Comments Thread For: Golovkin, Jacobs Running Out of Time - Purse Bid Looms

[HeroBando]

i already assumed ggg is taking much less but the problem is there is only so much money to be made off of a ggg-jacobs fight. 3 million plus for jacobs leaves how much? is this a super secret mega-fight? where is all this money coming from? of course you would never blame haymon but what if haymon didn't overpay jacobs for the quillin fight which lost tons of money? what if jacobs biggest purse was 500k or so. this fight would proabbly get done with reasonable purse splits for both fighters but haymon ruined it. i'm sure you will come up with a way to defend haymon overpaying market value and losing money. you always do

Jacobs told BoxingScene.com. “Like I’ve said, this is a super megafight."

[Chrismart]

Fighters splits/purses are of no concern to me at the end of the day.
The WBA changing the split however, would be a wrong move IMO.
The IBF Board voted unanimously against a similar notion when Groves faced Froch.

GGG should take a flat fees, should have his splits altered to suit his opponent. The guy should just fight for free and make every one happy.

[Raimondo]

Jacobs and Saunders want purses of 5 + mill. to fight GGG. They ain't getting KTFO for peanuts.

[Shadoww702]

From reading the article; it sounds like they really want to make this fight and are open to increasing the purse split.

Are you against them increasing the purse split in order to make the fight happen?

That's what it sounds like to me as well???

No way this fight haooens unless they change the split. And Haymon isn't going to bid knowing he would have to bid at least $10 million to get Jacobs to fight. And he will not pay GGG $7.5 million.

This fight has ZERO chance of happening unless it goes 60/40

[13777]

Well if no Jacobs, maybe Golovkin could go after George Groves

George is fighting Braehmer's son Eduard Gutknecht

[The Big Dunn]

i already assumed ggg is taking much less but the problem is there is only so much money to be made off of a ggg-jacobs fight. 3 million plus for jacobs leaves how much? is this a super secret mega-fight? where is all this money coming from? of course you would never blame haymon but what if haymon didn't overpay jacobs for the quillin fight which lost tons of money? what if jacobs biggest purse was 500k or so. this fight would proabbly get done with reasonable purse splits for both fighters but haymon ruined it. i'm sure you will come up with a way to defend haymon overpaying market value and losing money. you always do

You just want to blame Haymon but this is the same issue that came up in the Saunders fight which doesn't involve Haymon. He hasn't even won the purse bid yet so blaming him is premature.

GGG fights generate enough to pay his low level opponents $100k or whatever paltry purse they make. His fans come out in part because tickets are relatively inexpensive.

When he fights real opponents that command a higher purse there isn't enough unless prices are raised significantly.

K2 can simply raise ticket prices to try and cover everything but they surely are concerned GGG's fanbase may not come out if ticket prices are more expensive.

The fight also is best held on the East Coast, where things are more expensive.

[daggum]

He hasn't taken less again and again. We are only talking about trying to get this fight made.

The goal in fighting Jacobs is getting 1 WBA champ and cleaning out MW. GGG stated his goal is unifying all the belts at MW. to achieve that goal he needs this fight.

If you think $2 mil is fair fine. I don't think he is pricing himself out.

Maybe K2 will just have to lose on this one.

he just split 50-50 with brook and would have done the same with eubank jr. he made 2 mill to lemiuexs 1.5. check the purses for geale, macklin, and some others. very close to even. seems more than fair to me.

we are talking about getting this fight made yet you are only focusing on what ggg can do to get it made...you never blame jacobs for demanding more money than he is worth. he's simply not worth the 3 to 5 million that he wants since he's not popular. k2 can only overpay guys so much. eventually the money is not there. jacobs would still make a great purse if he accepts the fight but maybe he waits and gets lucky with a better deal down the road. prob not since no one cares about him but hey at least he doest get ktfo.

[The Big Dunn]

Not even that, the WBA has one real belt and two paper belts that everyone ignores.

actually they have one belt that was won in the ring and another belt won in the boardroom.

[daggum]

You just want to blame Haymon but this is the same issue that came up in the Saunders fight which doesn't involve Haymon. He hasn't even won the purse bid yet so blaming him is premature.

GGG fights generate enough to pay his low level opponents $100k or whatever paltry purse they make. His fans come out in part because tickets are relatively inexpensive.

When he fights real opponents that command a higher purse there isn't enough unless prices are raised significantly.

K2 can simply raise ticket prices to try and cover everything but they surely are concerned GGG's fanbase may not come out if ticket prices are more expensive.

The fight also is best held on the East Coast, where things are more expensive.

yeah they could make the tickets really expensive then when no one comes give them away and lose millions of dollars. they call that the al haymon strategy

[lizard_man]

Double standards much. Wants 60-40 from cash cow but won't give 60-40 to Jacobs who are equivalent in popularity.