Comments Thread For: Hearn: Wilder wants 7 million, I want an 11-Inch penis - no chance!

[Stinger1]

O2 holds 20K people. It will sell out at $500 average price ticket that's $10 mil. Probable will be on Sky Box and will get 100k buys at $50 so another $5 mil, sponsership etc. Whyte will get $1.5 mil. So Wilder asking for $7 mil isn't unreasonable because Hearn will make $7/8 mil gross maybe $2 mil in promotional cost and bank $5/6 mil.

Your numbers are miles off. Average ticket price is $200 at most. That's $4m. Sky always charge $25 although I would say this fight would do 500,000 buys. That's $16.5m total. Sky take 50% that's $10.25m to pay promotional cost, undercard and Wilder and Whyte.

[Scipio2009]

It is very well known Matchroom get 25% of the net profit of the show and the fighter keeps the other 75%, after the other fighters are paid and Sky Sports have taken their cut. If Matchroom were clearing $4m then Whyte would making $12m based on that logic.

A sell at the o2 doesn't generate more than $3m and 500,000 PPV's at $25 is $12.5m. That's $15.5m where Sky Sports take 40-50% and then marketing and logistical costs as well as the undercard need to be paid. Eddie is not ****** he's not going to give Wilder a guarantee where he could end up losing money. Wilder will still have upside from the PPV.

Even if Sky takes 50%, by your own count that puts 10 million (not sure if you're talking dollars or British pounds) in the pot.

Marketing/logistics/undercard will cost what it will cost, but he'd be delivering a big fight for Dillian Whyte and the UK (especially at a time where Anthony Joshua's next fight may not be in the UK), at a price that isn't unreasonable, where he could still earn on the upside (Wilder's not Joshua but a Heavyweight title fight is still a Heavyweight title fight).

If even the basic number approaches 10 million, why in the heck would Wilder take $3m to fight a voluntary on Whyte's home turf?

$7m may be too high a number, but what would be wrong with Wilder getting 6 million, Matchroom Sport paying the logistics costs, and then making their own money on the balance left from the 10 million and any upside there is on the event, pending their split with Whyte?

Golovkin didn't get upside on the Brook PPV because it was Brook's show; why would this be different?

[goldenbear]

Wilder is doing the math..........

O2 holds 20K people. It will sell out at $500 average price ticket that's $10 mil. Probable will be on Sky Box and will get 100k buys at $50 so another $5 mil, sponsership etc. Whyte will get $1.5 mil. So Wilder asking for $7 mil isn't unreasonable because Hearn will make $7/8 mil gross maybe $2 mil in promotional cost and bank $5/6 mil.

[club fighter]

He should have said he had the 11" and that's why AJ is smiling all the time.

[Snoop Frog]

Hearn has more than 7 million and Wilder has an 11 inch peen, I'm sure they could work something out!

[alexguiness]

I think Eddie is probably pretty well hung, nice chubby girthy type.

[killakali]

Deontay Wilder's not going to see $7m to travel, but you're a fool if you think the $3m + US TV is the breakeven point for Wilder-Whyte at O2 Arena.

Even if you pay Whyte $1m (I doubt he gets that much), there's a ton of money in the pot for that fight in the UK and Wilder knows it. Between the potential gate at O2 and a Sky Box Office event featuring a heavyweight title and a Brit, you're looking at a nice take. It's not going to generate the alleged 35 million gbp that Joshua-Klitschko did, but you're kidding yourself if you don't think that Wilder-Whyte couldn't end up doing near 10 million gbp.

Deontay Wilder was a co-promoter for his fights in Alabama, and is likely getting more than just his disclosed purse in New York City; don't kid yourself.

Wilder's not going to travel to the UK, for a voluntary defense, against a Brit who was barely in the WBC's top ten, on short money.

hes only had 1 purse disclose at 7 figures so. youre the one whop says to go by that. even if you double his purse to 1.8 or 1.9 its still only half of what a whyte fight brings plus whyte is an easy win for wilder. case closed

[Luilun]

Hearn has more than 7 million and Wilder has an 11 inch peen, I'm sure they could work something out!

Are you sure of that

[Kigali]

lol yeah I just googled Wilder vs Klitschko..... weird, nothing showed up? Run rabbit run


Whether we like it or not boxing is still money and politics and its rare we see the fights that we want (or when we want). Hearn knows he holds all the cards and Wilders poor record has left him playing second best to AJ only 19 fights into his career. Whatever you think of AJ he is the money maker at HW now.

What I don't want is AJ vs Wilder in 3 or 4 years time. Really needs to happen 2018 to make it meaningful.

AJ's record is poor just like his stamina.

[Wibble]

They'd rather brag about 90k ticket sales and a 41 y/o Vlad.

The bar is set really low across the pond.

lol yeah I just googled Wilder vs Klitschko..... weird, nothing showed up? Run rabbit run


Whether we like it or not boxing is still money and politics and its rare we see the fights that we want (or when we want). Hearn knows he holds all the cards and Wilders poor record has left him playing second best to AJ only 19 fights into his career. Whatever you think of AJ he is the money maker at HW now.

What I don't want is AJ vs Wilder in 3 or 4 years time. Really needs to happen 2018 to make it meaningful.