Purses for Ward vs. Dawson card, I thought Dawson would get more

[Hougigo]

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im thinking this also the way devon alexander got $1.3 million for his 10 round fight against lucas matthysse

wait what?!?

[TR vs. GB]

wait what?!?

yep this was when greenburg was running hbo and caught a lot of heat for this alexander got paid $1.3 million for his Matthysse fight

[_original_]

Wow I thought Dawson was getting at least $900k - $1 Million...Damn you have to come down in weight, then go fight the guy in his back yard and then your only getting $600K (not that $600K isn't a lot of money)...To me that shows that Dawson is very confident that he can beat Ward and he knows more money will be coming to him if he pulls it off because he certainly did not take this fight "FOR THE MONEY" that is for sure

That is a shame if this purse is true especially when HBO gave Bradley and Alexander well over $1 Million each for that **** Fight but I am thinking that it is some type of guarantee for Dawson, either maybe another HBO Date with a Guaranteed Purse!

Which makes me even more confident in my Dawson pick, this dude is giving every pre-fight advantage to Ward (purse, venue, weight, ect.). He MUST know something and be extremely confident to beat Ward to make this move.

[jtcs1981]

That is a normal purse for an HBO fight. Dawson is challenging Ward for his title, he is getting the challenger percentage. He knows that if he dont make the sacrifice HBO is not going to pay him much money to fight lesser competition in their network.

[kiaba360]

Which makes me even more confident in my Dawson pick, this dude is giving every pre-fight advantage to Ward (purse, venue, weight, ect.). He MUST know something and be extremely confident to beat Ward to make this move.

He knows what we know. Giving up every advantage (outside of the ring) means that there's no heat on him if he loses. He's in a win-win situation. This is the best opponent available, so he took a calculated risk.


offering 3:1 odds on Dawson, get at me

[Medved]

Do people think money grows on trees? These are 2 fighters with virtually no fans outside the hardcore boxing community. One hides at home and has one of the ugliest styles we have seen in last 10 years, the other is so inconsistent that we dont know who'll show up..

So tell me, how do they deserve more money? The gate will make like 50k if they lucky.... You think people gonna give them 10m when they bring in no money at all? Im surprised HBO didnt make this a PPV, since they wont get any money back from this event...

Draw 500 people, get paid millions? Oh Al-Haymon hi there......

just like Berto and other Haymon fighters, get millions while having no fans/revenue generation

[_original_]

Do people think money grows on trees? These are 2 fighters with virtually no fans outside the hardcore boxing community. One hides at home and has one of the ugliest styles we have seen in last 10 years, the other is so inconsistent that we dont know who'll show up..

So tell me, how do they deserve more money? The gate will make like 50k if they lucky.... You think people gonna give them 10m when they bring in no money at all? Im surprised HBO didnt make this a PPV, since they wont get any money back from this event...

Draw 500 people, get paid millions? Oh Al-Haymon hi there......

just like Berto and other Haymon fighters, get millions while having no fans/revenue generation

You're completely missing the point here bud. Nobody is saying these guys deserve 5 million dollar purses, we're just discussing the difference in Chad and Andre's purses. It'd odd that Ward is getting such a larger purse than Dawson, when like you said both fighters don't bring in a lot of money/fans/revenue and a 50-50 split would have been fair.

[_original_]

He knows what we know. Giving up every advantage (outside of the ring) means that there's no heat on him if he loses. He's in a win-win situation. This is the best opponent available, so he took a calculated risk.


offering 3:1 odds on Dawson, get at me

I don't think that's all it is bro, Chad had shown interest in the past about coming down to 168 when the Super 8 Tourney was hot. I think he's very confident about beating Ward.

[ElBossHogg™]

This isn't true. I refuse to believe a fight between two Ring Magazine champions on HBO live and Dawson doesn't even get 1 million dollars. Molina is fighting for a world title and is only getting 85k? Jesse Vargas got 150k and he was the under-under-under card. **** outta here.

but he was on the under-under-under card of a very revunue generating event so hence their more money to throw around and plus he was in good with mayweather.

this sounds about right.

[KingTito]

Well that doesn't seem right.