Comments Thread For: World Of Boxing Wins Wilder-Povetkin Purse Bid

[Fetta]

Why are people saying the purse bids are low? I don't get it. Do they deserve like $5 million each? I think $5million split sounds about right, but $7 million split is more than fine. Neither of these guys are PPV fighters who are going to draw a whole lot. Did people expect $8-10million or something?

Thats what i was thinking.

Im not even convinced this fight is worth 5 million

[BostonGuy]

That's a weird bid on Dibella's part. Sounds like they got bad information. Boxtime must have texted him that Team Povetkin was going to bid $5,100,000.

It's like when on "The Price is Right" the last bidder bids a dollar more than the highest bidder.

[imperial1]

Povetkin got screwed here

[Tom Cruise]

Wilder made millions managing to face Szpilka, Duhaupas and Molina when he was supposed to have an immediate mandatory versus Jennings. As everything has played out he can not begrudge the purses being what they are, Wilder simply isn't a big draw.

To think Fury and Wilder is considered to be the biggest fight in the division I don't see a lot of money in that either, surely Fury won't be on ppv again in the UK after his last performance.

Any combo of Fury/Joshua/Haye/Wilder/Wlad (if he beat Fury and continued fighting) would be big news over here. Probably PPV.

Fury will hype any fight hes in no matter if he is boring in the ring.

[Tom Cruise]

Why are people saying the purse bids are low? I don't get it. Do they deserve like $5 million each? I think $5million split sounds about right, but $7 million split is more than fine. Neither of these guys are PPV fighters who are going to draw a whole lot. Did people expect $8-10million or something?

Its more to do with the fact that both guys are backed by big money who have been known to overpay in the past. With those two bidding against each other I expected some crazy numbers to fly around.

But you are right this winning bid is decent money and about what you'd expect for two moderately popular HW's in a potential 50-50

[-Kev-]

I expected around 10 million. I thought both sides were geared to overpay massively for this fight.

Then what would have happened was people would probably complain that Wilder is earning too much, and talk about the 'starving' fighters like Roman Gonzalez that can't even get $1million. I think it's just about right to be honest. You said so yourself, "overpay", so it's just about right.

[Tom Cruise]

70/30 split champ gets lions share if have to travel to another country for fights gets extra 5% I believe and wbc just setup new 10% to winner rule so splits now be a little different

Cheers.

Great money for Wilder

[MrRolltide91]

I wonder will a fight between wilder and fury be on pbc or ppv

[PACnPBFsuck]

Hopefully this fight happens the same day as David Haye's fight

[Cinci Champ]

well that sucks the biggest united states hw fight in 15 years and it wont even be in the states. what a bummer