Comments Thread For: However You Feel, Boxing Needs More Men Like Andre Ward

[kafkod]

Yet you would be cool with it if they were making hlaf and fighting BUMS like Dominic Wade??? At LEAST Ward isn't getting $5,000,000 to fight a guy TWO weight classes smaller.

You're missing the point. GGG deserved $4/5million for fighting Brook because the fight generated enough income to justify paying him that much. Hearn made a profit from the match and so did everybody else involved.

I hope Kovalev/Ward sells enough PPVs to justify Andre's $5million guarantee, but it's a big ask, and if Kovalev had asked for the same amount the fight wouldn't be happening.

[SplitSecond]

Says the one who is ALWAYS BI@TCHING about something. Do you ever just R E L A X and enjoy boxing?? OR do you just TROLL 110% of the time??? This is going to be an AWESOME FKN FIGHT!!! 7 times in HISTORY has TWO top #5 P4P UNDEFEATED fighters with at least 30 wins has fought each other... And yet YOU have a PROBLEM with it???

News to me, I thought I was calm and was looking forward to this fight.

[kafkod]

Whether you like it or not, boxing is all about the money, not fighting guys you want them to fight. Its all about being financially stable.

Boxing is all about the money. That's why it's a bad idea for promoters to pay boxers more than the market for a fight justifies.

If Haymon hadn't been doing that then Danny Jacobs would never have got $1.5million for fighting Quillin and he would have jumped at the chance of challenging for GGG's titles for that amount of money, instead of pulling his ridiculous "I deserve more than 2 Quillins for this" crap.

[NYC8224]

Boxing is all about the money. That's why it's a bad idea for promoters to pay boxers more than the market for a fight justifies.

If Haymon hadn't been doing that then Danny Jacobs would never have got $1.5million for fighting Quillin and he would have jumped at the chance of challenging for GGG's titles for that amount of money, instead of pulling his ridiculous "I deserve more than 2 Quillins for this" crap.

I agree. It gets bad when boxers dont admit that its all about money and they start saying they will fight anybody when its not true

[Shadoww702]

You're missing the point. GGG deserved $4/5million for fighting Brook because the fight generated enough income to justify paying him that much. Hearn made a profit from the match and so did everybody else involved.

I hope Kovalev/Ward sells enough PPVs to justify Andre's $5million guarantee, but it's a big ask, and if Kovalev had asked for the same amount the fight wouldn't be happening.

This fights already sold a sht ton of tickets and is looking to be close to sold out.

Why do you tell everyone don't worry about what GGG makes and then worry about what these two make

[Shadoww702]

Boxing is all about the money. That's why it's a bad idea for promoters to pay boxers more than the market for a fight justifies.

If Haymon hadn't been doing that then Danny Jacobs would never have got $1.5million for fighting Quillin and he would have jumped at the chance of challenging for GGG's titles for that amount of money, instead of pulling his ridiculous "I deserve more than 2 Quillins for this" crap.

So your OK with wasting money on SHT fights??? As long as you get 4-5 of them to make up for that 1 good/great fight that is more expensive??

[kafkod]

I agree. It gets bad when boxers dont admit that its all about money and they start saying they will fight anybody when its not true

Whenever a boxer says they will fight anybody, we should all assume they mean "if the money's right" without them having to say it.

[NYC8224]

Whenever a boxer says they will fight anybody, we should all assume they mean "if the money's right" without them having to say it.

I already do

[NYC8224]

So your OK with wasting money on SHT fights??? As long as you get 4-5 of them to make up for that 1 good/great fight that is more expensive??

Nobody is ok with **** fights but what can you do? Its their income and they want as much as possible and sometimes that doesnt happen with the best fights

[kafkod]

This fights already sold a sht ton of tickets and is looking to be close to sold out.

Why do you tell everyone don't worry about what GGG makes and then worry about what these two make

I'm not worried about anything, just stating my opinion.

If I thought Ward was going to win, then I might be worried, because he would likely price himself out of every option afterwards and end up hibernating 3 world titles the way he did with the WBA SMW belt.