Comments Thread For: Gervonta Davis vs. Lamont Roach is 'a hard pill to swallow'

[maguirre]

Why in the world the discrepancy in these reports is so huge? Who is telling the truth and who is making **** up?

You could easily tell who is making sh/t up by clicking the link of the writer. The racial component is evident. He says Tank is estimated to earn $25 million, while Martin $3.25 mil. Even Spence and Crawford didn't make that kind of money combined, and there's no doubt their fight was 10x bigger. It's a very fkd up sport where bogus writers can get away with lies. There were no such figures even when HBO, Fox and Showtime were still around for such small fights. It's like they're replaced by bigger platforms and investors and interest in boxing suddenly began to surge again.

[Elheath]

You could easily tell who is making sh/t up by clicking the link of the writer. The racial component is evident. He says Tank is estimated to earn $25 million, while Martin $3.25 mil. Even Spence and Crawford didn't make that kind of money combined, and there's no doubt their fight was 10x bigger. It's a very fkd up sport where bogus writers can get away with lies. There were no such figures even when HBO, Fox and Showtime were still around for such small fights. It's like they're replaced by bigger platforms and investors and interest in boxing suddenly began to surge again.

Wasn't Crawford said to have made 10 mil off Madrimov including Saudi cash boost and even that was a bit skeptical? I see no way the fan proclaimed Farce of boxing could've made 2.5 times that.

[maguirre]

Wasn't Crawford said to have made 10 mil off Madrimov including Saudi cash boost and even that was a bit skeptical? I see no way the fan proclaimed Farce of boxing could've made 2.5 times that.

Spence's guarantee in the Crawford fight was reported to be $1.5 mil. Crawford's may be just a tad less. I have no idea what the PPV outcome was, but that's obviously where their "extra" money would have come from... And when the news of Showtime leaving boxing broke out, T Bud was demanding more transparency on twitter. I could only guess he's not satisfied with what he got from the fight.

[SteveM]

I am not a ****** rich millionaire but boxing PPV have been baked into my budget since the 90s. I remember my uncle bought a house in the 80s in Ft Washington, MD right outside of DC (very rich knee-grow neighborhood) and one of the first things purchased was one of those big ass C-band satellite dishes. He would host all the big fights that were only on CCTV that you had to go to the theater back then to watch. I was young and used to love it when my pops took me over there for the fight party to watch our boy - Palmer Park, Mds own - Sugar Ray Leonard fight. As soon as I was old enough to move out of pops house when I was 18 I got my first apartment and you better believe I have been the fight party guy ever since. So paying for an 80 dollar PPV fight 4 or 5 times a year is part of my budget. That's not even 500 dollars so that's nothing for a very high middle class guy like me to handle. #MIDDLECLASSMILLIONAIRES

You've made all that money? That's great - good for you. You'll be able to afford the chip implant surgery for your shoulders.

[SteveM]

Dude, there's no shame in saying I didn't pay for Fury-Usyk or any other worthy card.
My priorities dictate that my cash puts food on the table for my family. All the rest is gravy.
Like I said in a previous post, there's old-school ways of knowing what's happening in real time with a YouTube live comment show or following round by round updates.
Clunky - yeah, but kind of fun, too. And then the bouts are usually shown a day or two later on DAZN and similar anyway.

I was in Switzerland a couple or weeks ago for the Dubois Josha fight. The only way to follow 'live' was on round by round updates/comments - that was fun ! Plenty of "whoas" and "oh! Fook!" in the comments

[morph_resurrected]

Absolutely.
I can't imagine there's anyone posting on these pages (or a true boxing fan anywhere, for that matter) who doesn't feel the same way.

[SPECIAL REQUEST: I wish you would change your avatar. The cat is cool but that guy with the glasses freaks me out. Just saying.]

Bro that’s Bubbles I can’t like, just get rid of him.

[DClefthook]

You've made all that money? That's great - good for you. You'll be able to afford the chip implant surgery for your shoulders.

So to your logic I'm a bad guy because I followed the rules set by the men that came before me and I succeeded and you frown on that? Mannits no wonder why you Europeans have lost control of your continent. Your men are weak. FH-UCK!!!

[Left Hook Louie]

Bro that’s Bubbles I can’t like, just get rid of him.

How about this - pick one day of the year as "Bubbles Day" and use it on that day.
Every other day of the year is any image other than this one.
That way you're not getting rid of him at all, just reserving him for a very special day

[maguirre]

This guy was supposed to fight Loma 5 years ago. What happened? Now he's trying to sell fights fighting any bump. What a nerve! Floyd style...

If Wahid made $25 million in the Martin fight, according to a bogus writer, such writer would report he made $100 mil in the Loma fight.

[maguirre]

Which is why you don't take any figure coming out in this sport nowadays, PPV numbers, purses, estimated earnings, etc. seriously. They are massively exaggerated. If you've been following boxing at least starting from when PBC started, you know exactly the realistic figures are. Danny Garcia's purse, for example, in the Rod Salka fight was $700K, which was seen as already huge at that time. Leo Santa Cruz made $750K vs a former sparring partner. Again it's seen as huge. And these figures were not hard to find at that time. $1 million is a huge deal even to this day. How in the world it went from $1 million to $10 to $25 million? What changed? Certainly not the size of the fights, not the PPV numbers, not the crowd size, not the investors, etc. What changed is bogus writers, like you said, youtube channels that lie about anything and get away with it.

May/Pac rivalry roused the interest of fans in purses, splits, guarantees, ppv numbers, anything that involves money. The back and forth among fans was legendary. That's where it all started and it infected every other big fight that followed. Thus many fans started checking out figures which were readily available. Whether they were accurate or not, they're certainly far from being massively exaggerated.

$1 million purse is definitely huge even to this day. Thurman made $1.5 mil and Porter, $1 mil in their fight on CBS. No ppv upsides, except probably uncle Al's "side money". Bottom line is those were the prevailing values of fighters in big fights. Nowadays bogus writers are reporting almost 20x more even on small fights.