Kovalev was lowballed. Jacobs got $10 mil to fight Canelo.

[R-Hand Southpaw]

I like your argument but this is a huge risk Canelo is taking and he shouldn’t have to cuadruple Sergeys highest purse to get him to take a fight where the only risk is of him getting slapped a bit and schooled. They have to be reasonable here Canelo is taking all the risk and on top of that they gotta break the bank?

What risk is Canelo taking if the fight isnt at the 175lb limit? Also if there is a rehydration clause?

If there are so many "risks" then someone would say just dont do it then.

Canelo has a chin and Kovalev probably doesnt hit much harder than GGG. So its favorable for him from the get go.

But again.

Consider it goes 12 all Canelo has to do is keep it close enough and he will win on the cards? If Mikey could ****ing do it then money that Canelo can surivive 12.

What risk are we talking about here? Theres less risk than Mikey moving to 147 considering that Canelo is better than Mikey and Spence is better than Kovalev?

Plus. Why these guys always trying to cherry pick champs near the end of their career for real.

[Eff Pandas]

Who offers this money? Golden Boy or DAZN? GB is always on some bullshyt but if it's DAZN, I think DAZN may be be attempting to stop the bleeding. They spent way too much. Esp on Canelo.

DAZN gives it to GBP who gives it to Canelo & his opponent I'd imagine.

And I gotta figure DAZN is paying GBP for Canelo fights by how appealing said fight is or how much they want or don't want a fight.

Thats likely why this is a lowball offer. Cuz they are gonna need to lowball Kovalev or Canelo is gonna need to take a cut. Or they are gonna have to fight someone DAZN wants them to fight.

DAZN has leverage here & it'd be ****** of them not to use it. They need to convert notable fights into subs & Canelo vs GGG III is one of the biggest fights to make in all of boxing right now & is gonna help DAZN acquire subs more than Canelo vs Kovalev will.

[Motorcity Cobra]

I suspect this is DAZN's way of controling who Canelo can fight. Cuz they got SOME leverage lets be f#cking serious here.

DAZN will give x for Kov, but will give x + y for a guy like Jacobs or GGG who they wanna see Canelo fight & who they think has greater appeal for DAZN the product to reach more subs.

Hmmm. I didn't think of it that way

[bballchump11]

You'll have to pay more to get Kovalev to leave his network

[Motorcity Cobra]

I like your argument but this is a huge risk Canelo is taking and he shouldn’t have to cuadruple Sergeys highest purse to get him to take a fight where the only risk is of him getting slapped a bit and schooled. They have to be reasonable here Canelo is taking all the risk and on top of that they gotta break the bank?

Didn't Kovalev complain about lowballs in his fights with Ward? They need a proper translator for Sergey and let him know that DAZN is referring to money

If Kovalev thinks that's a low-ball then wait till Haymon or another promoter makes him an offer. Then he truly know what a low ball offer is.

We don't know what he was offered so we can't say but when you're dancing with the big star, it's expected that you should get paid. Even Robert Guerrero made millions when he fought Floyd.

Who offers this money? Golden Boy or DAZN? GB is always on some bullshyt but if it's DAZN, I think DAZN may be be attempting to stop the bleeding. They spent way too much. Esp on Canelo.

Jacobs got paid about how much he'd get paid with PPV upside. So what happens the next time they want a non-DAZN guy to fight Canelo? They gotta pay them the equivalent of what he'd make on a PPV.

Liam Smith probably made more with the PPV upside than what Kovalev was offered. That is a problem without PPV upside.

[DuckAdonis]

Yup he was

People pretending Canelo Vs anyone but GGG would be bigger than Canelo Vs Kov are being dumb

[DaNeutral.]

Who else is offering Kovalev that type of money? Not his own people, Not Arum or Haymon. Lowball? Im seeing the same morons calling this a lowball that called 100 million a lowball and 7 for Luis Ortiz a lowball. But this is actually a DAZN hate thread, yet another one from our number 1 DAZN hater.

Once upon a time a fighter or his team or his fans would say "That is a lowball because we could get more than that fighting............ But now its just a lowball even though there is nothing to say about it other than pointing out what other fighters have got. That was other fighters not Kovalev.

So its the most he has ever had, its more than anybody else out there is going to give him for any other fight but its a lowball.

[bigdunny1]

Jacobs got paid about how much he'd get paid with PPV upside. So what happens the next time they want a non-DAZN guy to fight Canelo? They gotta pay them the equivalent of what he'd make on a PPV.

Liam Smith probably made more with the PPV upside than what Kovalev was offered. That is a problem without PPV upside.

Liam Smith didn't get PPV upside I've never seen anyone report that he did. So he got a flat fee to come in and fight canelo. Just like most of the guys Floyd fought on his huge deal with Showtime. They got large flat fees usually worth 2-3X the money anyone else could pay them while Floyd was the only one getting PPV upside. Kovalev is being offered money he can't make anywhere else and his career payday was 2M and that was a PPV fight with Ward when his popularity and stock was at it's peak.

It's simple if Kovalev don't like money he can go fight his mandatory for peanuts which he could very easily lose then unify with one of the guys at 175 and those 2 fights combined probably don't pay him HALF what Canelo just offered him.

[Motorcity Cobra]

Kovalev should be making at least 5x's against Canelo than what he made against Ward. This fight is way more valuable

He made $2 million for 1st Ward fight and I believe more than $2.5 million for rematch. He forewent a guaranteed purse in the rematch, in favor of % of PPVs and live gate from dollar one. Ward took guarantee but didn't make anything from PPV since no profit, & RNS took a bath

— Jake Donován (@JakeNDaBox) July 2, 2019

[Motorcity Cobra]

Who else is offering Kovalev that type of money? Not his own people, Not Arum or Haymon. Lowball? Im seeing the same morons calling this a lowball that called 100 million a lowball and 7 for Luis Ortiz a lowball. But this is actually a DAZN hate thread, yet another one from our number 1 DAZN hater.

Once upon a time a fighter or his team or his fans would say "That is a lowball because we could get more than that fighting............ But now its just a lowball even though there is nothing to say about it other than pointing out what other fighters have got. That was other fighters not Kovalev.

So its the most he has ever had, its more than anybody else out there is going to give him for any other fight but its a lowball.

Kovalev should be making at least 5x's against Canelo than what he made against Ward. This fight is way more valuable

He made $2 million for 1st Ward fight and I believe more than $2.5 million for rematch. He forewent a guaranteed purse in the rematch, in favor of % of PPVs and live gate from dollar one. Ward took guarantee but didn't make anything from PPV since no profit, & RNS took a bath

— Jake Donován (@JakeNDaBox) July 2, 2019