Vitali - Stiverne: King wants $2million purse for Stiverne

King wants a $2million purse for Stiverne, K2 has offered $1 million...and that's where things stand right now. Reportedly King is willing to go down to $1.5 million.....does Stiverne deserve that?

Does he even deserve a million? I know he's mandatory, but come on, even a million must be at least 10x more than he's ever made in a single fight. I think a million is more than fair.

 

Let it go to a purse bid, let's see if King bids enough for Stiverne to get 2 million.

 

Wouldn't surprise me if King overbid and then lost it like he's been doing....

 

I think a million is fair but if you think about it. this would be the first fight since Arreola that the US would want to watch. so just pay the man the 1.5, and Vatli can try to add to his legacy

 

wouldn't surprise me if King ripped Stiverne off of a large portion of the 2 million he wants

 

King wants 2 million for Stiverne so he can pay 750k to Stiverne.

Ortiz got 2.5 million for Mayweather, so I'd say King needs to lower his expectations.

 

for Stiverne to get a 2 mil payday through a purse bid King would have to bid over 8 milliion. No way is he going to do that and if he does he will default.

King is just posturing. Remember when he wanted 4 mil for Valuev to fight Vitali when Valuev had already lost the WBA belt :roflatsch

 

Don has his work cut out, screwing Stiverne out of more money than K2. :yep

 

michael dokes made $850 ooo grand against bowe and that was 1993....peter mcneely made $750 000 grand against mike tyson in 1995 18 yrs ago...and both guys werent even mandatories.....razor ruddock made 2 million against lennox lewis in 92...and lennox made 1.7 against ruddock.........stiverne deserves 1.5 million to 2 million easily in yr 2013...did you guys realize corrie sanders only made $250 000 grand when he blew away wladimir ???????.........stiverne deserves 1.5 to 2 million for beating areolla ...and being ranked #1 by the wbc...DON KING IS GOD

 

your numbers are off for one McNeeley made $540,000 vs Tyson and Sanders 150k vs Wlad. Second, if King wants Stiverne to make 2 mil nothing is stopping him from making a winning purse bid that would do such.

 

Don King even getting CLOSE to someone who has even a slight chance at having part of the heavyweight title makes me cringe.

But then again, Stiverne don't have a chance, so........no worries.

 

On a realted note, I guess this means VK is not retiring just yet, afterall !!!

 

Poor DK, begging money from K2 :rofl

He'll price Stiverne out and make the fight fall through. No way Stiverne is worth 2 mil, otherwise Vitali would have disposed of him already and made the payday.

This is much like that Valuev deal.

 

Stiverne would be happy with 1mil but he is not getting that no matter how much King gets paid. This is what you get for doing business with DK.

 

im not holding my breath on this one. I have seen how DK negotiates. I give this fight about 30% chance of getting done if DK is acting like this already