Sergey Kovalev to take home just a quarter of his purse from Bernard Hopkins victory

[NormC]

There's an article in mail online that he only took home $125k?! That's a pittance for a fight of that magnitude. Does anyone know how much was Bhop's share?

Fat Dan and Boxing scene reported him making over $1million dollars for this fight, not $500k.

http://www.boxingscene.com/kovalev-went-from-5k-purse-1million-plus-2-years--83935

[big_james10]

I didn't realize that his purse was so little for the Hopkins fight. I thought he was making between $1 million and 1.5 million for that bout. I have always heard that Main Events always takes 25 percent of the fighter's purse, so maybe the actual amount that he was guaranteed was $1 million.

[The Problem Child]

Seriously, **** the system. ****ing thieves. Thankfully, I don't have to pay speeding tickets thanks to a buddy of mine, and I cheat on my taxes hard.

[lefthook2daliva]

As a fan of Kovalev, the money he makes that I'll never even get close enough to smell is important to me, and 50% for taxes Thats going towards feeding criminals seems CRAZY to me

Vote for smaller govt next time you get a chance.

[King_]

Vote for smaller govt next time you get a chance.

How do I do that?

[King_]

most of the Tax money is used to line the politicians pockets.

Politicians in government make up crappy jobs that they dont need so their friends get paid, and than the branch they create that gets voted for gets corrupted because friends who hold positions hire their friends and so forth.

Its 100 times worse in third world countries, where the corruption is blatant like Mexico, Philippines and Africa where billions of donations a year go to these poor countries only for the poor to still be poor and nothing done to solve the hunger issues, its because those millions of donations we give and people give pass through hands of politicians they take their cut of it and nothing is left for the poor.

Screw those crooks.

[lefthook2daliva]

How do I do that?

That one you're going to have to figure out for yourself.

[Wolfie*]

Jesus Christ, no wonder why he wants Chavez Jr. Someone pay that man.

[Luiz]

would be 2.76mil for Pascal and 3.24mil for Kovalev.***10;Also Kovalev has a rematch clause

— Simbros, Simon (@ThatSimbros) December 5, 2014

[-Kev-]

Better to take home 300k than not fight and take home nothing, or fight someone else for even less money (which is usually where the complaints emanate from).

Fighter's turn down $1million dollar pay days against other top fighters because they feel they can make more fighting that guy another time. So they settle for less against a lesser opponent. I think pro fighters just want the money to equal the danger. Established fighters that is. Up and coming fighters who have a lot to prove would have that "I would fight anybody" attitude, and that's who fans love. Until that fighter starts talking that business talk, which they all eventually do. Every last one of them.