The REAL purses for Kovalev vs. Ward.

[FinitoxDinamita]

Mann some of you kids dont know **** about the business side of boxing.

Why does kovalev deserve more than 2 mill?just because he is appealing to the hardcore fans dont mean ****.

People in general do not know who da *** Kovalev is.

[HanzGruber]

What were the old numbers?

[Pigeons]

that doesn't count the money that kovalev gets paid in russia like the foreign tv $$. lots of foreign fighters don't report their full purses in the US to pay less taxes

Kovalev lives in America. Are you saying he's performing tax evasion?

[RyanjLarose]

How so? Ward is the bigger name, Kovalev is a Russian who travels to wherever his opponent wants to fight because he has to (not like he has a fanbase in Florida) and in order to make a fight of this magnitude and of this significance, especially against a proud control freak like Ward, he had to take less money. Otherwise he would never fight. He did the same against Hopkins, albeit for a much smaller combined pot, and against Pascal which I believe was his biggest purse to date.

I don't think there are too many scenarios where Kovalev is going to make much more than $2m, that's just the reality of his situation. He's not a star by any means and while us hardcore fans mostly love to watch him fight, that isn't really enough to bump him up to stardom.

I think the biggest fight he can possibly make realistically is against Stevenson and that's because of the fans in Canada.

Worth pointing out he can make more than $2m against Ward should the event sell well, but then again we don't k now the details on the PPV structure, perhaps most of it goes to Ward, perhaps that was the only way to make the fight, we don't know the specifics of the negotiations (Ward is notoriously difficult to deal with so that very well could be the case).

Montreal ****

[Motorcity Cobra]

not at all. He can get paid foreign tv rights in his country not here. He also has Krusher Promotions and can get paid that way too where he has more tax write offs.

Just like Pacquiao gets a certain purse paid to him fight night and also gets paid through his MP Promotions

But that's not what you said. You made it seem like they were paying him under the table.

[killakali]

But that's not what you said. You made it seem like they were paying him under the table.

no i didnt lol i explained that most foreign fighters make more thanwhat is reported to the comission

[killakali]

Kovalev lives in America. Are you saying he's performing tax evasion?

nope. that is how most foreign fighters get paid. kovalev has a home here in la and also several in russia