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Why is Joshua who is making $20-30 million a fight, which is probably on average about half of a Floyd pay day post De La Hoya, expected to overpay fighters by these ridiculous amounts. He just had to pay Parker, £8 million, $11 million!!!
To put that into perspective, against Floyd; Mosley, and Marquez, made less than that, both STARS, champions, multiple ppv appearances. In a fight where the pot for the fighters was probably around $70-80 million on a bad day.
The hypocrisy and double standards are ridiculous.
I hear people talking about %, without using any historical context. Now don't get me wrong, I don't think Wilder should be taking the flat offer, but I also dont think that number is a million miles away from where a fair % would end up. $15 million would be somewhere around that 30-35% mark, and quite frankly that is ridiculous overpaying if you consider the above, and the fact that both Parker and Wilder are not draws.
Floyd was paying stars - actual STARS, certified HOFers, 10% of the purse in some cases, but they were happy because of the opportunity and the life changing money.
When these guys were taking these purses, I didn't hear anyone complaining then, I didn't hear anything about low ball offers.
This is the last I'm going to talk about this, but needed to put it out there.
To put that into perspective, against Floyd; Mosley, and Marquez, made less than that, both STARS, champions, multiple ppv appearances. In a fight where the pot for the fighters was probably around $70-80 million on a bad day.
The hypocrisy and double standards are ridiculous.
I hear people talking about %, without using any historical context. Now don't get me wrong, I don't think Wilder should be taking the flat offer, but I also dont think that number is a million miles away from where a fair % would end up. $15 million would be somewhere around that 30-35% mark, and quite frankly that is ridiculous overpaying if you consider the above, and the fact that both Parker and Wilder are not draws.
Floyd was paying stars - actual STARS, certified HOFers, 10% of the purse in some cases, but they were happy because of the opportunity and the life changing money.
When these guys were taking these purses, I didn't hear anyone complaining then, I didn't hear anything about low ball offers.
This is the last I'm going to talk about this, but needed to put it out there.
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