Comments Thread For: Hearn: Wilder, Parker Do Not Warrant a 50-50 Split With Joshua!

[Jubei]

The HW division is just terrible, the top guy, AJ went life and death with 41 year old Wlad, the other so called "champions" are both terrible, barely have any fans, cant sell tickets and have no skills.

[Sosay]

Wilder will take and deserve the 40%

[b00g13man]

Has someone actually asked for this? These guys don't sound positive about making the fight. Like at all.

[kushking]

No ****. Parker and especially Wilder are basically unknowns compared to Joshua. Neither has had the exposure of stopping a Klitschko. Split should be 80-20 for those fights IMO.

Hilarious that you were the gggroupie cryin that ggg deserved his "almost half" bs purse split demands despite only having 100k career ppvs sold & Canelo having 4 mil+ @ the time.

AJ isn't yet a ppv draw only a guaranteed huge stadium draw,& huge British money star so if he deserves 80-20 to Wilder then Canelo deserved 90-10 over ggg. Wilder can sell stadiums on the east coast if he has a good opponent,aka if he didn't keep getting screwed by cheating cowards like Ortiz,so its not like Joshua is the only one bringing money to this fight.

AJ will never become a draw in the us without Wilder because he's only fought Euros & the rest of hw division is eurobums that'll never givem the aura that beating Wilder will,to top it off AJ gets a belt he wants that matters to him way more than it matters to canelo(only other cashcow atm).

Wilder deserves 30% imo because even ggg supposedly got close to that vs canelo. If you think 20% is fair for Wilder you sure aren't boxing logic but boxing chat shît, because your a hypocritical af fanboi.

[Larry the boss]

It's a shame Wilder has spent his whole career fighting bums instead of building a name and a fan base for himself

When your best win is a fat 40 year old journeyman and you can walk the streets in your own home town without being recognised you have no right to demand anything from a rising star like AJ.

Yep so Joshua can just ignore the biggest fight in his division and fight Pulev and Parker and then set up a huge fight with Hugey Fury right?

[Larry the boss]

The HW division is just terrible, the top guy, AJ went life and death with 41 year old Wlad, the other so called "champions" are both terrible, barely have any fans, cant sell tickets and have no skills.

yep, pretty much

[Larry the boss]

Has someone actually asked for this? These guys don't sound positive about making the fight. Like at all.

sure dont....

[keith_head]

No idea what type of source you have but, if that was actually the case, why did he have to sign a deal with Top Rank at all?

Anthony Joshua built his base in the UK, and when the time came, Showtime approached him and his camp for US expansion.

If Parker is already sitting on at least $2m a fight, why would he ever leave New Zealand? Joshua, Klitschko, Wilder, and maybe Fury are the only other heavyweight million dollar fighters, so there should be enough money in New Zealand, assuming what you've stated is true, to basically bring almost every other heavyweight to new Zealand.

And that hasn't been the move.

Parker's purse for Hughie Fury: 1.5 million US http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news...ectid=11915421

Keep in mind Parker's team won the initial purse bid with a $3 million US, and that fight was to happen in NZ. The only reason it didn't was because Hughie Fury pulled out.
The sources for the Ruiz and Takam fights are a little more obscure but you can find them.

Why would they stay in NZ? They want to earn even more money. They negotiate contracts that always get them the NZ PPV buys on sky anyway - this way they can earn more fans, plus maintaining their fan base in NZ, plus the PPV money from said fans.

[Scipio2009]

Parker's purse for Hughie Fury: 1.5 million US http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news...ectid=11915421

Keep in mind Parker's team won the initial purse bid with a $3 million US, and that fight was to happen in NZ. The only reason it didn't was because Hughie Fury pulled out.
The sources for the Ruiz and Takam fights are a little more obscure but you can find them.

Why would they stay in NZ? They want to earn even more money. They negotiate contracts that always get them the NZ PPV buys on sky anyway - this way they can earn more fans, plus maintaining their fan base in NZ, plus the PPV money from said fans.

If Parker was really doing enough business to cover $3m in New Zealand, and Parker was looking to maximize money, it'd make most sense to have enough money standing to bring in any opponent (you could basically fight 98% of the heavyweights on the planet with $500k), and then time things to get the best chance to maximize the international TV (10pm in London, 5pm in New York, 2pm in LA, would mean a 10am Sunday fight time in New Zealand; 10pm in New Zealand would put things at a matinee airing in the UK, and an early morning airing in the US).

Money is still money; maximize your domestic PPV audience, and only move when larger money actually manifests somewhere else.

Maybe I'm underestimating what Top Rank has to offer, but their not doing $3m business with Parker in the US, and I doubt that he's starting anywhere near that in the UK either.

[Sugar Adam Ali]

Totally agree..


Joshua selling out stadiums and selling 1 mil ppv in the U.K.

Wilder barely sells out a civic center in Alabama



No question who the money guy is