Pavlik Threatening to pull out of Saturdays fight due to dispute with Top Rank

[BattlingNelson]

Wait Kessler turn down 3.5M to fight Bute?

Was askin myself the same thing.

I cannot confirm the offer, but 3½M is too little. He'll get nearly the same amount for a Stieglitz fight in Denmark. A Bute-Kessler fight would probably gross close to 10M in revenue.

[Elotero]

Pavlik's biggest enemy seems to be himself. Did you see the thread about how some fighters make 400 bucks in a night? And he is *****ing about 1.1 million? Sounds like Jeff Lacy around the time of the Taylor fight.

[paulf]

Kessler's stock is much, much more valuable than ****in' Kelly Pavliks. The only thing that white trash bum has done the past 3-4 years is get drunk, duck Williams, and lose to Bhop and Martinez.

He looked like **** in his comeback.

[Spray_resistant]

So will there be no fight at all? I mean **** Pavlik he was always trash but maybe they can find someone to replace him just so there can be a fight.

[Medved]

Hmmmm....

1.1M is peanuts. Sounds like a very lowball offer. Bute gets 2M from Showtime alone. The gate would probably be about 2M as well. Overseas rights perhaps another million.

Sounds like Pavlik did the right thing.

Peanuts? Very few fighters make above 1m. Pavlik is worth 250-500k MAXIMUM, he hasnt done crap.

And Kessler rejected 3.5m because he makes alot more fighting infront of his home crowd, dude can bring atleast 20-30k in his home country.

Kelly can bring 2000 Youngstown fans only. He hasnt done anything in 3 years. Dude should be happy to accept 1.2m, who does he think he is?

Lol @ Lowball offer, either you fight or you dont, Bute is the only draw in a Bute-Pavlik fight, yet you want them to make the same?

Bute can do 20-30k in Montreal OR Romania.

and just because a gate grosses 5m doesnt mean fighters split it 50/50.

Theres rent,promoters,staff,expenses,etc,etc ,etc.

1.2m for Pavlik is OVERPAYING. He doesnt bring anything to the table, no belt, very few fans will come to see him and his stock isnt what it used to be.

He is a total idiot for rejecting this, not only will he not get paid for this fight (prolly like 100k) but he missing a 1.2m payday.

So lets do some math 100k + 1.2m = 1.3m in your bank account

Sitting home this friday = 0m + not fighting Bute = 0m hmmmm
let me do this straight 0 + 0 = 0

So 0 > 1.3m?

Whitetrash Math!

[The Big Dunn]

ESPN is saying fight has officially been cancelled.

[BattlingNelson]

I wonder why Pavlik cancels both the Cunningham and the Bute fight. Why not go ahead and fight Cunningham and continue negotiations?

I wonder if there is something else behind this move.

[vcvc]

showtime just announced there will be no card on saturday..........

[AKATheMack]

Kessler's stock is much, much more valuable than ****in' Kelly Pavliks. The only thing that white trash bum has done the past 3-4 years is get drunk, duck Williams, and lose to Bhop and Pavlik.

He looked like **** in his comeback.

Whereas Kessler has beat Froch and lost to Ward in the past 4 years? How does that equate to a much, much higher stock?

[paulf]

Peanuts? Very few fighters make above 1m. Pavlik is worth 250-500k MAXIMUM, he hasnt done crap.

And Kessler rejected 3.5m because he makes alot more fighting infront of his home crowd, dude can bring atleast 20-30k in his home country.

Kelly can bring 2000 Youngstown fans only. He hasnt done anything in 3 years. Dude should be happy to accept 1.2m, who does he think he is?

Lol @ Lowball offer, either you fight or you dont, Bute is the only draw in a Bute-Pavlik fight, yet you want them to make the same?

Bute can do 20-30k in Montreal OR Romania.

and just because a gate grosses 5m doesnt mean fighters split it 50/50.

Theres rent,promoters,staff,expenses,etc,etc ,etc.

1.2m for Pavlik is OVERPAYING. He doesnt bring anything to the table, no belt, very few fans will come to see him and his stock isnt what it used to be.

He is a total idiot for rejecting this, not only will he not get paid for this fight (prolly like 100k) but he missing a 1.2m payday.

So lets do some math 100k + 1.2m = 1.3m in your bank account

Sitting home this friday = 0m + not fighting Bute = 0m hmmmm
let me do this straight 0 + 0 = 0

So 0 > 1.3m?

Whitetrash Math!

/thread...........

Whereas Kessler has beat Froch and lost to Ward in the past 4 years? How does that equate to a much, much higher stock?

Read the above quote. Pavlik draws a handful (a few thousand) of people in Atlantic City and his hometown. Kessler fills stadiums in Europe.

Pavlik doesnt draw 1/10th of the fans Kessler can, yet he's angry he's being offered of 1/3rd of what Kessler was? What?

Dude is seriously ******ed.