Comments Thread For: Pirog Realizes Golovkin Bout Could Cost The WBO Belt

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When a boxer has a belt they pay 4 or 5% of their purse to get the org to "sanction" the fight as being for their title. I'v always assumed that if a boxer holds more than one title then the two orgs get a smaller %. With Volodymyr for example having the IBF, WBO, WBA Super, IBO i don't imagine he's paying 16% of his purse, 4% to each org. Does that sound correct?

That makes sense to me. And also, if you think about it, they only make money when that ONE guy fights, instead of having two guys out there who could be fighting and they would get the entire 4%. So if guy A is sitting idle looking for an opponent, the other guy can be line dup and getting ready for his fight. If one guy has both belts and he is sitting idle, no one makes any money.

[BattleAxePurist]

Bigger picture WBO doesn't lead him down the most lucrative avenue bcse a fight with Golovkin on HBO is going to put him in line for Geale/Sturm-Martinez/Chavez winner