Whats the difference between Joshua and Mayweather when it comes to business

[Jc8804]

Think about it.

Mayweather never once made a fight we all wanted when we wanted it.

Mayweather never made a fight with a live dog that didnt bring something to the table

Mayweather wouldnt make a fight that didnt make economic sense.

Mayweather didnt rush into negotiations and make emotional decisions

Mayweather didnt fight outside of his home city as a ppv fighter .


You had to have a good win to earn a mayweather fight . You needed a fan base or a large amount of viewers or be popular in some sense. .

London is now the heavyweight mecca of boxing. It was germany , now its London.

The best heavyweights arent american . The two americans that are considered the best are domestic fighters at this point. Their resumes are weak and they dont have many viewers watching their fights .

Wilder himself needs a shawn porter on his under card to do 650k viewers on showtime .

Wilder is trying to take pennies to a EUROS game. Thats like a knife to a gun fight.

Wilder is the like demietrius Andrade
While Josua is like mayweather when it comes to economics.


Wilder fights whyte and then parker or Fury. Then that makes more sense for joshua to take the fight and maximize his profits. Just like mayweather would do.

This is prize fighting after all

[Bjl12]

Mayweather didnt fight outside of his home city as a ppv fighter .

This is prize fighting after all

It has nothing to do with "homefield". It has to do with money.

Vegas has 0% income tax - ZERO. Fighting in Texas or New York you forfeit 6 cents of every dollar...or 6 million of 100 million...and Floyd did make that kind of money.

Why do that? Like what sense does it make???

[Jc8804]

It has nothing to do with "homefield". It has to do with money.

Vegas has 0% income tax - ZERO. Fighting in Texas or New York you forfeit 6 cents of every dollar...or 6 million of 100 million...and Floyd did make that kind of money.

Why do that? Like what sense does it make???

You cant beat those taxes. If thats the case, why doesnt wilder fight chris arreola or stiverne rematch or even spillka in vegas and save those 6 cents??

[Quiksilva]

Boxing is a business, has, always and will be.

Today it's more prone into the business side of things than for sport. It ain't like old times sake where the best fought the best.

It's all about politics, money revenue, ego etc. A side wants this cut, B side disagrees and wants an equal share, then you've got an argument of both parties disagreeing with each other with no clash for the fans.

If both parties can agree to terms, then you get a mega-clash, but sadly, every fighter wants more than their worth now a days. We're in a spoiled era.

[Bobby Deez]

The difference? Hundreds of million per fight. Why do you ask?

[boliodogs]

I voted they both are cash cows. That means they call the shots. If the other guy doesn't agree to what they offer they just fight somebody else because they make big money no matter who they fight.

[THEFRESHBRAWLER]

The difference is about a hundredmillion dollars, millions of ppvs, 20 world champions, multiple hall of famers. Any more dumb questions?

[Scipio2009]

Floyd was the black hat, Joshua is the white hat (though Floyd definitely had some goodness in him that he kept quiet, and Joshua has a mean streak about him that gets ignored).

Cut the rest of your nonsense.

The deals will get done on terms that make sense to Joshua, just as Floyd made deals that made sense to him.

The move to try and let the media affect the negotiations won't work (after Duco sees that things didn't work, he'll take the Australia rights and whatever the final package offered by Matchroom Sport is and not mention another word about percentage splits on the event) and Eddie Hearn and Haymon/Finkell will hopefully hash out a deal for Wilder-Joshua this coming summer.

[Lester Tutor]

gay thread from the Pac-fanboy

[HarvardBlue]

I think there's a lot more boxers trying to adopt the Mayweather model than Joshua. I doubt you'll ever see Canelo fighting in Brooklyn or MSG. Golovkin would prefer to fight in New York or LA. Joshua will stay right there in the UK as long as he can.

Golovkin and Canelo both acted like they were the A-side until the Jacobs fight. Just like Pacquiao thought he was on equal footing with Mayweather until he "lost" to Bradley and got KO'd by Marquez. After all that they were "ready" to negotiate.

As far as fighting fights we all wanted to see. I think some people just wanted to see Mayweather take fights he was guaranteed to lose.

Boxing is a business and whoever has the better business skills will put themselves in the best position to be the most profitable.