Comments Thread For: Hearn: Boxers' Purses Completely Out Of Control; Part My Fault, DAZN's Fault

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Eddie Hearn accepts partial responsibility for the purse surge in boxing over the past two years. The British promoter also anticipates that trend will end while operating in a global economy damaged badly by the COVID-19 pandemic. Hearn's Matchroom Boxing USA and DAZN, one of Matchroom's broadcast partners, reportedly committed an approximate $10 million in purses to Mikey Garcia ($7 million) and Jessie Vargas ($3 million) for the last pre-pandemic main event DAZN streamed February 29 from Frisco, Texas.
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[povalles77]

This isn't basketball. Baseball. It's boxing, where athletes get seriously injured. They are worth more than they get. Even undercard fighters should make more, percentage of ticket sales

[Bunch Pag]

The fighters deserve big rewards for putting there lives and livelihood at risk.

It's the promoters who should be getting paid far less...

[Fanofreason]

Or Dazn is out of money and Eddie is acting like they are pulling back purses. Bye bye Dead Zone

[Mammoth]

Yeah, that's true. I'm a Jacobs fan but 15 million? Makes no sense.

[Elpatron2]

Haa noo when the big
showdown went down between money vs mcdonals you talkin bout 9 figures each yet ,yet (wats the biggest purse mix martial arts get a mill) does not make noo freaking sense,

[bballchump11]

This isn't basketball. Baseball. It's boxing, where athletes get seriously injured. They are worth more than they get. Even undercard fighters should make more, percentage of ticket sales

They aren't worth so much that they are getting paid more than the event is even generating.

[Jab jab boom]

Joshua, Canelo, Ggg, Jacobs, are all grossly overpaid by DAZN.

[Mister Wolf]

Should have though about this before you paid Garcia 7 million to fight Vargas. I remember when the NFL got out of control like this and they had to introduce a rookie salary cap.

[Califire209]

All the DAZN Fighters are Gonna flee back to Al Haymon and Bob arum