Have the Klitsckos offered Haye at least 30% of the purse?

The Esprit Arena (Wlad - Chambers) has a maximum capacity of 50.000.

Wladimir vs. Chambers had 13.72 million viewers (58,9% market share!!!) in Germany. Vitali's fight last saturday was dwarfed by the Eurovision Song Contest which was won by Germany.

 

I agree, 60-40% in Wlad's favor is a fair offer with the standard rematch clause.

 

I don't think this is about the split or offer at all for Haye. It's all about the timing of the fight: now versus later.

Haye knows that if he loses to the Klits right now then he becomes damaged goods, especially on Sky PPV. No more PPV paydays boxing bums. Haye would lose out on millions in revenues from his next 2-3 fights against zero risk bums.

So he will only agree to fighting the high risk opponents like Wlad or Vitali after he's through with all the bums when he feels he's ready to retire anyways. Then it doesn't matter if he loses or not, at least from a financial point of view.

Haye told us he's not fighting for money or boxing politics, he's in it for legacy and glory. Him and Booth are pissing in our faces and probably are having a good time doing it.

 

Simple math really. Wlad is bringing a lot more to the table. Multiple belts & multiple defenses of each one to legitimize them. Haye has a highly tainted belt & he's defended it once against a guy who shouldn't have been the mandatory.

 

Even last year, when he was nobody with a big mouth, Haye was offered 40% or even more.

 

I think Chef confirmed it was 38%.

Haye demanded that he get the PPV sales for Sentanta though. Some people think he is a smart businessman - he clearly ****ed up the biggest deal of his lifetime though, don't beleive that makes him a good businessman.

 

I remember him getting only Setanta money which by no means was 40% of total revenue.

 

yeah, the number was ridiculously high considering how much Haye did at HW at that moment. If I'm not mistaken, voluntary challengers can consider themselves lucky if they get 25%.

I think Haye doing the right thing - he can milk the title in the UK for some time now. By the next year VK will get even worse and Haye seems to be mildly interested in fighting him.

 

nope, see above!

 

Here's some more simple math. You have BOTH of Wlad's balls in your mouth.

 

Haye - Valuev sold 800k views in the UK. Let's say a fight with Wlad could have sold 1 million UK views. Thats 1m x 14.95 = 14.95 million GBP. Haye gets 1/3 of the revenues from Sky, let's assume he had a similar deal with Setanta. That means Haye would have made 5 million GBP = 7.5 million US Dollars.

If Haye's $7.5 million Dollars from Setanta were not 40% of the total purse then you are claiming the total global purse was higher than $19 million Dollars. Given there was only regular TV deals such as German RTL and US HBO (not PPV) plus the gate revenues you are probably way off. The total revenues (outside of UK PPV) were probably around $10 million, if that.

In fact it was Booth's desire to just get the Setanta money and no split of anything else because that's the best deal for Haye (if Setanta hadn't gone bust).

 

So Setanta was planning to pay 38% of whole revenue, without knowing how many PPV sales they would get?
Wouldn’t it be safer to give some percentage of total PPV sales and smaller guarantee money?

No wonder they were bankrupt.

 

How Cheff can confirm that it was 38% based on asumed PPV numbers of a match that didnt happen?

But it sounds like possible percent if he really had similar deals with Setanta and Sky.

 

Is "chef" this mythical cook who is somehow also linked to negotiations speaking the truth??

Im not going to dis-credit the guy as he comes across well when discussing points with him but come on this is an internet forum!!
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