The split ultimately comes down to the pulling power of the fighter and, love him or hate him, AJ is up there right now as the biggest draw in the sport. At best, Wilder should get 35-40% up front. Yes, he's a beltholder, but he's still relatively unknown (check out the video of Hearn going up to randoms in NY asking if they knew who Deontay Wilder was). What might clinch the deal, if AJ and Wilder come through their next defences, would be for Hearn to reverse the shares in the event of Wilder winning, similar to what he's done with the Parker deal. So if Wilder wins, he walks away with 60-65%.
AJ already said money won't get in the way of him fighting Wilder.
Harder to sell those kind of tickets in usa. We have many more major sport options than boxing. I know soccer/cricket/boxing round out the top sports in uk. But in Usa you can see nba, nfl, mlb, nhl and not mention Ncaa sports. Its not apples to apples measuring ticket sales in uk v usa.
Boxing is joint 9th with Golf as the most watched sport in the UK. Anymore excuses?
It's still confusing how he can sell this number of tickets and the live gates are always around $10 million.
Are tickets prices regulated in the UK? Somebody from the UK, help me out. You'd think they'd start raising the rate a little.
Awesome for AJ though. Eddie winning again. Should be a good scrap.
That is pretty slim. 10m/70k=$142.85 as an avg sale per ticket. I bet they make up for it in liquor and merch sales. UK fighters end up ****** rich somehow.
cant we all just appreciate that frank warren is sat in his dusty old office looking like bricktop from snatch sucking a lemon whilst licking piss off a stinging nettle.
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