Broner is smart. It wasn't about the money, duplicate topic banned

[ИATAS]

You read the article wrong. Roc nation contract was for two fights a year. Broner wanted to be more active than that.

Beat me to it. OP, Broner WANTS to fight more frequently and not limit himself to only 2 fights a year

Exactly.

There is more risk NOT taking this offer. A long-term, $40 million guaranteed contract is very very rare in boxing. That is a lifetime of security. You're set for life. If he loses his next couple fights? So what, he's still making $40 million. However without any deal like that, if he loses a couple times his stock plummets big time. He's not going to make that kind of money.

Now of course, Broner is very marketable with his personality, people love him or love to hate him, so he potentially could make more than $40 million if he gets on a roll, wins some quality fights and gets himself into a few big time PPV's. This scenario though is much more unlikely, imo. Time will tell but perhaps 5 years from now he'll be kicking himself. He thinks still thinking he's about billions which is obviously hugely unrealistic. He's just not that great of a fighter.

[KillerJones]

Sorry, unless he is planning on fighting some really really tough opponents, and build a crazy legacy, what Broner did is straight out dumb, especially since he said the main reason he did not take it is, because Jay Z didn't come to him personally. Makes me wonder, if Broner is lying about the 40 mill figure, since he claims he got it in an email.

But, his opponents since Maidana aren't exciting enough to really justify staying with GB on an opponent basis, he can get the same quality with Rocnations. And anyway, hes not doing this for the fans, but it might be better for us.

Like someone else said, a guaranteed 40 million check for 5 years is something that never happens in boxing. You could get suffer an injury in the next fight, and your career is gone.

[Weebler I]

He thinks still thinking he's about billions which is obviously hugely unrealistic. He's just not that great of a fighter.

Yep, like I said earlier, he's a dumb mfer and so is the OP for his off-base interpretation.

[JasonBoxing]

Yep, like I said earlier, he's a dumb mfer and so is the OP for his off-base interpretation.

so you want Broner to fight GGG?

[JasonBoxing]

Exactly.

There is more risk NOT taking this offer. A long-term, $40 million guaranteed contract is very very rare in boxing. That is a lifetime of security. You're set for life. If he loses his next couple fights? So what, he's still making $40 million. However without any deal like that, if he loses a couple times his stock plummets big time. He's not going to make that kind of money.

Now of course, Broner is very marketable with his personality, people love him or love to hate him, so he potentially could make more than $40 million if he gets on a roll, wins some quality fights and gets himself into a few big time PPV's. This scenario though is much more unlikely, imo. Time will tell but perhaps 5 years from now he'll be kicking himself. He thinks still thinking he's about billions which is obviously hugely unrealistic. He's just not that great of a fighter.

Broner can make 40 million dollars in 2 fights easy.

Broner vs Pac= 15 Million for Broner
Broner vs Floyd=15 Million for Broner

That's 40 million right there. Why would he need Jay z?

[Black Barty]

Broner knows that 40 Million is probably going to be as much as he would ever make(probably more). He knows this. He already said that's not why he rejected the offer. He rejected it because he would have been Jay Z's slave for 5 years. Fighting 4x times a year. That's 20 brutal health ending fights. Jay Z would probably force Broner to go up against a literal gauntlet of hard punchers and than force him to move up to 154 and maybe even 160 against GGG. It's not even cowardly to refuse at being a slave.

Broner can make 40 million and die at age 30
or
25-35 million and live a happy life all the way until he's like 90.

Common sense.

Broner will never make that much, especially by fighting handpicked opponents twice a year.

[JasonBoxing]

Broner will never make that much, especially by fighting handpicked opponents twice a year.

He'll make double that if he fights Pacquaio.

[Black Barty]

He'll make double that if he fights Pacquaio.

And what makes you think he will ever get that fight? Right now it's more of a pipe dream than anything.

[_original_]

Broner can make 40 million dollars in 2 fights easy.

Broner vs Pac= 15 Million for Broner
Broner vs Floyd=15 Million for Broner

That's 40 million right there. Why would he need Jay z?

lol Broner is never going to do anything to deserve those fights and they're never going to happen. Even if he somehow did, he'd probably get 2-3 million for each fight at the most.

[Aztekkas]

Broner can make 40 million dollars in 2 fights easy.

Broner vs Pac= 15 Million for Broner
Broner vs Floyd=15 Million for Broner

That's 40 million right there. Why would he need Jay z?

No it's not, you're missing 10 million