Javier Fortuna vs. Carlos Ivan Velásquez & Domonique Dolton vs. Óscar Molina RBR

Seems like he got Eric Molina treatment.

 

A problem a lot of guys have is to be a mandatory position you have to accept being a significant B-side in a 75/25 split.

Since Kell Brook's been champion, Bundu, Khan, Bradley, Porter, Sadam Ali and Devon Alexander has all pulled out of the chance to fight in a final eliminator believing they can get more money elsewhere, or in the case of Khan & Bradley have been offered more for voluntaries.

Next in lines in Chaves who he's fighting in a voluntary, is a final eliminator between Kevin Bizier and Fredrick Lawson, so 25% against Brook is probably a big payday for them.

 

Yeah, but it's improved in the past couple of fights. Vasquez is pretty accurate and he was having trouble landing more than one punch at a time. And Velasquez can't really land much of anything thus far.

For a fighter like Fortuna, who attacks so awkwardly and appears to be so off balance most of the time, he hasn't really shipped a lot of sustained abuse in the last few fights.

 

I don't think I understand what you mean. Isn't being a mandatory far better financially than being a voluntary? Isn't that why Beterbiev is trying to get a mando position vs Kovalev when he can just fight him?

 

Fortuna is always in some ****ty fights! I'm done watching this ****!

 

Velasquez looks exactly like those big bums in the "Roy Jones Jr skills & knock outs [[[HD]]]] Subscribe here I'm begging you" videos.

 

Was that the funniest slip ever?

 

Depends on who you are. If you're a nobody then yes.

As a mando you get 25% come what may, so for Jo Jo Dan, that was probably more than he would've got offered against Kell Brook for a voluntary.

As a voluntary you get whatever the champ is prepared to offer, so for, say Amir Khan against Kell Brook 25% is ludicrous when Brook has already offered 60% for a voluntary.

Bare in mind to, in a final eliminator you get 50-50, so when Bradley said he'd have to fight Frankie Gavin in a 50-50 split in an eliminator followed by Brook in a 75/25 in Brook's favor, you can see why he took the 1.5m to fight Vargas instead for the WBO, and Brook and he are looking at a split probably in Bradley's favor in a unification next year.

 

I don't think that's correct, mate. I'll look it up after the fight. You might get "at least" 25% but I'm pretty sure you don't "have to" get 25% as a mando. For instance I know for a fact that Wilder had made more money than Stiverne for that fight and Stiverne was the champ.