Comments Thread For: Lomachenko-Russell: Golden Boy Wins The Purse Bid

[-PBP-]

Ahh section 13B (B) "If the fight is held in the country of origin, residence or nationality of one of the contender, the resident contestant shall receive 40% and his opponent shall receive 60% off the total purse offered."

haha if that is the case, maybe Top Rank placed a high bid, and let it slip out on purpose knowing GBP would have to shell out 60% if they took it.

Either way GBP found out somehow what Top Rank bid. Maybe Top Rank leaked it on purpose. Who knows..

I don't think HBO would pay $1 million for this fight. ShowTime got suckered.

[deanrw]

I don't think HBO would pay $1 million for this fight. ShowTime got suckered.

Yeah when the bids were 4-5X more than where they should have been, it tells me there were some shenanigans taking place.

[AP♠]

Whoever wins this fight, if it happen, will get a lot of hype...and will milk it for a while.

Absolutely the winner deserves his share of props I think Loma has more at stake then both. Russell has been on a journeyman streak with an unproven track record Loma simply can't lose this fight on the other hand Russel wins he beats a top 2,3 fringe contender in his division and one of the most decorated amateurs.

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I don't think HBO would pay $1 million for this fight. ShowTime got suckered.

HBO or SHO wouldn't be paying for the bid. Goldenboy is and they get the profits for airing it on SHO event probably a undercard.

[Luilun]

What about Lomachenko? He's fought literally two guys, one of whom was a journeyman who beat him decisively.

Lomachenko by UD or KO over Russell after losing to journeyman Salido? Lol lol lol

Journey men don't become World Champions I think you need to stick to your day job of Shining shoes, now go get your Phucken shoe box quote from Billy Bats

[Chaconlittlered]

Journey men don't become World Champions I think you need to stick to your day job of Shining shoes, now go get your Phucken shoe box quote from Billy Bats

Yes journey men can become champions and Orlando Salido is not your regular journey man plus this is the reason why mexico has so many world champions there are elites to journeymen but loma vs russel is a different beast and loma does not have that real professional experiences Russel has some but its enough to beat loma these idiots are destroying this kid

[Ravens Fan]

I thought Oscar cared about the history of boxing? If so why did he get involved with this freak show circus act of a fight? Is it possible that Lomachenko has something on Oscar? Possibly the unedited tapes, that go along with the photos, from Oscar's night in fishnet stockings from a few years back?

[MasterPlan]

This will be part of a 3 fight card. Wonder which other fights take place this night? Devon Alexander-Robert Guerrero Austin Trout-Gabe Rosado maybe. Abner Mares?

[Citizen Koba]

It does not work like that. It's a meeting in a room sat round a table where anyone who wants to bid takes in a sealed letter containing their bid and when you are told to open your letter and reveal your bid then that is final. You can't randomly say '' Hey i want to increase my bid to match or beat my arch rival's winning bid''. LoL. Top Rank came up short, it happens on to the next one for them.

I honestly don't know if they use sealed bids or what, but I struggle with the concept that it's just co-incidence that GBP came in just $2.5K above TR, and with such a random kinda figure. As I say I don't know the procedure but just the amounts alone suggest either competitive bidding or that GBP had foreknowledge of what TR were gonna offer.

[Pigeons]

I honestly don't know if they use sealed bids or what, but I struggle with the concept that it's just co-incidence that GBP came in just $2.5K above TR, and with such a random kinda figure. As I say I don't know the procedure but just the amounts alone suggest either competitive bidding or that GBP had foreknowledge of what TR were gonna offer.

I don't believe the bids are sealed, but who knows. The purse bid process is very mysterious.

http://www.boxingscene.com/imp-wins-purse-bid-mendez-barthelemy-rematch--76735

Mike Tyson outbid Warriors boxing for Mendez-Barthelemy II 261K to 251K. I read that a couple days ago and squinted my eyes... and now we have this bid with Loma and Russell.

If the bids are sealed, I wouldn't want to be the guy placed in charge of strategically formulating the bid..lol