Comments Thread For: Naoya Inoue vs. Kal Yafai a Non-Starter Over Money

[sammybee]

Eddie Hearn has chickened out for Kal Yafai.

[Sid-Knee]

For a fight as big as Inoue would be, you'd expect Yafai to get paid at least a little bit more than he does for a title defence. So i'm not surprised it's not getting made.

Hopefully they find a good top ten fighter for him next.

[Mammoth]

Yafai was probably only willing to fight Chocolatito. I'd still pick Chocolatito. Now we can only hope Cuadras and Inoue get good opponents.

[chrisJS]

Yafai was offered a figure similar to what he made last time against a regular contender and Wilder was offered 10x what he makes each fight and sure enough the race rooters stand by their guns that Wilder - who hasn't beaten ANYONE of note in a decade long 39 fight career and can't pack Barclays or his hometown with free tickets deserves 50/50 or better against a guy who's packed 80k twice and made $15-20m twice.

Do we have biased fans on this board?

[NEETzsche]

Yafai is too talented to waste his career fighting bums, Hearn needs to secure a legit top 10 opponent for him next. I can see why Gonzalez would be top priority, but if they can't secure that then the plan B needs to be strong too

[Geon]

Yafai was offered a figure similar to what he made last time against a regular contender and Wilder was offered 10x what he makes each fight and sure enough the race rooters stand by their guns that Wilder - who hasn't beaten ANYONE of note in a decade long 39 fight career and can't pack Barclays or his hometown with free tickets deserves 50/50 or better against a guy who's packed 80k twice and made $15-20m twice.

Do we have biased fans on this board?

FINALLY we have someone with some sense