Comments Thread For: Whyte, Ruiz Feud Online Over Financial Terms For Actual Fight

[Squared.Circle]

It’s funny seeing people jump on Whyte like $4m isn’t more than he ever got before AJ, and will ever get again lol

[Oshio]

$4m is a payday for Ruiz. That will be his second payday after Joshua. No other banner will give him that money

[Corelone]

Ruiz is ducking Whyte? Ruiz got in with AJ twice, once on short notice and again in a made for AJ arena. Looks like he's more scared of Hearn and his B'S contracts, small print and double dealing, than Whyte. If Andy wins, he has to be a Hearn puppet.

[skinnystev]

don't hold your breath on ruiz he hasn't spent one minute in the gym since his loss to joshua

[pollywog]

Offer Oilskin Parker 5mil to rematch Whyte in the UK and 4mil if in NZ.

No smack talking back n forth on tweetface necessary.

Parker would love the opportunity to put whyte in his place.

[DaNeutral.]

Why is all this such a thing anyway? Whyte made Ruiz an offer but a Ruiz dont want it.

Fair enough there are others that seem willing to face Whyte and Ruiz doesn't seem to want to commit to anybody right now and will want a soft touch when he does. He will of had to lose a good bit of weight and will be working under a new training team. He feels like he needs a tune up.

[alexjust]

Ruiz needs to understand that if he fights somebody with a resume and loses he can forget about even $2m purses. $4m seems like a good deal and now Eddie wants to raise to $5m? Unless something else in the contracts, which is a problem, turning down $5m is a straight duck. And for God's sake, its not like Whyte offers to fight in 3 weeks, Andy already had 5 months to get himself in shape and will have at least another 5-6, since Whyte needs to fight Povetkin first. But even without Povetkin Ruiz would have had 8-9 months period to work on himself. How's that not enough?

[Corelone]

I don't thinkWhyte has ever had a million dollar payday. Much less multi million. Hearn got him for under a million for Joshua. The only way Hearn pays Ruiz 4 mil is options. He's not about to over pay to get his guy beat without insurance.

[Corelone]

Doesn't Whyte question why Hearn never offered him this type of money? How Hearn is under cutting him in public? Hearn didn't have to say anything, but he took Andy's side?

[Guest]

If Whyte is a tune-up fight according to you then $4 million would be a good amount for that.

Circumstances regarding paydays are very much relevant so why discount them? At his high-water mark Ruiz made approximately $13 million but he had belts and was fighting an opponent he beat who generates massive amounts of revenue. In that match, he came in very heavy and looked lethargic and disinterested. He loses by wide decision and fires his trainer. With the current situation he deserves to be paid a similar purse to $13 million? In order for that to happen, Ruiz needs to be relevant again.

For the record, I'm neither an AJ nor Whyte fan. I pulled for Ruiz against AJ and would root for him against Whyte. In fact, I think if Ruiz came in shape and motivated against Whyte, he'd probably win.

I think it's human nature really. You make 100k to do something, then somebody offers you 25k later to do the same thing. Then people tell you that's good money.
I think you are gonna naturally set your worth higher like Ruiz did.
He is still sitting on some cash I would bet, so figures he can negotiate.