12-08-2017, 08:43 PM
(12-06-2017, 12:49 PM)bopman Wrote: fight browne, Joshua doesnt want to fight
(12-08-2017, 08:09 PM)diehard Wrote:(12-07-2017, 10:27 PM)Nigs Wrote: Parker not driven by money and wants to unify yet won’t accept anything less than 35%. The fair and reasonable comment is a throw away and only put in there to counter people saying “accept the offer and unify”
Take 25%. Win the fight, and then you can command a bigger purse as you are in the box seat.
Calling another boxer scared is ludicrous. What’s worse is that it’s he world champ who has a much more bigger profile than Parker.
To be fair though, the name calling is coming from Higgins, who doesn’t have the cojones to get in the ring. Lol
Nigs, I want to negotiate with you. Because I'd give you 32% and you'd take 25%. Aside from all the posturing with both Mr Higgins and Hearn, Parker has a dance partner lined up, AJ doesn't, and I think AJ needs to unify more than Parker. Hence, give the man his 35%. To me, it's less about money and more about the ref, judges, gloves, venue, etc. Would be interesting to see which of the promoters is getting their way on these.
If the fight gets made all those small points are going hearns way.
Personally i do understand the issue because say for instance joshua vs takam was 90/10 split in favour of joshua, well if he's giving parker 25% more of the pot than takam, is the fight going to make that much more than the takam one because if not then joshua is taking a paycut
Similarly and boxing gossip mentioned this hearn could give dillian whyte 2 million pound for an AJ rematch and even though thats a crappy fight the casuals would lap it up. Manufacture some "fake beef", have chisora throw some bottles at joshuas head at a presser or sonething and boom, fight would sell like crazy to the uk casuals.
Even though as boxing fans thats the last thing WE want to see, it could be done and it would nake money. So thus is the stumbling block as i see it. Parkers market value in the uk is practically nothing, so even giving him 35% is probably gonna mean a paycut for joshua.
Its a strange financial situation currently in the division because outside of maybe povetkin nobody comes close to joshua in money terms.