Comments Thread For: Valuev Rejects Klitschko's $1 Million, Wants More Money

[klitschkobrofan]

Don't see anything greedy about Vitali. He is just negotiating. He is the one willing to put his title on the line against Valuev who may be marketable still but Vitali is taking all the risk.

As far as the person who said Vitali backed out of negotiations before. That's bull. That makes a lot of sense logically(sarcasm). Vitali backed out of negotiations recently when Valuev had a belt and when he said he would fight him, but now that Valuev has no belt he is more than willing to fight him? Makes no sense because it's not true. The truth is Don King didn't want to lose his fighter but now that he has no belt there's nothing to lose and why not see how much money he can get it's part of the negotiation process. I personally don't think Valuev should be too greedy though. He's not the champ. Vitali is taking the risk, and how much money could Valuev get fighting anyone else? Most likely nowhere near a mil...

I heard someone say Vitali should fight a worthy opponent. This is a voluntary defense. He's been fighting once every three months. Most champions in the past have fought once a year. So if he wants to fight 3 voluntary matches -- I dont care if they truly are not the best in the division-- it's better in my opinion than fighitng once a year only. Plus Valuev isnt that bad- he was champion after all up until recently and many have argued that he won the last fight against Haye and would be a good match to watch imo(just for the size factor alone). I noticed names like Povetkin were tossed around.. Well Povetkin is up to fight Wladimir next after Wlad fights Chambers. I'm sure that could be a factor in Vitali not fighting him..

[neils7147933]

Depends what Vitali would likely take away given the venue.

1m may be okish, but the Klit's are a bit chumpish in negotiations sometimes. Oh I'm the champ, suck my balls, mah mah mah...

I'm normally anti-greedy athletes, but especially if this fight goes down in Germany, Valuev is worth a lot more than $1 million, easily twice that for the number of tickets this thing will sell..........

[Weebler I]

tbf Valuev's food bill needs paying, a mill isn't gonna cut it

[Kris Silver]

Depends what Vitali would likely take away given the venue.

1m may be okish, but the Klit's are a bit chumpish in negotiations sometimes. Oh I'm the champ, suck my balls, mah mah mah...

[top8gun]

he needs to fight manny to get that amount of money!!!

[BrooklynBomber]

Well there must be a reason why he would turn down a million then, Maybe he has the Haye rematch in mind.

He would not get any more than 400-500k and that is with everyone's hand in his purse for the rematch.

Valuev is just delusional about his ratings, you guys got to understand that barely any russian channels were buying him.

[Ray*]

You guys are naive to think that Valuev was getting anything sizeably more than that when he was a champ. I am not even going to talk about his contendership years when he was fighting for 100k max.

Well there must be a reason why he would turn down a million then, Maybe he has the Haye rematch in mind.

[Ray*]

To make Haye look ordinary. As well as for the renegotiations with him. I'm not that sure.

But Haye already looked ordinary in the Valuev fight, He wasnt impressive apart from the last minute when he wobbled Valuev, I just thought Vitali should have fought and KO valuev last year instead of pulling out of the fight.

[BrooklynBomber]

You guys are naive to think that Valuev was getting anything sizeably more than that when he was a champ. I am not even going to talk about his contendership years when he was fighting for 100k max.

[jkaisen41]

Lmao @ you taking my sarcastic mayweatherlike comment about Vitali and you have the nerve to red K me for it. Remove Vitalis balls from youre mouth please.

Tunney means business when it comes to his fighters EJ *öloooooooooooooooooooooool*