05-03-2018, 03:29 AM
(05-02-2018, 10:37 AM)Beefstew Wrote:(05-02-2018, 04:35 AM)U.K. Fight Fan Wrote:(05-01-2018, 01:17 AM)tm7 Wrote: Also Wilder’s team haven’t got $50m to spend, according to Eddie it was just a PR stunt
This is the thing. It's ok saying, I'll give you $50mil but where is that coming from. Wilder and AJ have NEVER done a PPV in the US. Ever. And it will need the US market to get anywhere near those figures.
You go to a bank and apply for a mortgage they look at your financials. Your history. Same with putting on an event. Wilder has made $2mil tops from one fight. Never done PPV. Yet he can offer AJ $50mil, and presumably $50mil for himself. What in Wilder's history suggests he can make a $100mil PPV event? They're living in a dream world. The best part is it's not Wilder who can generate the money anyway! He's doing it off AJ's name. He fights anyone else and he's back to $1-2 mil a fight. AJ fights Fury, Haye, Whyte and he's still making big money.
Wilder's team are complete amateurs.
If you think Al Haymon is an amateur then you need to do some research my son. I dont believe either team really wants this fight right now another year or two of hype and it might get the numbers they are hoping for. I dont think this fight goes ahead unless Hearn/AJ are in control its obvious being in control of the promotion is more important then the money for them.
Haymon is useless. He swooped up a load of fighters, who now only fight once a year. His PBC model is failing. He's just a pencil pusher who has tried to get around the Ali act. Fighters have already started to leave him eg Danny Jacobs. Which one of his fighters has he been successful in promoting? He has a American HW champion who hits like a truck and is undefeated, yet nobody knows who he is in his own country.
Enlighten me Beefy?
As for Lou Dibella, Finkel and Wilder...yeah they are the definition of professionalism.