Would Breazeale be Dumb Not to go to Purse Bid?

**Fabes88** · 03-06-2019, 12:15 PM

No because then he’d miss out on his 29 mil haymon secret cheque

**Robbie Barrett** · 03-06-2019, 12:18 PM

They won't pay that much for that fight. They were only going to pay Wilder that to get Wilder to sign a multi fight deal.

**Lopez_Boxing** · 03-06-2019, 12:48 PM

breazeale is going to ko wilder. Mark it down

**DJrabit** · 03-06-2019, 02:38 PM

This makes no sense they have the same promoter and Wilder please don’t make this fight. Breazele is not even top 10 HW. Wilder step up your competition.

**RoyJonesJrp4pno1** · 03-06-2019, 03:19 PM

Breazeale hates Wilder so he could do it just to phuck with Wilder.

**Mirror Universe** · 03-06-2019, 03:22 PM

Originally posted by Robbie Barrett

They won't pay that much for that fight. They were only going to pay Wilder that to get Wilder to sign a multi fight deal.

Good point. Wilder vs. Breazeale would be worth a lot to DAZN or ESPN if it meant Wilder was signing a longer deal with them, but as a single no strings attached fight, I don't see DAZN or ESPN bidding a ton to get the fight.

**Scipio2009** · 03-06-2019, 03:22 PM

Originally posted by Stinger1

Given it's likely Wilder will knock him out, would Breazeale dumb not to go to purse bid on for his final big payday? Even if Showtime put this on PPV, at 70/30 split how much are Showtime and Al really going to guarantee him? If Hearn is prepared to pay Wilder $15m to fight Breazeale, I'm sure he must be calculating he would have to pay Breazeale $6m based on the WBC mandatory purse split. Why not just let it go to purse bid and see if Top Rank do something crazy as well?

Because, to be crass, Eddie Hearn is full of ****.

For a guy allegedly backed with a billion dollars over 8 years to deliver 16 shows a year for DAZN, Eddie Hearn should almost literally never lose a purse bid on one of his fights to anyone, yet he's consistently lost bids that weren't all that outlandish to start with.

Eddie can say what he wants to the media, when rubber hits the road, do you honestly think that he'd pay $15m to host Wilder-Breazeale with nothing else attached to it? Would ESPN pay anywhere near that, with no further obligation on an ESPN-carried Wilder-Fury 2? I doubt it on both counts, tbh.

So there's the stage for the dance; Haymon works for both camps, he can tell both guys what Showtime and ITV are willing to pay, Lou DiBella and Tom Brown can tell both camps what they can expect to draw on the live event, and Wilder can offer to then split that package with Breazeale 80/20 or choose to gamble that ESPN or DAZN will put up enough of a bid for a truly one-off fight on their platform to make 25% of said bid worth more than 20% of the likely package on offer.

Eddie Hearn shorted Dillian Whyte to the point that they had to abandon Wembley and fight for the Russian oligarch's fee to cover Joshua, all after 2 years of talking that "boxing world is centered in the US" mess.

Haymon has guided Breazeale since he turned pro after the Olympics, just as he's guided Wilder since after the Olympics; the deal, however it comes out, will be fair.

Hearn has no such credibility at this level.

**KTFOKING** · 03-06-2019, 03:25 PM

Originally posted by DJrabit

This makes no sense they have the same promoter and Wilder please don�t make this fight. Breazele is not even top 10 HW. Wilder step up your competition.

LOL, don't fight Breazeale and be stripped of the title? Now, why in the hell would he do that?

And step up his competition? He just fought Fury and was ready to do it again until..................

**sicko** · 03-06-2019, 03:32 PM

NOPE, both will be taken care of very well for this fight so Purse Bid won't be needed

I get a good laugh at how not long ago fans as well as other promoters (Bob Arum, Eddie Hearn) was crying about how "PBC FIGHTERS ARE OVERPAID" to now thinking they're not being paid well

Would Breazeale be Dumb Not to go to Purse Bid?