Gary russell jr. Pushes for higher purses

[SterlingStained]

If you look at boxing as a comedic act instead of a sport, it is quite amusing. The U.S. population is ~320M. What are the chances there are 800K Americans that would recognize Gary Russell Jr. on the street?

the US population is not 320 million lmfaaoooooooo come on man....

its closer to 500 million.

[Kagami Taiga]

the US population is not 320 million lmfaaoooooooo come on man....

its closer to 500 million.

only if you include uncencused illeegals and other immigrants. But the working total is about 320mil current citizens.

[WarMaidana]

what a joke this clown is. Good don't come back

[Porter's Dad]

Thank you, Al Haymon. Thank you once again.

[bojangles1987]

So sick of hearing this garbage. Morons won't fight anyone and wonder why they aren't stars. So much great talent sitting around doing nothing.

No one knows who the **** you are, Gary, why do you expect millions?

[Squ□redCircle34]

Gary Russell Jr. Aka Super needs to stop bsing and get his fists on Lee Selby who I think he'd do a job on and take his belt and unify WBC/IBF!

Would love to see Russell Jr. vs Valdez and Santa Cruz!

[Dean_Razorback]

They're all sickening hypocrites. They say they shouldn't have to face a dangerous opponent for anything less than lottery money because it's their health at stake. Fighters have to be taken care of etc. Then they're happy to beat up some hopelessly overmatched guy getting paid peanuts. It is fucking disgusting.

But at the end of the day the system is a disaster and this sort of bullshit Russell is spouting is merely enabled by it. It is far from the root cause. Russell will stop sitting on his ass, waiting for ridiculous money once that strategy stops working. As a fan you just have to pray that someday the sport corrects itself and a guy on Russell's level looking to take one semi-serious fight every two years will starve. That, and only that, will fix the sport.

So sick of hearing this garbage. Morons won't fight anyone and wonder why they aren't stars. So much great talent sitting around doing nothing.

No one knows who the **** you are, Gary, why do you expect millions?

this. i didn't start the thread because i care about russell jr to be honest lol but because is the mentality of this guys in a nutshell.

they should know their value, i get it. you don't fight for free. but again, how can this guy make a million dollars fighting that irish dude in a crappy fight that no one saw? how can you justify that money? where does it come from? why can't the PBC suporters admit that this fighters aren't worthy that amount of money and that they are being over paid?

[Fetta]

Pursue it. If he gets it good for him and if he doesn't then hope he doesn't over play hand.

[bojangles1987]

They're all sickening hypocrites. They say they shouldn't have to face a dangerous opponent for anything less than lottery money because it's their health at stake. Fighters have to be taken care of etc. Then they're happy to beat up some hopelessly overmatched guy getting paid peanuts. It is fucking disgusting.

But at the end of the day the system is a disaster and this sort of bullshit Russell is spouting is merely enabled by it. It is far from the root cause. Russell will stop sitting on his ass, waiting for ridiculous money once that strategy stops working. As a fan you just have to pray that someday the sport corrects itself and a guy on Russell's level looking to take one semi-serious fight every two years will starve. That, and only that, will fix the sport.

Pretty sure we agreed on this before. Boxing needs to face a harsh reality if it has any chance of rebounding. It would be very tough for the sport and it's possible that no one is willing to face that reality, but no one will be able to afford this crap eventually.

The sport will either revert to the old days of a lot more fights for a lot less money or it will fail entirely.

[Dip_Slide]

Championship level fighters are making, what 50 times as much as the average income and still complaining? **** him, strip him, send his ass back to fighting TBAs.

Boxers aren't degree holders nor do they ever have any other profession other than boxing, boxing is a fulltime job and u only have 1/3 of your life to make enough money to make sure that u have enough money in the other 2/3s. u need these big paydays and you have to make investments.

Question here is : Does Gary Russel generate enough money/viewership to justify him getting that kind of money? He himself said that boxing is business, well if it is a business then u have to give ur employer reasons to pay u wat u wanna get paid, nobody is in the business to take a loss. these fighters today absolutely suck at promoting themselves and bring nothing to the table outside of the ring, very few self promoters in the game today and that's what's really hurting the sport, even so more than mismatches.