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

[Lopez_Boxing]

Like 5x your highest purse?

Some people believe Joshua should make the same or less what he got for Takam to fight Wilder or Parker.


Why should Joshua's opponents get so much more than they normally do but Joshua shouldn't

The only fair way is to see how much a fighter averages and work out the percentages from that. Which would mean Wilder nor Parker get more than 10%. Joshua is being more than fair offering 25%+ and getting **** from ******s.

Everyone should maximize their payday. I don’t promote greed. What’s the belt worth to AJ?

[bronx7]

It’s simple A+ side gets lion share do you want 50% of a low purse or 30% of a 70,0000 stadium purse making highest payday of your career a few times over like it or not Joshua king of Europe

[7NN]

5 times eh? will it be comparable to 1% of revenue?

[KillaCamNZ]

Well, considering a title challenger is guaranteed 25% of the purse (both WBA and IBF rules), it makes sense that a title v title fight would guarantee slightly more than that for the B-side.

Just sign off on 35% and be done with it. Joshua deserves the majority, but if this fight isn't made, he's not exactly blessed with quality options. Fans demand a big fight, now. There's reason to make it happen.

Where's the guy who was claiming Joshua doesn't need Parker, when he can fight either Wlad or Vitali instead? ****ing idiot.

[Pennsauken1]

Hey Hearn, stop low balling fighters and pay them, you fraud

[NahMean]

Parker's highest pay was 4.9mil.. didn't know he got paid so much.. He's earnt more than Wilder has.

[Karoriori]

Parker's highest pay was 4.9mil.. didn't know he got paid so much.. He's earnt more than Wilder has.

Surely not that much but well over a million possibly a few times. He's certainly not strapped for cash made a decent amount from the Takam and Ruiz fights. I think Ruiz did about 70k PPV in NZ alone for a country of 4.5million that's not bad at all.

[Deus]

Well, considering a title challenger is guaranteed 25% of the purse (both WBA and IBF rules), it makes sense that a title v title fight would guarantee slightly more than that for the B-side.

Just sign off on 35% and be done with it. Joshua deserves the majority, but if this fight isn't made, he's not exactly blessed with quality options. Fans demand a big fight, now. There's reason to make it happen.

Where's the guy who was claiming Joshua doesn't need Parker, when he can fight either Wlad or Vitali instead? ****ing idiot.

35% of total revenue (which is what Higgins wants) isn't the same as 35% of the purse.

[JRB123]

“Contrary to what people may think the Joshua fight would not have paid Parker that much. Remember if the fight had gone to purse bids it would have been split 75-25 to Joshua so the negotiations were centred around that basic point.”

Furthermore Lonergan feels that a Parker win over Ruiz would make the unification clash with Joshua more lucrative.

But he wants to face another Brit before tackling Joshua.

“Yes we are hoping to get David Haye before we go for a unification with Joshua,” he emphasized.

http://www.boxingscene.com/parkers-promoter-explains-why-they-picked-ruiz-not-joshua--110709

^^^ this was last November. They were more interested in going after the WBO belt than facing Joshua at the time, and AJ ended up fighting Molina before the Wlad fight while Parker took on Andy Ruiz for the vacant belt...I can't find how much Parker got for that fight. The lead-in to the fight is notable because funds had to be scrounged up for the fight to even take place.

Now after that, Duco Events paid Parker 1.46 million dollars to fight Hughie Fury in Manchester, so he hasn't earned anything more than that. To me, it looks like Parker getting 6 to 8 million dollars would be a big jump in earnings. If he got 6 million out of a 21 million dollar purse, that would be 28%.

I think that a lot of people are complaining about the percentages but not knowing what the amount of the purse will be (and who is paying it).

Parker should not get more than 8 million in a fight against Joshua.

UPDATE: Think about what Lonergan said last year. A Joshua-Parker fight "would not have paid Parker that much", but yet Duco Events gave Parker 1.46 million dollars in his last fight. Even if there was a 75-25 split now with the sample purse that I threw out (21 million), Parker still earns nearly four times the amount of his highest purse.

[Quiksilva]

Joseph Parker's promoter is a piece of ****, the guy is unprofessional and a money hungry twat.

Was it the guy that got into an argument with Hughie Fury's trainer?