Pretty delusional to demand at least 40. Wasn't Parker the one begging NZ taxpayers to fund one of his cards? If Wilder and Parker price themselves out then AJ should focus on Ortiz, Povetkin and Pulev.
I think Parker deserves 40% or close to it as he came to England already and fought the guy they wanted him to fight (Fury) and beat him, he basically did what they asked him to do. Now we don’t really know what Hearns offer was but if it was as low as Duca says it says more about how little Hearns believe in AJ than Duca believe in Parker.
Also got a million vs takam and over a million vs Ruiz. So vs Browne in a stadium in Say Australia he will still get lot more than wilder has ever managed.
This. 40% is fair for Parker. Anything less makes Parker look desperate, which I doubt Parker is. Parker can easily keep racking up wins and just face the winner of Wilder-Joshua, which at this point would clearly be Wilder. If Hearn wants to buy some time from having to deal with Wilder he needs to pay Parker, who if he keeps winning will eventually get more expensive. I also see Wilder refusing anything less than 50-50.
I think that a lot of these boxing managers are innumerate. A 20-80 split that brings you £8 million, is better than a 70-30 split that brings you £1 million. Its all about the money and not the split ratio you ******ed mongaloid.
Martin made more than that and isn't half the fighter Parker is. Also, Parker is a champion himself and would never entertain a 20-80 split. A mandatory would take 25% or less, but not a champion. Its starting to get very obvious that Hearn doesn't want Joshua fighting Wilder or Parker anytime soon.
Having a belt alone and beating up inferior opposition to Joshua doesn't mean Parker deserves 40%. Whatever percentage he gets will come down to how much Joshua and Hearn want Parker's WBO belt. Maybe they want it enough to pay the 40%. Wlad agreed to take a pay cut and gave Ibragimov a 50/50 split but back then Wlad was making less money that Parker is now as he had yet to get backing from RTL, so it's a bit different to Wlad, over paying Ibragimov a few hundred thousand dollars compared to Joshua paying Parker 10 million or more than he is currently earning. However low it was it was still probably several times what Parker has earned before for one fight. Hearn has thrown out the 80/20 figure and even 20% is far more than what Parker has earned before. Joshua/Wlad saw them split £30 million or $39 million. 20% of that is £6 mill or $7.8 mill. So Duco asking for 40% could be $15.6 mill or more, that's 10 times what Parker has ever earned before.
Martin was a champion, Joshua wasn't then, hence why Martin was paid so much. Joshua and Hearn were willing to over pay Martin to win an easy belt. Joshua/Parker is a very different situation, Joshua this time is the one with 2 belts, while Parker only has 1 and probably the least respected of all the belts too.
This is exactly it. If they were that confident of winning, they wouldn't care what the split is. Whoever beats AJ will have a licence to print money.
Its pretty simple. Let me ask you a question. If I offered you two jobs. Job 1- You get £7 million for. But in that you lose a bit of pride because you have to accept you are not as important as your co-worker and get paid a lot less than him. Or, Job 2- You get £1 million for. In that you have your pride in tact because you are paid more than you co-worker for respect of your previous achievements. This content is protected Is pride more important to you than money?
Is this Parker saying this or Higgins? Parker doesn't strike me as a man to get too hung on on figures when a big fight could be made, but I don't know what's going on with this situation since I'm not really following it too closely at this stage. Regardless, Parker should be happy to get anything in the 30-35 range. He might only deserve 20% of the purse but as a current belt holder, and an undefeated universally recognised top five fighter, and one of only two men that fans are truly clamouring for Joshua to get into the ring against, an 80-20 split is akin to saying you're just another knockover, and I think Parker's pride would prevent him from taking that, even if, when the purse is broken down, it's substantially more than he's ever received before. I'd expect a 70-30 split minimum. I think that's workable and fair for both teams.