Team Bute: We are still waiting for a reply from Mikkel Kessler.

Bute is ducking Hopkins.

 

I never hear about 2.5millions, do you have any source, I find it pretty big, I thought the S6 fighter did around 1-1.5M each, but I really dont know, so if you have some info about it, it would be interesting.

 

I remember the Calzaghe negotiations, the first offer from Frank ****** was around 1,5 millon dollars... And the hordes of Calzaghe fans on this board thought that is was more than reasonable, and Kessler was clearly ducking! In the end he ended up with more than three times the amount! (and still got screwed by Palle).

 

Like I said, it depends of a lot of factors. If he has the European TV rights, the total would become interesting. You can't say it's a bad offer until you know all the details. Is it really 1 million?

The first step for Sauerland is to talk to Interbox: he has to say yes or no. For the moment, he plays politics with the WBO.

When do you think Kessler will fight if he takes the WBO-Stieglitz way? I'm afraid it would take a long time. Not the best thing for Kessler.

In fact, it's usually so long before getting a mandatory fight that he'd have time to fight Bute first!

 

Well, 1 million usd plys the european tv rights should give easily over 2 millions, so it wouldn't be a bad offer.

 

And with the rumors of the fight being in the states, the gate money will be a lot less than in Danemark or in Canada, so we just dont really know about it all, so we get nothing in making opinion for one side or another right now.

 

I don't know about the rumor of the fight being held in USA. What about it?

 

In one of the time Bute talked to the media, I'm pretty sure the US were in the discussion for his next fight (after Mendy). He sais on (rds I think) that it may take some time before he will fight in Montreal. And then some (in my view) stupid people were angry at him saying "he took our money for bad fights and when he get the big fight he is going away".

Bute really needs some experience without the crowd too.

 

The best Bute made in his career is barely 1M, I dont know about the right money should be, but a 5M (Kessler) and a 1M (Bute) fight is not realistic...

 

Kessler was at Bute last fight to start negociation and to see St-Juste in action who was at this time a possibe fight for Kessler Return and a good tune-up for Bute since he his a lefty!

Then no more talk from Kessler team before they annouced Bouadla as return fight who's right handed and ranked by the WBO!

So i think Saureland know for a long time that Kessler would go after Stieglitz!

 

I remember now Interbox and Bute saying the Magee fight could be the last one in Montreal for a while. I thought at the time they wanted to sell more tickets. I'd like that fight to be in USA. Bute needs to fight abroad indeed.

 

That makes some sense!