Is Nicholas Walters The Worst Negotiator Of All Time?

[HI-TECH Boxing]

Well, that sucks for him.
I don't understand why people are getting mad at Lomachenko for this though. It's not his fault Walters is getting paid that much.
Maybe Walters should have taken the original offer.

The reason Loma gets paid a good amount is because of his contract. When he signed to go pro his team and him negotiated a great contract and Top Rank really really wanted to sign him. Can't be mad at that. Most would have done the same.
Fighters in the past (like 5-15 or so years ago) were making more and they weren't draws. I don't remember seeing people mad at those fighters.

[deanrw]

The problem with this post is that you actually believe Arum when he says he offered Walters $550,000 and that Lomachenko actually offered to give Walters $300,000 if Walters won the fight.

Arum also claimed that he offered Miguel Cotto $13 million for a rematch with Pacquiao when the actual offer was $6.5 million (according to Cotto) -- the same amount he paid Cotto for the first Pacquaio fight. Arum also claimed that he was involved in a second negotiation for a Mayweather/Pacquaio fight and gave Mayweather a deadline for accepting the fight. Arum later revelaled that his idea of a negotiation consisted of one phone call to the president of HBO saying, "this is what we want".

If you believe anything Arum says, I have a bridge I want to sell you.

The problem is that you failed to do research. This is from Walters own mouth

Lomachenko is one of the better opponents that we're gonna fight," Walters told ******.com on Tuesday. "We asked for a certain amount; they said no. They said only $550,000 was available for the fight and I think fighting Lomachenko for $550,000 with the tax we're gonna pay to the government and everybody, we actually go home with nothing. We took the decision; we're not gonna fight for $550,000."