Comments Thread For: Hearn: If AJ Wins in Saudi Arabia, It Opens Up a Whole New World

[Laligalaliga]

The champ isn't going to be there if Eddie doesn't give him more money. He can have all the shame press conferences he want.

Fairy tale of the highest order. Non the less, the SA guys are investing heavily on this, am also of the opinion that Eddie should be flexible and give the champ a couple of Mil. He has work very hard to get to this position, something Ortiz was afraid to do. He probably would have been the guy making his first couple Mil.
Be that as it may, the champ doesn't have a choice but to fly to SA.
No debate.

[Laligalaliga]

No. Most fans will be watching CFB championships that day

Who cares?

[andocom]

Hearn is the only guy I know who can break sanction rules with a clause and the organisations that write the rules don't complain. The purse split is pre set by the sanctioning body. Hearn has cut rate, under the table, side dealed his way around paying anybody fair.

You do realise Joshua isn't Ruiz's mandatory, this isn't a fight ordered by a sanctioning body right, surely you do understand that?

Sanctioning bodies don't set split percentages on voluntaries, they aren't ordering the fight so they have no say in what each fighter gets paid, if fighters agree to splits or flat fees thats on them.

Let me explain grossly unfair and unconscionable. When a contract favors one side and the other is at extreme disadvantage. Andy can't pick the venue, he can't get the champions share of the money, and he never signed to expand Hearns empire. Fairness has a lot to do with it. When is Hearn going to treat Andy fair?

An unconscionable contract has a specific legal meaning, just because you don't think its fair that doesn't make it unconscionable or actionable in a legal sense. Now if Hearn literally held a gun to Ruiz head and said sign the contract it would be different.

You take a contract for a boxing match where Ruiz was paid $5M (20 times his previous highest pay day) with a rematch clause to for $9M to any judge in the world and claim its unconscionable because of the amounts of money and you will be laughed out of court 10 times out of 10.

Ruiz has advisers & management, he signed the contract knowing full well the conditions, he went from rags to riches and a HW champion, I don't understand why people are so upset with this.

But yeah, at least understand the difference between mandated and voluntaries for a start.

[Grimgash]

If it's in SA at least I'll steam it and watch... it's the least I can do... literally.