Comments Thread For: Tureano Johnson Signs With Golden Boy Promotions

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Haymon/Dibella aren't going to let Andy Lee take any fight for short money; say what you want about Quillin-Jacobs being "minor league", Lee picked up $500k to fight Peter Quillin (plus whatever other money he got from Sky Sports) in a co-feature. Quillin-Jacobs is a big fight, and Lee fighting the winner, somewhere on the East Coast, is likely a big enough fight to headline it's own show.

Add up the money from being the champion in a main event, plus his share of the UK TV money, and you're looking at $1m-$2m in total compensation on the fight. Let me know when K2 pays a Golovkin opponent even $1m, lol.

HBO refused to even entertain the idea of bidding on Stevenson-Kovalev; what makes you think they'd pay up for Golovkin-Lee.

lee made 500k against quillin, hbo/k2 paid geale 600k when he fought ggg so i'm not sure why you are talking about short money and k2 not paying opponents. pretty clear they will pay to get good fighters in the ring. look at how they juts got lemieux in the ring. they had to pay him a couple million but you think lee-jacobs/quillin which "might headline a show" is more lucrative than a ggg fight which definitely will headline and might even be on ppv? also the uk revenue which you are factoring in will exist for both fights so yeah doesn't make any sense.

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lee made 500k against quillin, hbo/k2 paid geale 600k when he fought ggg so i'm not sure why you are talking about short money and k2 not paying opponents. pretty clear they will pay to get good fighters in the ring. look at how they juts got lemieux in the ring. they had to pay him a couple million but you think lee-jacobs/quillin which "might headline a show" is more lucrative than a ggg fight which definitely will headline and might even be on ppv? also the uk revenue which you are factoring in will exist for both fights so yeah doesn't make any sense.

$500k plus the UK broadcast money (fight was carried by BoxNation); and that's before considering the penalty money and other revenue. All for a fight that was a co-feature, no less.

Lee(c) vs Quillin-Jacobs winner is a big enough fight to headline its own PBC show; in either showdown (Lee-Quillin II or Lee-Jacobs), Lee is going to be entitled to the lion's share of the take. If Lee doesn't get a $1m purse as his PBC check, I'd be shocked (let alone the money that he'd get for the UK broadcast).

You pulled the "couple million" figure out of thin air, and you know it; the entire proceeds from the fight is unlikely to even get to $8m, let whatever the total available for the fighters after the promoters take their cuts. On top of that, Golovkin just had a fight where he took a 12:1 split on the fighter money. gtfoh with that bull****.