Comments Thread For: Lennox Lewis: Wilder Deserves 60-40 Split for Joshua Fight

[5000boxing]

Yes Lennox AJ should be paying Wilder out of his own pocket. Rubbish.....Wilder makes 1.5million per fight and brings in 8k crowds. Too many punches to the head sir.

B*tch.. if Wilder was from the U.K he would be a God. Them cheap ass tickets fool.. lol

[uppercut510]

Says a man who is Wilder's friend

so anyone who has an opinion that doesn't link with yours when it comes to aj has to have an agenda?

[Jab jab boom]

this is fair, and if they wanted the fight they would have offered a decent percentage and not all this flat fee bullsht and roadblocks, 60/40 in the uk is fair. hearn will control the refs and the judges as he stated in his contract, they should also allow showtime to be apart of it all but hearn to damn greedy. there should also be a rematch clause for both of them and not just for aj if he loses. who ever wins should be the A side in the rematch as well.... how you so called fans agree with what hearn is doing is beyond me.

people tend to arbitrarily decide what the right thing is based on who the fighter is. Wonder if all of these people who agree that wilder should just accept a flat fee were also in agreement with it when mayweather offered one to Pacquiao or when canelo offered one to ggg. Btw, both guys went on to make millions and millions more than the flat fee offer once the fights happened.

[Raggamuffin]

Lennox is jealous of Joshua, lmao!!!

[Luilun]

Wilder has no demands until he can fill an arena

[Raggamuffin]

Here is an example of how you know that Hearn doesn't and hasn't ever negotiated a potential big fight. Dlh's previous ppv high was 1.4 against Tito. Floyd had never sold anything close to that before fighting Dlh. Dlh Floyd sold 2.4 mil. You do the math.

I say that to say this.

They think they know Wilder's worth, but they don't know how to pay Wilder and still make top dollar in the U.K. All they know is that the fight can be big over there and that the just want to be greedy which is why they refused the fight in America, lmao. It's hilarious...

[New England]

maybe i'm issing something, but do you guys ever proofread your headlines BIGPOPPAPUMP ?

[New England]

Wilder has no demands until he can fill an arena

wilder's offer for 50 million to joshua was real. this fight would be bigger here overnight if it was signed and promoted. barry hearn has admitted this, so has eddie. there's just no comparing the top end boxing mathces in either coutnry. hopkins - calzaghe did better at the gate than joshua - klitshcko . really! look it up!


fill an arena doe

you guys don't know what you're talking abotu. eddie does, and that's why he's said that he wants the fight in the UK in spite of the bigger upside for having the figh there, and the 50 million dollar offer being real.

california alone has a bigger economy than all of england. acknowledge that and refute its impact.

[EnglishOxide]

you ever bought something and returned it after analyzing things further? Based on the money this fight is guaranteed to generate, taking 15 mil is essentially agreeing to an 80-20 split at best. Whether he said yes at first or not doesn't change the fact that it's a bad deal for him. What's so difficult to understand?

What's so difficult to understand is that Wilder accepted $15m and asked for a contract. Why ask for a contract if you aren't willing to sign it even though it has the terms you agreed to?

When the contract came and the figure was $15m, he doesn't sign the contract and turns down the deal saying they should have offered him more money and people defend this?

Yet they will criticise Joshua just for asking for a contract when the $50m offer came. It's madness.

[Ray*]

I don't think should come into it. If you are motivated enough your focus would be on getting the A-side in the ring. Money would come later.. I don't really like to go into that side of things and i understand you need that to make fights, but some times you got to take financial risks to get those big names in the ring with you.