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

[Dasmius Shinobi]

This FÛÇKING Corona Virus is playing us all. This is a FÛÇKING mess.

These changes is going to change the live of the boxers and promoters alike. I have a feel there are going to be more exchanges between promoters and boxers in a bad way. Hope I am wrong.

[sicko]

Yes...Yes It Is!

Respect to Eddie for being able to admit it but yeah all that needs to come down after this Pandemic from ALL PROMOTIONS DAZN and PBC especially! Fighters should only get big paydays for BIG FIGHTS, Championship Fights, Unification Fights ONLY! Not for soft touches and weak Mandatory's

Stop overpaying guys to jump to DAZN when they're not even a F@cking Draw or anything. Only Canelo and AJ are worth investing big money into the rest should be on a fight to fight bases

[Kezzer]

DAZN's problem is they have a limited number of fighters, and can't get those fighters to fight each other. PBC has a similar problem, but their stable is deeper. DAZN should be able to have Manny vs. Mikey, Devin vs. Kingry, and Andrade vs. GGG in 2020! Those are must-see TV!

Personally I would’ve said dazn was showing the best fights, in fact by some distance. The scheduled fights they had coming up were really impressive too.

One thing you do have to consider though Is a lot of there good fights are British fighters so if your not interested in those then it may or you off a little , bit even without the British fights they were would have still been competitive on the match up fronts.

The big difference between matchroom fights and other promoters is that Eddie usually puts several decent fights on one card so you can look much further down than the headline if that isn’t a great match up. A lot of other promoters have one undercard worth watching at most.

Compare Joshua Ruiz matchcards versus wilder fury as an example.

[Oldskoolg]

It was started by Al Haymon and PBC to corner the American market. In order to take boxing back to the networks he had to attract the talent. Bob and ESPN upped their game. Dazn and Hearn came in and just blew both of them out of the water when talking about undeserved money. 7m for Garcia to take on Vargas kills the $1-2m purses that PBC had during the 2015-2018 era.
The purses need to come down, unless fighter’s are in super fights, defending titles against contenders, unifying, rematch hard fights etc etc. PPVS need to come down in price by half.
Boxing is in a position to really come back strong in the USA, there is an opportunity here

[Oldskoolg]

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

Bingo....it’s miller time

[Oldskoolg]

DAZN's problem is they have a limited number of fighters, and can't get those fighters to fight each other. PBC has a similar problem, but their stable is deeper. DAZN should be able to have Manny vs. Mikey, Devin vs. Kingry, and Andrade vs. GGG in 2020! Those are must-see TV!

Manny is with PBC, you know that. Strange statement

[Oldskoolg]

Some of you are missing the point.

Terence Crawford gets a guaranteed $3 million minimum no matter who he fights.

That's not value for the customer.

Exactly. Guarenteed multi million dollar paydays are a legacy to the self destructive path boxing has taken in the USA. 35m for a tomato can is ridiculous

[Corelone]

Hearn snubs his nose at the Nevada boxing commission, Las Vegas, and puts on Chavez vs Taylor in Arizona. Playing ****** games, instead of getting his boys Vegas dates, they're ready to go in his she shed, but cut rate.

[rocktop]

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,

Well mma its weird when you get to star fighters they have a bunch of hidden contracts Jones made 7 mil for one fight and cormier made 5 mil for the lewis fight so i dont understand wtf if going on with that pay system its confusing.

[Pigeons]

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

I remember when I thought like this. Oh to be 18 again.