Comments Thread For: Gary Russell: Hearn Offered Me $1 Million To Fight Warrington; Beneath My Standards

[DougalDylan]

Gary's story should be so I picked up the phone and said I couldn't do that and asked for X amount instead.

The fact he didn't means X is many times a million so no point or he just didn't want the fight at any price.

[James Hunt]

Waste of time anyway.

[Greenfield02]

This guy has wasted his career thinking he's worth more than he is, seems to be a trend nowadays.

[2ndroundko]

What is Russell’s pay from his previous fights - there any history on that? I don’t really know if this is a good offer or not to be honest. Certainly seems strange he wanted to bring it out in public if he had any view of making a deal to have the fight

averages about 1.5m. he gets a cut of the gate at his fights.

[GBP4LIFE]

He makes a mill+ every fight to fight nobodies lol

[GBP4LIFE]

Hearn is a clown

[BoxingIsGreat]

Any commission reported purses: Sources?

[Ray*]

Wait Rey vargas is his mandatory? Wow 😳

[Ray*]

What is Russell’s pay from his previous fights - there any history on that? I don’t really know if this is a good offer or not to be honest. Certainly seems strange he wanted to bring it out in public if he had any view of making a deal to have the fight

I think he made 1.5m on average, honestly 1m to come over to the UK is a lowball offer. Especially because it’s a voluntary fight, unification yes but now that Josh has dropped his belt, it makes it even more of an expensive fight for Team Josh, I think 2m plus should be the right amount in this pandemic.

[sicko]

He got 1.4 Million + Gate for Jojo Diaz that is great for him but the downside is that yeah by him already getting Minimum $1 Million to fight his Mandatory Annual...then WTF will he ask for for bigger fights is the question

Gary will likely fight Jessie Magdaleno or Rey Vargas for his annual 1 Fight/WBC Mandatory Fight and yeah he will likely get over $1 Million for that