Comments Thread For: Lennox Lewis: Wilder Deserves 60-40 Split for Joshua Fight

[jas]

Parker got over 30%

And wilder way bigger star

[thack]

Lennox knows his stuff and is spot on

[boliodogs]

He can have his opinion but he has nothing to do with the fight and no say in what the fighters get. Only team Wilder and team AJ will come to terms or not. I doubt team AJ will ever agree to give Wilder 40%. Wilder can yell and scream all he wants and call them names and say it's all their fault. Aj doesn't need to fight Wilder because he makes huge money fighting any contender. Unless Wilder changes his mind and accepts their offer I doubt they will ever fight. AJ is the A side. He is in the driver's seat and holds all the cards. Wilder does have a belt he wants but with the kind of money he makes every fight he can live nicely without it.

[Sid-Knee]

I love Lennox and all, he's my favourite fighter in history, but he does seem to have a jealousy thing going on where Joshua is concerned. Lennox got nowhere near to the support Joshua does so I think that's making Lennox think the way he does. I've seen him make comments towards Joshua a few times now that have made me scratch my head.

Deontay is a scrub. He brings no money, just a title. He should get no more than 30% and be thankful for it. He gets paid 1.5 mill a fight so he should be biting Joshua's hand off with the money on offer for him. But you know Deontay, he won't fight unless he gets a huge retirement cheque, even though he said it wasn't about the money. Bull****. Just fight you fraud.

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In before all the còck sucking cheerleaders dust off their pom poms.

Lennox speaking the truth, one of their own owning Hearn and AJ.

Wilder brings absolutely no money to the table, so no, he doesn't deserve 40%. That's insane. But it's not a surprise coming from a piece of filth like you.

[N/A]

Who gives a **** what people think the split should be.

Wilder PUBLICALLY ACCEPTED a flat fee of $15m. You don't accept a purse if you are not happy with it.

Did he change his mind when the contract came through the post or what?

he accepted 15 million if the fight was next to call hearns bluff because he believed hearn wouldnt do the fight next.

turns out he was right because when the contract came through, it didnt say the fight would be next.

so now that he proved hearn was lying, hes back to publicly demanding 50/50, which means hed really accept 60/40.

[N/A]

Wilder has no demands until he can fill an arena

he routinely fills barclays center more than anybody else. how many tickets did hearn sell there?

[Sid-Knee]

this is fair, and if they wanted the fight they would have offered a decent percentage and not all this flat fee bullsht and roadblocks, 60/40 in the uk is fair. hearn will control the refs and the judges as he stated in his contract, they should also allow showtime to be apart of it all but hearn to damn greedy. there should also be a rematch clause for both of them and not just for aj if he loses. who ever wins should be the A side in the rematch as well.... how you so called fans agree with what hearn is doing is beyond me.

So 40% to Wilder even though he brings no money to the table.

There should be a rematch clause if he loses even though it's never been done before for a B side.

And if he wins, he should get most of the money in the rematch even though such a contract has ever been made by a big A side.

And you think this is fair? **** off you deluded little drip, no it's not. If this was the other way round you wouldn't support it. You're a biased little hypocrite with nothing of worth to say. Go away.

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What's so difficult to understand is that Wilder accepted $15m and asked for a contract. Why ask for a contract if you aren't willing to sign it even though it has the terms you agreed to?

the contract didnt have the agreed terms.

the agreed terms were the fight being NEXT. the contract didnt reflect that.

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[QUOTE=New England;18909036]

No he doesn't. Wilder is not a draw and his resume is garbage... so a little bit worse than Joshua's.

He deserves 30%.[/a]



if he wasn't a draw the fight wouldn't be bigger here, and it is. the 50 million dollar guarantee with upside was based on the fight being in las vegas and on american PPV. just for some context as i get that most of the british don't understand this, joshua vs klitshcko did less than hopkins - calzaghe did at the gate. really! the economy of california alone is bigger than the entirety of england. really! look up the GDP of that state and look up the GDP of england.

eddie and his father have admitted this. the fight is bigger here. the rematch will surely be here. eddie turned down an amount that would make his offer the equivalent of a 10-15% split on the purse. their primary reasoning for taking less money was that they wanted the fight in england, where it generates less! again, look it up, this is all veyr well established fact.

The guarantee was only made to Joshua, not Wilder. And that's down to his pulling power which Deontay doesn't have.

You're living in cloud coo coo land if you think he's worth 40%. He isn't. He never has been and he never will be.

You know the contract Wilder wants is a load of nonsense. I mean, which B side fighter in history made 15 mill or more? Which B side fighter had a rematch clause if they lose?