Interbox makes over $1,000,000 just with ticket sells at the Bell Centre. The 20-30K ESPN pays to broadcast the show is irrelevant to them and it's not what they will use to pay Andrade (or Pavlik) to be on the undercard. The only reason they got ESPN to broadcast the card is because it's a good exposure for Bute.
Max, my point with the 30k figure is... That is what is was going to cost us to put on a fight with no big names. It's the promoter's (Top Rank) responsibility to come with the money, not ESPN's. ESPN will help in bringing the promoter advertising money to help offset the cost, but it falls on the promoter. Top Rank is not going to shell out the money to put Kelly on ESPN when they can do a PPV and collect all the revenue.
Do you think ESPN was hoping a show in Youngstown would give them access to our local fight celebrity? Darnell Boone? :think
As of this morning Cameron Dunkin wants Pavlik to run with this. The final decision is not up to Dunkin, but it sounds like he thinks it's a good idea.
Pavlik vs. Boone for Youngstown supremacy!!! :happy That's a perfect opponent, actually. Pavlik would certainly knock him out (a rare feat) and he's cheap enough to be affordable on the co-feature. Hell, they'd have money left over for Tessitore to blow on a classy drag queen of his choice!
Flaming Homosexuals as well as Floyd Homosexuals. People who think floyd mayweather jr. has a legitimate claim to being a top 10 ATG. They look an awful lot like this: This content is protected