, if he wants to unify with Fury, he is going to have to take a fair purse split. Just having the belts doesnt mean he drives tickets like Fury does. Fury has all the fans, a 40/60 split pays him DOUBLE what he got against AJ the first time. He only got 50-50 with the rematch with AJ because AJ wanted his belts back. He doesnt have that leverage against Fury, he never took Fury's belt. If he beats Fury by some miracle then he would have leverage in a rematch.

Usyk won the first AJ fight and is now the HW unified champion, so how is that percentage at all relevant?

According to what Frank said about the Fury/Whyte split, purses should be based on how much each fighter got for his previous fight. Going by that, Usyk should be getting around 70% of the money against Fury!

Fury himself instructed Warren to offer Usyk a 50/50 split before the negotiations began. Usyk accepted that offer, so it's time for everybody to cut the bull**** and get this fight on.

[Combat Talk Radio]

I know, but let's not take the IBO seriously. We have enough with the other 4 clown alphabet soup orgs.

IBO is the only org that hasn't made sketchy decisions in the past 15 years. Like silently allowing Big Charlo to sit on the belt and not defend it against anyone under 25.

[Boxing 112]

You obviously can`t think. Usyk is not obligated to keep his belts and fight mandatories. He can fight whoever he wants with 1 or no belt on the line. He is a popular fighter in Uk.

And Wilder -Ruiz is far from being finalized.

If he drops belt then there is even more reason for Wilder to not fight him. For what. When he can just continue wbc route or fight for a belt usyk vacated against a easier opponent

[OldTerry]

You obviously can`t think. Usyk is not obligated to keep his belts and fight mandatories. He can fight whoever he wants with 1 or no belt on the line. He is a popular fighter in Uk.

And Wilder -Ruiz is far from being finalized.

If Willder doesn't fight Ruiz it probably means a fourth Wilder Fury fight, but it also opens up the possibly of Wilder verses Usyk.