Comments Thread For: Kovalev Angry About Purse Discrepancy for Ward Rematch

[Eff Pandas]

This is that BS you hear when you tryin to justify screwing somebody over

Sure I don't disagree with your overall point, but honestly she does have a point too. If something makes $100, but you paid $120 for it its not a good business move.

My guessimation is this PPV would have to do 200k buys just to cover Ward's purse. Now obviously I don't know all the revenue & expenses beyond that, but that seems like Ward is being overpaid like a mfer on the expectations of this fight in the PPV marketplace.

And thats not even a diss to Ward cuz f#ck b^tches get money is fair play, but Roc Nation is f#cking ******ed in how they operate from best I can tell.

[future hendrixx]

thats why ward told him to check the numbers when kovalev was bragging on social media about signing the contract first. lol

the guy is a neanderthal with the IQ of a rock. duva is running through his pockets like usain bolt. and they have no shame blaming ward for this.

hes mad doe lol

[Travycat]

I guess HOV has that extra money to throw at Ward.

No. I believe it's a 50/50 split.

Duva is giving Kovalev 75% of their 50% which will be a few mil at best for Kova.

While Roc Nation have given Ward a guaranteed $6.5 mil and whatever else. Roc Nation is going to lose money paying Ward. Kovalev is jealous that Ward is getting overpaid.

[anonymous2.0]

Ward does seem to be overly concerned with what his opponents make, but really Duva and ME are the ones ******** with Sergei's paycheck. Honestly Kovalev is the only guy keeping ME afloat and they treat him like crap

[Real King Kong]

The shame in all this is that kovalev has to come into the biggest fight of his career with all this bs on his mind. His team's job is to limit distractions so kovalev can focus on fighting, not add to them.

[saopaulo]

gay z is a joke, 1 of the worst sellout went pop wrapper

[SN!PER]

Don't make Kovalev angry. You wouldn't like him when he's angry.

[BWC]

Probably the worst promoted fight in history. Both promoters are bottom of the barrel

[Motorcity Cobra]

Why is Kovalev upset with Ward? Unless there's word that Ward failed to show up at promotionals event how is he not promoting the fight enough? This kinda drama doesn't motivate a fighter it's actually distracting. Even if he knocks Ward cold there's no guarantee he's getting paid a lot of money for it. People talk about a certain fighter who I will not mention but this is the kind of BS he's been talking about for years.

Ward didn't know Kovalev's pay was based on how well the PPV does.

It's not ward's fault Kovalev has a manager and promoter that should be looking out for him instead both made him sign a shyt contract. Barrera manager had him walk away from a shyt deal that Kathy tried to shove down his throat. I blame his manager first and his cheap promoter second. Kathy got fighters left and right barking about the money they getting. Not a good look for future fighters who are watching this saying no chance I sign with them.

Forgot about the Barrera situation.

Kovalev is crying about Ward being overpaid not the deal with Duva.

A guarantee only comes in to play if the fight makes less than the guarantee.

If Kovalev gets 75% with a $2mil guarantee and he makes $3mil, he still makes $3mil without the guarantee.

There is no guarantee. The pic I posted in my topic shows the guarantee, Kovalev doesn't have one

[Corelone]

Better fighters have been done worse. Be it too soon, too much weight they had to fight. The list goes on and on... I once saw a fight between a LWH vs. a WW... The WW was DESTROYED. He could only run for so long.

Canelo vs Khan?