Errol Spence vs Shawn Porter Unification Bout Being "Pegged" For September

[Bmore18]

This actually made my day when I see this tweet a few minutes ago.

Coppinger has been pretty quiet on Twitter last couple weeks. Bringing the news today

[KTFOKING]

Is this a ~$20M fight you think?

Edit: Well doing the math it requires 533k PPV buys (@ $75 a pop) to break even if it was so maybe not off base by much. And thats assuming the distributor takes 50% which I don't think is necessarily true anymore between leverage on boxings side becoming better with offering cord cutting options to buy the PPV where they are taking more if not the whole pie.

You're talking this fight or the Garcia one? I agree, I don't think there is a 50/50 split anymore, and case in point, DirecTV didn't start showing promos for the fight until a couple days before the fight. Usually they do it far earlier to promote the fight. Also, you have to think quite a bit of purchases came through the Fox Go App which for goes the cable distributors. But how I got my numbers of it generating around 20M:

380,000 *75 = 28,500,000/2 = 14,250,000 *.90 = 12,825,000
Live gate 4-5M
International revenue plus sponsorship money ~5-7M

And obviously you pay UC fighters and what not, but Spence also sold his own merchandise at the fight but I don't know how to account for that. But still, a fair guess that he came away with 10 or so million for the fight.

Do I think the Porter fight is at that level? I do not.

[Pigeons]

Spence is gonna peg Porter.

[The Big Dunn]

You have to be kidding me. This fight could have been made a long time ago. It was Porter who was saying Spence wasn't on his radar. Now they see Spence as the risk finally being worth the reward after seeing the PPV buys the Garcia fight did.

This. The guys who make money will keep avoiding him until they have to. The guys who don’t will now jump to get a fight with him to get that ppv loot.

Let’s hope the winner of manny/Thurman doesn’t run from him for too long.

[Bmore18]

This. The guys who make money will keep avoiding him until they have to. The guys who don’t will now jump to get a fight with him to get that ppv loot.

Let’s hope the winner of manny/Thurman doesn’t run from him for too long.

I think the winner of Manny/Thurman will fight and interim fight and Spence/Porter winner will fight interim before they unify (at least one vs Garcia). Just my prediction, but that's how I unfortunately see it happening

[pillowfists98]

Porter will give Spence a real test. Should be a great fight!

[Eff Pandas]

You're talking this fight or the Garcia one?

Yea this fight.

I agree, I don't think there is a 50/50 split anymore, and case in point, DirecTV didn't start showing promos for the fight until a couple days before the fight. Usually they do it far earlier to promote the fight.

Interesting. What's the rumored cut distributors get now in these sorta situations? If you've heard of one.

I heard this was becoming more of a thing, but haven't heard anything beyond massive speculation on what the new cut could end up being.

Also, you have to think quite a bit of purchases came through the Fox Go App which for goes the cable distributors. But how I got my numbers of it generating around 20M:

380,000 *75 = 28,500,000/2 = 14,250,000 *.90 = 12,825,000
Live gate 4-5M
International revenue plus sponsorship money ~5-7M

Fair play. The international revenue & sponsorship money feels a lil high-ish to me doe. But with the Fox App situation & the likely more favorable cut from distributors it probably all evens out anyway.

Do I think the Porter fight is at that level? I do not.

In regards to how much they are getting paid?

Idk man. With how Haymon operates you get what you can get after you pay the people you gotta pay.

I always wonder exactly how much Fox would be taking of the PPV revenue & how much the flat fee the promoter would be paid. The distributor we have info of, in the past anyway. And I assume its all mostly going to the fighters from there & Haymon takes his % from that.

So if you can sell you can get paid $10Mish or w/e. Thats the good part about PPV which is why I was surprised Canelo flipped over to DAZN (although I've kinda always thought he hated selling fights so a more consistent guaranteed payment structure might be better/less stressful for him) & why I think Joshua is short selling himself if he doesn't attempt to become a US PPV draw. The upside is so f#cking up with PPV still.

[jas]

probably late in the year because they do not want it too close to the thurman pac ppv in july

[SkillspayBills]

All parties involved want the fight so let's make it happen. Winner faces the winner of Pac-Thurman.

[Eff Pandas]

You have to be kidding me. This fight could have been made a long time ago. It was Porter who was saying Spence wasn't on his radar. Now they see Spence as the risk finally being worth the reward after seeing the PPV buys the Garcia fight did.

This like a mfer. Spence been calling these dudes out since before he was in the top ten just like Floyd had called out Oscar & SSM when he was still at 130. Mfers forget, mfers new or mfers trolling doe.

That guy is just a bad troll. He's the reason the ignore button exists.