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

[R_Walken]

Lewis is calling it how he sees it, without bias. Sport needs more people sharing these sorts of views.

Watch all the AJ fanboys start attacking him.

Agree 100%

Lewis is jealous though.

[hugh grant]

Wilder doesn't deserve 40% but if that is what it takes to make fight in ok with that.
I don't think wilder deserves 40% because he's had 40 fights or so and only 2 opponents of any note.

[McNulty]

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

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

[uppercut510]

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.

[New England]

[QUOTE=FeFist;18908962]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.

[5000boxing]

Whatever it takes to make the fight! I don't care if its 50/50.. who cares really just the wanna be promoters/ Broke AJ fans. Worrying about anothers mans money. No one cares 90/10.. I just want to see Wilder destroy AJ. So we can close the mouths of the entire AJ NATION!!

I always ride with my countrymen.. but after the fight.. if AJ fights like a warrior.. I will be a fan again.

Once the war is over... I may even offer my U.K friends a smoke and a pancake.. cigar and a waffle.. bong and a blintz, pipe and a creme..?? No?? Well then, there ish no pleasing you! Lol.

[Butch.McRae]

Whatever it takes to make the fight! I don't care if its 50/50.. who cares really just the wanna be promoters/ Broke AJ fans. Worrying about anothers mans money. No one cares 90/10.. I just want to see Wilder destroy AJ. So we can close the mouths of the entire AJ NATION!!

I always ride with my countrymen.. but after the fight.. if AJ fights like a warrior.. I will be a fan again.

Haha @ "Broke AJ fans"

[Gbenopix]

Says a man who is Wilder's friend

[LM17]

Yes Lennox AJ should be paying Wilder out of his own pocket. Rubbish.....Wilder makes 1.5million per fight and brings in 8k crowds. Too many punches to the head sir.

[Jab jab boom]

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?

you ever bought something and returned it after analyzing things further? Based on the money this fight is guaranteed to generate, taking 15 mil is essentially agreeing to an 80-20 split at best. Whether he said yes at first or not doesn't change the fact that it's a bad deal for him. What's so difficult to understand?