Comments Thread For: Warriors Boxing Wins Purse Bid For DeGale-Dirrell

[JakeNDaBox]

The purse bid for the Super Middleweight Championship contest between James DeGale and Andre Dirrell took place today, March 10, 2015, at the IBF office in Springfield, NJ. The bidders were Warriors Boxing Promotions and Mathchroom Sport. The winning bid came from Warriors Boxing Promotions at $3,100,000.00. Matchroom Sport bid $2,105,000.00. The purse will be split 50/50. Warriors Boxing Promotion has until March 25, 2015 to submit executed contracts for this bout to the IBF and has 90 days to stage the contest.
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[baddog]

Thanks uncle al,

[Canvas]

Expect Dirrell to do lots of 'slipping' and 'falling' and otherwise lose his footing every time Degale applies any pressure.

[PK3434]

I could see this coming from a mile away. Hearn should've known to make a very aggressive bid.

Kind of sucks considering this fight would be a nice draw in europe as opposed to the states where Dirrell can't even draw a crowd of 100...no exaggeration.

[Dirk Diggler UK]

Gutted. I wanted to go to this fight.

[Eastcoast]

I think DeGale has what it takes to stop Andre regardless of location. Dirrell's career has been complete **** since Abraham and he didn't take that shot from a beaten down Edwards very well in round 12.

[Greed.]

Haymon is doing big things for Dirrell. Saved him from his 50 cent nightmare and has got him a title shot in the US by overpaying for the fight. Hearn must be gutted, he wanted to make it a PPV show with Selby-Gradovich and Joshua-Johnson.

[PittyPat]

A very intriguing and competitive southpaw slickster match-up. Most likely to be a stinker, but I'm hoping the hunger of DeGale to finally clinch that world title will make him step it up a notch.

I've been a critic of his since pro day 1, but I genuinely want him to succeed this time. Dirrell has done fuck-all meaningful since 2010, so he should clearly be the underdog unless it goes to the scorecards.

Come DeGale - don't DeFail on this big stage! :box2:

[Barcham]

When is someone going to look into Haymon's connections to promoters? He is basically controlling everything his associated promoters do, which makes him the defacto promoter which is violation of the Ali Act. This stinks so much that I can smell it all the way up here in Canada.

[PulpFriction]

A very intriguing and competitive southpaw slickster match-up. Most likely to be a stinker, but I'm hoping the hunger of DeGale to finally clinch that world title will make him step it up a notch.

I've been a critic of his since pro day 1, but I genuinely want him to succeed this time. Dirrell has done fuck-all meaningful since 2010, so he should clearly be the underdog unless it goes to the scorecards.

Come DeGale - don't DeFail on this big stage! :box2:

I think Degale will win convincingly on the scorecards