Marcos Maidana: Will He Fight or Give Up The Interim Title?

It's Maidana who is the spanner in the works.

His fixed demand of $1 million (or whatever it is) is what's making things so awkward for the organizers. There simply won't be enough in the pot to please everyone if they try to honour his requests. So when Khan says "Maidana is overpricing himself", he's not lying. Noway is he worth more than what Malignaggi was in Khan's last fight.

 

Do you think Khan would fight Maidana for $87.000? Maidana is going to accept any bid much easier than Khan because the mandatory split is better than the Golden Boy split. So if they want to make Khan happy, they have to place a pretty high bid, which will make Maidana happy, and that's why he pushed for the purse bid, it's pretty easy to see.

 

Which would give Maidana a considerably better overall purse, that is why he's pushing for the purse bid.

 

Cobbler, don't you see how this just doesn't work.

HBO's 2million is the maximum GBP have to play with.

2 million - 1.25million for Khan = 750k

Minus costs is around 500k. So GBP puts in a purse bid of 500k????, have you ever listened to purse bidding for a championship bout, there will be tonnes more bids in excess of this sum. It simply isn't competitive. They would lose. An average bid for this will be 1 million, and they won't win.

HBO consider it worth 2 million and there are other U.S. broadcasters for promoters to go to. It could go for 1.8-2million. Way in excess of (in your scenario) 500k

I can't explain it anymore than that, this is how the business operates

 

You don't understand. Golden Boy can't bid a small amount and give Khan cash under the table. When a purse bid is in place, the organization takes control over the purses, so if Khan's guaranteed is 1.2 million and it goes to the purse bid, Golden Boy have to bid an amount of which Khan's 60% or so would be the $1.2M, and that would give Maidana a much better purse than the one being discussed without the purse bid.

 

No, I said "minus costs is around 500k.", as in after costs

I work in the business side of industry, by you're comments I can only assume you're a fan, or a boxer. I'm not giving you an opinion, telling you Khan is evil and so on, I'm telling you how the system actually works.

 

Jesus Christ what the **** is the hold up with nearly every big fight? I mean i know what the hold ups are but enough is enough already.

Williams-Martinez
Bradley-Alexander
Khan-Maidana
Ward-Dirrell
Cotto-Chavez

Sign some ****ing contracts!! Looks like Bradley-Alexander is the closest but i'm not celebrating until a press release.

 

Wait is cobbler from the uk? If so then i'm not surprise he's trying to twist everybody here to think Maidana will be the one that will turn down the fight lol. I bet Cobbler defends his hero Nazeem when Nazeem refuse to fight Mayweather.

 

So far the poll 32 people vote "Maidana will fight Khan" while only 5 people (i bet only from england) voted for "Maidana will give up his interim title".

 

At least JMM - Katsidis is done and dusted!

 

I take it you're from the uk?

 

Yep, it really is quite straight forward. Maidana is just trying to secure himself more money for the fight, you can't blame him for that.