Comments Thread For: Wilder Manager: Too Much at Stake, These Fights Will Happen

[kafkod]

Why the **** would BT Sport pay $50m for a fight that they'd get maybe $20m for at 3am?

You keep dancing and tripping over your ****ing feet.

Nobody said that BT were paying the whole fckn $50million!

[LacedUp]

75000 units @$75/$65 per unit gets you over $5.5m; rough cuts and all that, you're talking about an extra $2.7m to split up (with still no count for the PPVs that Showtime sold directly to the consumer online).

An extra $3m to split up, on top of the $4m guaranteed that was covered, for a camp that is supposed to be 'Joe Blow Heavyweight that no American knows' with no money earned? Yeah, that's pretty significant.

Significant enough to move from $15m as recently as December 2018 to now being offered $40m for the same fight now.

It's not significant at all.

250k was the breakeven point. Each fighter was guaranteed 4mil (Wilder) and 3mil (Fury, no UK money).

So the 75000 buys were split between showtime, Fury and Wilder.

Maybe a mil or two a piece at best.

WOW, significant difference

So let's for the sake of it say Wilder made 8 million, which is probably way too much.

That's less than a quarter of what AJ will make in his next fight, a routine defense.

Let that sink in.