Comments Thread for: Tyson Fury signs ESPN fight deal worth reported £80m

[bigdunny1]

Arum overpaid to kill the Fury/Wilder rematch. Sucks for fans but apparently the money was too good for Fury to turn down.

[SHOOTALLCLOWNS]

You aren’t filling me with confidence with your examples of TR fighters fighting on Sho my man

Arum doesn’t like his major stars playing with anyone else. Always been that way. Fury, at approx $20mill a fight, is now one of his major stars.

At the very least you have to acknowledge this makes the Wilder fight much more difficult to make.

its not exclusive to arum. when's the last time you've seen a showtime/pbc fighter on a rival network?

[SHOOTALLCLOWNS]

Arum doesn't like his major stars playing with others, but Arum also has the following Heavyweights: Pulev, Jennings and Rivas.

Gonna need to do some cross promotional thing for his 5 fights considering he doesn't even have 5 fighters.

doesn't arum still promote parker? what about andy ruiz? with those two that's five.

[SHOOTALLCLOWNS]

Yeah in 2014 or whatever when he was a 1-1 prospect.

Has he been on Showtime since the TR/ESPN deal started?

arum allowed one of his young up and coming stars oleksandr gzodyk to fight on showtime against chickenson where he won the wbc belt. you forget about that already?

[badnewsbrown]

£80mil for 5 fights? Seems low?

[boliodogs]

That's a lot of money per fight but not nearly as much as Canelo gets per fight.

[_Rexy_]

doesn't arum still promote parker? what about andy ruiz? with those two that's five.

Ruiz left a couple months ago for PBC. He's fighting April 20th (he said on his Instagram) but opponent hasn't been announced yet.

And I haven't seen Parker on the TR website...will check again though.


EDIT - The Parker thing seems murky, like it may have been on a fight by fight basis through Parkers promoters back home?