Comments Thread For: Saunders Wants More Money: I Can Beat Gennady Golovkin!

[Dr Rumack]

[jqSide]

I doubt GG would even get $1 million for this fight. He got his first million dollars in the Lemieux fight, which was a PPV.

See how ridiculous these people are? Lara got $1 million each in the Rodriguez and Zaveck fights. Two non-threatening fights. Can you imagine how much he will ask when GG is offered on the table? Quillin wanted Pac/May kind of purses.

They want more than what GG makes.

[SteveM]

This guy needs to realise even if he gets blasted out he can still go back to having his domestic mega fights.

Not really. Part of what makes the Eubank fight a mega fight is that it would be for a world belt. Otherwise it is just two contenders going at it - pretty much like the last fight. The Blackwell fight is in no way a mega fight.

Most Americans don't understand how big boxing is in Britain at the moment. If Carl Froch could make 6 million pounds fighting George Groves there is no reason why Saunders can't make at least $2-3 million fighting a grudge rematch against Eubank with a world title at stake.

[SteveM]

More money or England.

If he can make same amount fighting Eubank in England then more power to him.

If $2 million is the amount being talked about then I imagine he can.

[SteveM]

GGG's wasting his time trying to unify belts at 160. Saunders can run with his WBO for however long he pleases and if he defends his WBO belt until Loeffler reoffers at a later time its still going to tally up to 4-5 million by that time.

I think Saunders confidence is probably higher than prior to the Eubank fight when he admitted he wasn't ready for GGG. Since then he has beaten Eubank and Lee - he'll be feeling high on his ability - so I'm not totally writing off Saunders desire.

[MrClutch85]

Boxing is a business Saunders need to get all the money he can to fight GGG

[FelipeB]

I assume the titles mean nothing to him.

[Daddy T]

Not really. Part of what makes the Eubank fight a mega fight is that it would be for a world belt. Otherwise it is just two contenders going at it - pretty much like the last fight. The Blackwell fight is in no way a mega fight.

Most Americans don't understand how big boxing is in Britain at the moment. If Carl Froch could make 6 million pounds fighting George Groves there is no reason why Saunders can't make at least $2-3 million fighting a grudge rematch against Eubank with a world title at stake.

I'm not convinced. 2-3 million is 4 to 6 times respectively saunders' biggest ever purse (I think). I'm not convinced he could jump that much so quickly against a guy he has already beat t least before the end of 2016. He'd defo break a million for a eubank rematch but after that I dunno.

[SteveM]

I like this guy too, really happy he shut Eubanks Jr up, shocked me beating Lee the way he did but he's right he's got options. I can respect that but there just isn't enough star power between both names to pay him life changing money and make the event profitable so it's likely not going to happen.

Sometimes you take a loss on the front end to make a bigger profit on the back end.

If Golovkin wins the WBO it gives him slightly more leverage against Canelo and also makes that fight for the undisputed MW championship - meaning more money in the pot for PPV.

[Fetta]

If $2 million is the amount being talked about then I imagine he can.

Yeah and if he can then why take a trip over the pond to make same amount. Not to mention he will be the top fighter in his rematch with Eubank and if he does beat Eubank again then this fight is even bigger.

If he can make the same then i see no reason to fight GGG