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A Floyd v Pac charity event is actually very doable.
Heres why.
In reality each fighter is only giving up what they would make fighting someone else if they don't do this fight.
So assuming this fight happens in Sep. Then Floyd will most likely fight Maidana and Pac will fight Prov or Bradley or someone.
Now Floyd won't make more than his $30mil guarantee for that fight, since it will flop especially after fighting Khan and refusing a charity Pac fight.
Pac will make $20-25mil, maybe less for whoever he fights.
Now after tax thats about $20mil for Floyd and say $15mil for Pac. Thats all they are giving up if they never fight each other.
Now a charity event like this would be huge! People get behind these things. People will buy it just to be seen to be helping, sponsors pay more, tickets sell for more etc etc, because people love to help people in need.
The fighters share could be up to$150mil, this all goes to charity in their names and becomes a tax deduction of $75mil each or however its split, meaning they can save a huge chunk of tax on their next couple of fights, in fact they would probably save more than purse they would have made taking other fights.
So essentially, this can be done without either guy actually missing out on any money. compared to what they would make just fighting other guys, while raising a tonne of cash for charity and giving both guys some great goodwill.
Heres why.
In reality each fighter is only giving up what they would make fighting someone else if they don't do this fight.
So assuming this fight happens in Sep. Then Floyd will most likely fight Maidana and Pac will fight Prov or Bradley or someone.
Now Floyd won't make more than his $30mil guarantee for that fight, since it will flop especially after fighting Khan and refusing a charity Pac fight.
Pac will make $20-25mil, maybe less for whoever he fights.
Now after tax thats about $20mil for Floyd and say $15mil for Pac. Thats all they are giving up if they never fight each other.
Now a charity event like this would be huge! People get behind these things. People will buy it just to be seen to be helping, sponsors pay more, tickets sell for more etc etc, because people love to help people in need.
The fighters share could be up to$150mil, this all goes to charity in their names and becomes a tax deduction of $75mil each or however its split, meaning they can save a huge chunk of tax on their next couple of fights, in fact they would probably save more than purse they would have made taking other fights.
So essentially, this can be done without either guy actually missing out on any money. compared to what they would make just fighting other guys, while raising a tonne of cash for charity and giving both guys some great goodwill.
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