Ward $1.85 mil Barrera $450K

[daggum]

No to mention Walters Would be lucky to sell 500 tickets by himself.

I'm excited to see Ward back in the ring, but I Kniw he will quickly remind me of how terrible his fights usually are.

it will literally take half a round and you will be bored. by the fourth you will barely be paying attnetion and by the 7th you probably will be playing on your phone or scrolling the internet

[MDPopescu]

#WardBarrera purses from commission: Ward $1.85 million. Barrera $450,000. Diaz $50K. Velez $30K. #boxing

— Mike Coppinger (@MikeCoppinger) March 25, 2016

... Ward takes his usual money for this Banderas and vanishes into the landscape... again.

[Pigeons]

I'm pretty sure Ward's guarantee per fight is $2M and the initial offer to Barrera was $300K. It seems that Ward gave Barrera $150K from his own purse in order to get Barrera to accept the fight.

This clears up Ward's quote about negotiations when he said "they're not gonna get rich off us". Anything over $300K for Barrera needed to come out of Ward's purse.

[FeFist]

Lol they offered this much for Ward vs Barrera but not for Loma vs Walters?

1) Ward is an American Olympic Gold medallist.

2) Ward is the more proven professional boxer.

3) This fight is probably part of a package that will see him fight Kovalev later this year.

[bigjavi973]

people really comparing ward to walters

[OnePunch]

Barrera getting more than Walters was initially offered vs Loma I think. F#cked up HBO is spending $2.2M on Ward vs a guy everyone pretty much knows is gonna lose & they won't spend more than a $1M on Loma vs Walters two of the top guys in their divisions. This probably explains why HBO is throwing HBO Boxing less & less money each year.

you havent the slightest idea how much HBO is paying Roc. You only know how much Roc is paying Ward & Barrera.

[NaijaD]

people really comparing ward to walters

Yeah it's a joke.

Ward is a bigger name and actually does good numbers in Oakland, Where the hell is Walters going to sell any tickets??

[AddiX]

it will literally take half a round and you will be bored. by the fourth you will barely be paying attnetion and by the 7th you probably will be playing on your phone or scrolling the internet

I turned off his last fight on BET pretty quickly.

I was a big ward fan, picked him to win the super 6 and all, but he's just so boring.

Boxing isn't in the place where it once was where boring fighters could still make a killing nd have a big fan base. This kind of crap won't be tolerated by fans and networks anymore IMO.

[Redd Foxx]

Boxing isn't in the place where it once was where boring fighters could still make a killing nd have a big fan base. This kind of crap won't be tolerated by fans and networks anymore IMO.

Eh... ever heard of the greatest money maker in the history of the sport, whose nickname happens to be "Money", who pulled in 4.4 million views in one fight last year, and still managed to do something like 500k in a subsequent joke fight afterward (while Genady "action man" Golovkin struggled to do 20% of that)?

[NapalmKnuckles]

I turned off his last fight on BET pretty quickly.

I was a big ward fan, picked him to win the super 6 and all, but he's just so boring.

Boxing isn't in the place where it once was where boring fighters could still make a killing nd have a big fan base. This kind of crap won't be tolerated by fans and networks anymore IMO.

^^^You can thank HBO and **** **** Lampley for great boxing fans like this...