Angel Garcia names Danny's price to fight on DAZN

If Hearn brags about $1bn budget, what does he expect? Fighters are gonna want more to fight on his platform. That eye-catching headline he used to announce the DAZN deal is coming back to bite him on the arse. Anyone in business knows you keep the extent of your finances vague when striking a deal...

 

You would expect the majority of those fighters, even a lot of the not really smart ones, can figure out for themselves that he isn't in it for charity. There's overpaying fighters (Haymon style), there's massively overpaying fighters (JayZ style) and there's expecting insanity (like this).
Sure Hearn/Dazn are bound to overpay some just to have their names on their roster, but everyone with half a brain knows not to ask for these ridiculous amounts and just get the finger instead. Overasking and then hopefully getting a good amount of that after negotiating outside of public view is 10 times smarter as this nonsense.

I do believe however that some come out with demands like this because they can't get out of their current contracts and still want to look in full control towards their fanbase.

 

Because $1bn is BS. No one throws a billion at a start-up. He factored in all the options which will only activate should targets be hit over a period of years. If you think he's got access to $1bn (or ever will in all likelihood) you must be crazy. Eddie is like a child who's been given the biggest ever chest of toys to play with, and he's got a little giddy. To be fair though, he's good at spending other people's money

 

True. But I guess they are using the basic principle 'if you don't ask you don't get'. Worth a roll of the dice I suppose, and Hearn still needs to grow his roster and isn't slow coming forward to alk about how big his budget is. Broner made public the kind of figures Hearn was throwing about, so I guess you pitch high and see what comes back...

 

Maybe some dudes just don't want to work with Hearn that much

 

That's what I mean, as he could have asked for 4 to 4½ million behind closed doors (JayZ level overpaying) and maybe getting 3 to 3½ out of it (still way too much for Danny). Asking 6 to 8 in public just makes you look like a clown instead.

 

Probably settle for that too. But it's like any financial negotiation you work towards the figure you want rather than start there. Ask for $6m, get $4m. But ask for $4m, you might 'only' get $3m. Hearn set the money-grab agenda by over-inflating what he has available. Angel coming out with that in public kinda forces Hearn's hand to respond in public. Let's see if he does. He does like to be transparent, so I guess we will find out soon enough.

As for Danny's true value, well I agree with you in principle. But when you bring a lot of new finances into a market (in this case the boxer market) prices are forced up. Like when selling a house and a new buyer makes a counter offer. You push up the price....

 

I agree. The $1bn is PR....

 

Angel should simply said what ever khans on triple it eddie we both know danny as lesser loses don t gktfo and is a two weight champ
What eddie squirm yeah but urm

 

Hearn is an idiot for making grandiose statements about the purses he can offer to fighters in America and how his backers' "pockets are deep". All that will happen now is that every US fighter will ask for tons of money.

It will be a football-like inflation. When you see **** poor footballers from the Championship command £10m+ transfer fees to Premier League relegation fodder. The same thing will happen in boxing now where shitty fighters are paid massive amounts in a tv broadcasting war. And who will suffer? The fans. More PPVs, just watch.

 

It may take awhile but eventually a bigger name star will get on board DAZN, and when that happens plenty of others will follow.