Comments Thread For: Kovalev's Next Fight Could Come To Russia, Off HBO

[LouIE G]

Stevenson did 1.3M vs. Bellew. Kovalev-Sillakh was the undercard.

Are you being a parrot???i just stated that

[US Dirk Killer]

Dang headbutts

[Snake4380]

Promoters are greedier than ever. These promoters don't want to split money with other promoters to make a bigger fight and risk a loss to their golden gooses. Promoters would rather take a percentage of their fighters and if one loses the promoter still has both fighters under contract.

Example:

Bob Arum gets 100% of the promoter's fee for Pacquiao vs. Bradley say it does 1 million ppv buys. Arum = 100% of 1m ppvs.

Bob Arum would get 50% of the promoter's fee for Pacquiao v. Mayweather...let's say 3 million ppv buys. Arum = 50% of 3 mill ppvs = full percent of 1.5 m ppvs.

We have to also remember that Pacquiao would only get 40% against Mayweather not 50%. Arum doesn't think it's worth it to risk Pacquiao when can make a little less money without having to risk a Pac loss.