So Ward wants part of the PPV cut from Cotto-Canelo

[rudy]

where did you get this form please send a link, or you just talking rubbish like most of the users on the forum

[Eff Pandas]

I think Ward got into one of those bubbles where people tell you what you wanna hear all day after the Super Six success. There has been 1 good move & many bad moves since then that has lowered his value, but because he's in this bubble he's the last one to realize it.

He came into the Super Six tournament as a 20-0 25 year old prospect in 2009. Leaves it as a 25-0 27 year old undisputed #1 guy in his division in 2011. Then he doesn't fight for 9 months, then he doesn't fight for 14 months & finally he doesn't fight for 19 months. I think the Dawson fight in 2012 was a good move even if he gets **** for not bending on the weight, but in the 3 years since that fight he's done f#ck all & thats greatly hurt his momentum, but he don't know I don't think cuz of that yesman bubble he's in.

[Pigeons]

That's funny if true. Ward is either trolling or they're only offering him like $500K to appear on the undercard. Ward's gotten used to his $2M minimum per fight.

[NEETzsche]

it would be an excellent opportunity for him even if he was fighting for free like fonfara did on that adamek undercard. it's probably going to be another tune-up anyway, right?

[Savage Poster]

That's funny if true. Ward is either trolling or they're only offering him like $500K to appear on the undercard. Ward's gotten used to his $2M minimum per fight.

The world would be a better place without pieces of s**t like you and Andre coWard in it.

[Wolfie*]

lets be fair here ward been trying to tell the public for years that ggg didnt want to fight him and he understood it. then when **** got real he said ok lets do it then and ggg ducked it is what it is ward wants the fight ggg dont now ward will have to goto 175 to fight kovalev which he will at some point and do what ggg was scared to do

That has nothing to do with the topic of this thread. Ward doesn't deserve any cut. Just be happy his ass will be on a PPV for once.

[elfag]

Getting Andre Ward onto the Cotto-Canelo PPV will likely cost ~$2m for the fight (~$1.75m to Ward, ~$250k for an opponent for Ward); Floyd Mayweather had to pay out ~$2.2m to get Garcia-Matthysse as the co-feature on the Mayweather-Alvarez PPV, and adding Ward to the bill should have that kind of impact.

Once that gets settled, it's simply a matter of how RocNation finances getting Ward onto the PPV; front the cost for Ward, or don't front the cost but get him a piece of the upside.

Cotto-Alvarez
Ward-TBA
Miura-Vargas
-fourth fight

You pull the payouts to Canelo, Cotto and Ward, and you probably finance the rest of the bill with $1m (completely ignore the MGM site fee to host the fight at Mandalay Bay, as that was already split between Cotto and Alvarez).

Price the PPV $60sd/$70hd; fight clears 800k PPV buys and, after all the various payouts to other parties, you've got $25m to divvy up.

$1.75m off of the $25m in proceeds comes out to about 7% (if the fight proves to be as big as Oscar seems to believe it to be, that number could be down at 5%).

$2m up front or 5% off of the proceeds on the fight isn't that bad of a choice.

Thats fine. Just as long as the Headliners are getting the bulk of the split. Yuck. It ****** having to say that Canelo and Cotto should get paid more than Ward. Though they deserve it more than Ward, Ward is clearly light years better than both fighters.

Garcia-Lucas and Cotto-Canelo are both big name match ups that people want to see and relatively evenly matched.

Nobody wants to see ward fight another cab driver and ward has no fans outside his hometown. If he was fighting a big name, then I could see him getting ppv portion but hes not. flat rate or go home.