So it's official, RJJ fought Hopkins for FREE

[Pretty Boy Greg]

http://espn.go.com/sports/boxing/not...k-make-history

jones please retire... you are embarassing yourself dude

[Kenny Blankenship]

140,000 PPV buys X $50 each is 7,000,000. Plus at gate.

I don't know how that **** is all divided up but that's the mathematics of what it generated.

50% of the PPV sales go directly to the carrier (i.e. the cable or satellite provider).

That cuts 7,000,000 to 3,500,000 right off the top. Then you have to factor in production costs which is usually a few hundred thousand, minimum.

That right there puts the profit from PPV alone well below the 3,500,000 mark.

Add the fact that paid attendance was around 4,000 and you have the math completed: zero dollars for Roy as the fight didn't exceed 3.5 million in profit.

[Carpe Diem]

Floyd must be laughing his ass off now at Bernard Hopkins..

[ИATAS]

Floyd must be laughing his ass off now at Bernard Hopkins..

the hell does floyd have to do with hopkins and roy jones? single minded aren't you?

[Kobe B Bryant]

what else can you say but RJJ ****ed up. he should fought hopkins for 50/50 when hopkins beat tito

nah...... roy jones deserved the bigger share.

even if it was just 51/49.

hopkins screwed that up.

he didn't deserve 50/50.

he didn't get 50/50 against tito. he didn't get 50/50 against delahoya.

roy might not deserved the 70-75 that tito and delahoya got but he was the bigger name , he was the winner of the 1st fight , he was the higher ranked fighter.

he deserved the 60-40 he was asking for.

[Kobe B Bryant]

Floyd must be laughing his ass off now at Bernard Hopkins..

he shouldn't.

that could be him 10 years from now.

[freeloada]

a damn shame for Roy.. i would say fight 1 more fight so you dont leave on a loss but im afraid if he might get knocked out again.. he definately has a glass jaw now... sucks.. Im a big Roy fan.. wish he didnt put himself through all this bull****..

[Derranged_]

Good, this sends a message to fighters like Jones Jr. and Hopkins that the boxing public doesn't want to see these kinds of fights....