LOL where's this whole Wilder beating Joshua as a given narrative come from? Dude has fought nobody and looked sloppy as hell in doing so.
the percentage game is only relevant if the fight goes to purse bids which it cant as neither is a mandatory. from the promoters perspective unless he is the one trying to buy his fighter a big fight / he works out his costs/ his potential profits / then if it was me i would offer the fighters a set figure with a 10 to 20 percent cut of than for me. in the case of joshua / his live gate alone puts 7 to 8 million on the table / another 2 million overseas tv rights / sky ppv 5 to 10 million and you have your figures as a promoter to start divying up. again if i was in the promoters shoes i would offer all australasias tv rights to the parker camp so i could pay him less out of my own money.
Lmao. It's only gong to get worse for Joshua. He can continue to rot in the U.K. if he goes that route. He will be rich with no respect from boxing fans outside of the U.K. He will run out of opponents.
Do you really believe this? Joshua can just go down the list and fight the next top contender for big money. Povetkin, Ortiz (when his ban ends), Pulev, Miller, Fury (when he gets fit again). In a years time even more potential fights will open up. Once they are ready, he will have the likes of Hrgovic, Joyce, Dubois to consider. You can hate Anthony Joshua as much as you want, but he has replaced Klitschko as the money man of the division. All roads lead to him.
Parker trying to sell his belt and can you blame him? He won’t be getting another once he loses it.
I think Joshua should take the 60/40. Forget about it as just one fight. This fight will be big, it is a unification, and it will raise Joshua's profile to a higher level and lead to more money in every future fight. Yes he is overpaying Parker, but after you overpay Parker and Wilder, the best a future opponent can hope for is 20% of the purse, and it will be a FAR bigger purse!!!
Looks to me like the American television networks are starting to flex some muscle. That likely means Joshua fighting in the US next up, probably against Big Baby, in what will be Joshua's last fight with Showtime (yes, I know Big Baby just fought on HBO). Joshua gets that fight done, introduces himself to the American audience (in person) & it then clears the decks for a unification fight with Wilder in the northern hemisphere summer on HBO. Where does that leave Parker? Fighting Big Daddy in Australia followed by another voluntary (possibly Jennings in the US). I like all of those fights, btw. Joshua v Miller then Wilder. Parker v Big Daddy followed by Jennings. If the numbers make sense thereafter, Parker re-enters the Joshua sweepstakes. If they don't, he faces his mandatory (possibly Povetkin in Russia). The truth of the matter is you don't actually need the WBO belt to be considered the unified & undisputed champ. With a drug-tainted Povetkin looming as the mandatory, winning that belt isn't a particularly attractive proposition. If we're keeping it real, Tyson Fury's lineal championship is more prestigious than the WBO championship. That's not meant to be a criticism of Joseph Parker (who is my favourite heavy).
Joshua claims he wants to unify all the belts in 2018. But he isn't going to be able to do that, and pocket all the money for the unification fights, in the process. The figures being thrown about publicly really only amount to high ball / low ball bravado.
If you think the 20% cut for Parker VS AJ is less than the 750k Takam earned, you are out of your freaking mind.