Comments Thread For: Joshua Promoter: Our Offer is 'Five Times' Parker's Biggest Purse

[MDPopescu]

And yet for Floyd's biggest fights, he had to do a revenue split.

Just as AJ will have to do for his biggest fights.

... did this happened before or after the Marquez fight?

[Ray*]

Hearn does this a lot. Double standards prick.

He tried to argue Scott Quigg was worth 50-50 with Frampton when Frampton is extremely popular and packing out national stadiums. Whereas Quigg walks from his house to the gym and nobody stops him on the streets apart from his relatives and neighbors. Didn't get his wish.

Tried to argue Haye vs Bellew was 50-50 when Haye still has one of the largest followings there is on the UK boxing scene. Haye still gets invited to all these award shows, premieres etc because the rags want him there and event organisers see that. Didn't get his wish.

Still trying argue that Khan vs Brook should be 50-50 when Brook isn't even more well known than Uzzy Ahmed who is a national joke. On top of which his fighter has more or less quit in two out of three fights. Whereas Khan always had a huge following and it's growing further with casuals currently in the UK. Hearn will not get his wish. Remember...Khan offered Kell Brook his highest payday ever that was a fixed fee...the same thing Hearn is offering here to Parker...yet they turned it down.

So he's a ****ing hypocrite of the highest calibre.

Well said and well put. Hearn is a prick.

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... did this happened before or after the Marquez fight?

Both before and after.

[Robbie Barrett]

And yet for Floyd's biggest fights, he had to do a revenue split.

Just as AJ will have to do for his biggest fights.

Against fighters that were massive draws. How many got even close to or more than 30%? Pacquiao and Mcgregor. Even Canelo didn't even get 25%.

Joshua-Wilder/Parker disparity is more like Mayweather-Maidana/Guerrero etc, where they took a flat fee of less than 5 mil.

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Joshua-Wilder/Parker disparity is more like Mayweather-Maidana/Guerrero etc, where they took a flat fee of less than 5 mil.

As upsetting as it may be to you, the economic principles at heavyweight are often quite different than other weight classes.

If Parker lowered his demand to 70/30, Hearn would immediately accept. If Hearn increased his offer to 67/33, Parker would immediately accept. They'll likely get a deal done in that range.

[Robbie Barrett]

As upsetting as it may be to you, the economic principles at heavyweight are often quite different than other weight classes.

If Parker lowered his demand to 70/30, Hearn would immediately accept. If Hearn increased his offer to 67/33, Parker would immediately accept. They'll likely get a deal done in that range.

Are they? Show us the evidence.

I asked you to name a fighter that gave someone 35%+ to an opponent that wasn't 1/10 the draw, you couldn't. Lets lower it to 30%. Go.

Joshua giving Parker 30% would be extremely generous.

Josephine and Beyonce are being greedy. You know it.

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Are they? Show us the evidence.

Don King paid Lennox Lewis $1 million in cash to vacate the IBF heavyweight title. There has never been a fee paid anywhere close to that amount in any other weight class to convince a champion to vacate.

Mike Tyson paid Lennox Lewis $4 million as a step aside fee. There has never been a step aside fee paid anywhere close to that amount in any other weight class.

All of the highest purse bids in boxing history have been in the heavyweight division, including over $32 million for Buster Douglas' first defense, even though Buster Douglas had no fan base.

There is no other division where the title belts are so important and millions are paid for the belts to be bought and sold.

I asked you to name a fighter that gave someone 35%+ to an opponent that wasn't 1/10 the draw, you couldn't. Lets lower it to 30%. Go.

Parker isn't going to get over 35% and we both know he would accept less than 35%, which is why your original question was disingenuous.

As for a fighter getting 30% despite being a much smaller draw, that happens all the time. 70/30 is the standard split for a WBC mandatory.

Joshua giving Parker 30% would be extremely generous.

This is a business. Generous has nothing to do with it. Joshua would gladly give Parker 30% because it's an easy win for Joshua, the unification would generate massive box office and Joshua would gain even more control of the division by adding a third world title to his collection.

Josephine and Beyonce are being greedy. You know it.

If you want to have an intelligent conversation like a civilized adult, people would take you a lot more seriously if you cut out the childish name calling.