Comments Thread For: Arum: We Don't Need WBC To Dictate Wilder-Fury Rematch Purses

[Scipio2009]

You were offered a life changing amount of money and an opportunity to be undisputed but ‘ till this day’ you didn’t want it. You thought you were slick with all this baby oil talk.

Wilder vs Charles Martin May 24th 2019 on the Disney channel PPV.... guaranteed purse $460,000

Fair value is still fair value, regardless of your "life changing money" (Wilder has been on $1m+ purses since he fought Stiverne for the title, and lives in Alabama; he's pretty much good moneywise already); $15m, on a fight that likely does $45m+ staged in the UK isn't fair value.

[Scipio2009]

“[The purse bid] doesn’t factor into it at all,” Arum told BoxingScene.com. “The WBC wants the fight to happen. Good luck to them. But we don’t need them to tell us how the purses should be. That’ll come with reasonable negotiations.”

Arum also emphasized that an immediate rematch of their dubious draw December 1 in Los Angeles doesn’t necessarily need to take place May 18. A deal nearly was finalized late last week for Fury (27-0-1, 19 KOs) and Wilder (40-0-1, 39 KOs) to fight again for Wilder’s WBC heavyweight championship May 18 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

“Well, there’s no magic in May 18th,” Arum said. “That’s just one day of the year. When it comes time to pick a date for the fight, as long as the fight happens, what difference does it make if it’s in June? Or where it is. I mean, obviously, Las Vegas would be a good place for it and there are other good places for it. But, I mean, that’s to be decided when the time comes.”

What I say Arum was going to make Fury pull out the purse bid. Not only did he all but confirm that will happen he is also doesn't care about the fight date and is now saying it shouldn't even happen in Brooklyn throwing out Las Vegas. Basically ripping up every point both sides had already agreed on. You don't sign with Arum and ESPN in the 11th hour of a deal that is almost done if you want to fight Wilder next. He signed with Arum because the money was too good to turn down knowing it killed the Wilder Rematch for now and maybe for good. As a fan this sucks hearing Arum p isss all over a fight fans were juiced up to see making it crystal clear that fight is DEAD.

Arum has a flop of a PPV already in hand for April, and ESPN isn't going to turn around to then run another PPV for May (they likely wouldn't do June either, but Arum only really wants the fight off of the May date to start with). You add that it's now clear that Arum is also fishing for the lion's share of the take and control of the event, and the rematch is dead as a doorknob.

[Ray*]

When two people wants a fight then it’s easy to make - Frank Warren before Fury was signed to the ESPN deal.

[Noelanthony]

Fair value is still fair value, regardless of your "life changing money" (Wilder has been on $1m+ purses since he fought Stiverne for the title, and lives in Alabama; he's pretty much good moneywise already); $15m, on a fight that likely does $45m+ staged in the UK isn't fair value.

No I’m not endorsing the 15 million offer I agree , it was low. I’m simply talking about all the offers made after the 1st December

[PapaBricks]

For the love of God.
I wish Eddie Hearn and Bob Arum would stay out of the media.

[uppercut510]

I wonder if their will be thousands of threads calling fury a Duck????????????? NOPE let this had been wilder tho lol

[alexjust]

Titles mean nothing when negotiating a split. It all comes down to how much money you generate and what your worth is. Titles don't even come into it.

But if the champ in your mind gets the bigger slice, then Fury should get more money against Wilder. Only American corruption disputes the truth. Everyone else knows Fury won and is the real WBC champ, regardless of how many of you morons try to claim otherwise.

Hmmm...where did I claim otherwise? No, seriously, show me. Are you groundlessly insulting me just because you are 14 or is this just a hysterical reaction defending your idol? Jeez, man, you are like Bieber fan

[Scipio2009]

Should Liam Smith have been the A side against Canelo because he was champ? Should Victor Ortiz have been A side against Mayweather because he was champ? Exactly. No they shouldn't.

Neither was the A side in the first fight between Fury and Wilder. It should have been 50/50 split. But with Fury beating Wilder and being the real WBC champ, it should be split 60/40 Fury's way. Any other deal doesn't make sense. Unless you're unhinged in the head that is.

^^^ lol at this ****boy **** right here.

[Scipio2009]

No I’m not endorsing the 15 million offer I agree , it was low. I’m simply talking about all the offers made after the 1st December

Those offers were basically BS, since both camps, almost immediately, made it clear that they were pursuing the rematch (without even side mention of Top Rank angling in on anything), information that Hearn knew too.

Once Wilder-Fury did what it did, outside of calling Wilder on his 50/50 ask after Hearn ****ed him on the first negotiation, there's nothing that Hearn could've offered to derail a rematch of a fight that the public was now clamoring for.

[Sid-Knee]

^^^ lol at this ****boy **** right here.

No, it's called having sense. I know that's a difficult concept for you. Don't worry about it.