Parker will earn £7 million, while AJ close to £18 million!

[M Bison]

Parker is earning that much money lmfao, no way should he be getting that kind of dosh he isn't attracting ****!
Should be getting 2-3m tops and that would be his career high payday he won't ever see cash like that again, I sure as **** ain't buying this PPV.

[Scipio2009]

Wilder is making 1 million, 2 million max per fight.

AJ is making 20, 30 million.

Get the difference?

The fight can get made in the UK, no problem about that.

Vegas grows the money on the fight by at least a factor of 2.

Keep your head in the sand if you want

[Scipio2009]

Wilder isn't anywhere near 40-5-%, especially of a supposed $100 mill take.

On top of all that, stop making excuses by claiming what might happen. We KNOW Wilder was gonna make 10x his biggest payday simply fighting Whyte (far better than every opponent he has faced thus far). We also KNOW he would have then made A LOT more than the Whyte fight fighting AJ next.

Now Wilder is going to become even more irrelevant but AJ has so many options after Parker. Theres the Pulev match up, then Haye/Fury for HUGE money or Povetkin even.

Wilders belt is already unknown in the US, he'll become a joke without a big fight this year.

Hypotheticals don't work.

Wilder has already had disclosed purses of over $1.5m, and Eddie Hearn wasn't offering $15m to fight Dillian Whyte, so there goes that nonsense.

Beyond that, none of those fights generate even close to what Joshua-Klitschko did, so where's this "HUGE money" really (Tyson Fury is already on record with his ask for 60% of the take and top billing, lol). To go even further, none of the fights pondered approach anywhere near the interest in the US that Joshua-Klitschko did.

Joshua-Klitschko was literally the biggest event likely possible in the UK/EU, and the hard ceiling on that, with all the money in, was likely £30m-£35m ($45m-$50m).

Keep your head in the dirt if you want

[moochi]

That's a lot of $$$ for both.

For Parker (and his promoters), gotta give him huge credit for winning a vacant title at home (many think he lost that) and now getting this huge payday.

[Scipio2009]

Because it's fkin obvious that this fight will sell much more than him vs a fckin unknown.

Cardiff is already sold out, as it was for the Takam fight (no idea if the ticket prices, but let's assume not).

Takam apparently made $1m, while Parker is rumored to be getting $7m. Exchange rates being what they are, you're talking about needing to clear £4.5m more than the Takam fight to cover.

Depending on the breakdown of the take between Matchroom Sport and Sky, you're looking at 400k-500k more PPV buys than what Joshua got with Takam to break even. gtfoh with that nonsense.

[Scipio2009]

AJ is the cash cow. When you have the cash cow, you don't rush to the most dangerous fight. Hearn is one of the smartest promoters in the world. Only an idiot, if they controlled AJ, would have done the Wilder fight in March.

The Parker fight is a safer fight, and gets you another belt, increasing the value of the Wilder fight.

I'm not criticizing Hearn for wanting to stall. Fighting Wilder next would have been a horrible business decision. Hearn is doing exactly what anybody with a brain would do.




Wilder wants the fight as soon as possible, so when the fight does happen, it'll be because Hearn finally wanted it to happen. You'd still have to give credit to both guys for being willing to fight each other, but ultimately it's Hearn taking the biggest risk, so yes he would deserve the most credit.

Kind of a tangent, what do you figure the odds of Wilder-Joshua happening at the end of the summer (last Saturday of August) 2018?

Maybe it was done by necessity, but I think Floyd/Conor may have stumbled onto something that could become a regular stage for major fights/spectacles for the general fan.

[b d w]

I never said the article said 35%. 30-35% is the number Higgins gave.

From what I understand out of that camp they didn't quite get the 35% they were after but they got more than 30% Hearn was offering at one stage, so I would guess they probably ended up splitting the difference and Parker will be getting around 32/33% of the whole pot. The key to this is the 'whole pot' part. Eddie Hearn's preference was to give them a flat fee which they turned down straight away. So, that being the case I would suggest that the figures supplied in this article are probably a 'guesstimation' and not something posters in this thread should get too wound up about.

I must say for a small outfit with a barely known fighter they really negotiated Hearn into the ground on this one. Joshua is a HUGE name and realistically could've fought anyone yet due to their amateur shenanigans and constant callouts they managed to get under AJ's skin enough that he basically demanded this fight.

Throw in the rematch split which sits at 55/45 in Parker's favour and should he pull the upset he would be able to retire should he lose the rematch.

[N/A]

So what is your point?

My point is that you can't just look at what's filed with the commission and assume that's what Wilder is really getting paid.

[N/A]

Kind of a tangent, what do you figure the odds of Wilder-Joshua happening at the end of the summer (last Saturday of August) 2018?

Man, Hearn sticking Povetkin on the undercard makes it REALLY hard for me to believe that Hearn has any intention of AJ-Wilder this Summer. It's really going to come down to the public pressure. If AJ & Wilder both win their march fights in spectacular fashion and the world is just begging for the fight, maybe Hearn will change course, but I doubt it. November or December of 2018 seems more likely and win or lose, I think it'll be a two fight deal and they'll fight an immediate rematch 6-8 months later.

The biggest obstacle to AJ vs. Wilder is a scenario where HBO is so desperate to land AJ, that they give Hearn 12 dates a year. If HBO is willing to go all in on Hearn, it's not really something SHO can match and HBO would love to stop AJ-Wilder from happening if at all possible.

[_Maxi]

My point is that you can't just look at what's filed with the commission and assume that's what Wilder is really getting paid.

I don't care if someone is willing to lose money on him.

How much is he generating in gates and TV revenue?

Why isn't he on PPV? because he can't sell PPV.