K2 and the contracts offered to various fighters......

what promoter doesn't try to cover their asses, the brother intimidation factor shouldn't be an issue....if you want to be #1 you have to beat both anyway....unless you let time do that for you(Vitali)

imho, if there is a fighter right now that could outbox Wlad twice in a row, he would have the talent to be heavily favored over Vitali....this contract gives you a straight shot to the lineal title

 

"Goossen and Don King are taking $700,000 of the $2.8 million that James Toney is earning for the Hasim Rahman fight"

From a link, talking about how much he was paying his promoters at the time. Bare in mind, that he'd still have to give away of the $1.8m too, before anyone makes any wrong assumptions.

I agree that Toney has a poor resume at heavyweight but $2.8m was obviously his value at the time. Maybe he was a draw? I don't know, but there is no way a promoter has ever paid a guy more than what they're worth, so when he got paid $2.8m, it's because he was worth every cent.

No matter what you think, you don't go from one world title shot and earn $2.8m, to another where you earn $1.5m, against a bigger draw. It's illogical. Klitschko is a much bigger draw than Rahman and the fight would have made more money, so why would Toney get paid less? It doesn't make sense.

 

in my scenario, would you say "waa waaa" im gonna have my best freind fight you? or would you be thinking we will be closer to one champ so who cares

 

i agree and disagree i guess.....i mean yea if you beat Wlad twice you definately deserve a rest, but who is going to prepare you better for Vitali than the two fights with Wlad? who else would there be to fight? the fans wouldn't want any other match up

in Haye's case, i think the money maker for the third fight showdown would be in Germany

with Chisora, its debatable whether he would make more unifying with Haye in London....or fighting the third fight in Germany v Vitali after beating Wlad twice

 

so the addition of Vitali to the contract is:

with respect to Chisora.....unfair

with respect to K2...........smart business

 

boxingfan, the contracts don't bother me...i met the Klitschko's in LA, i'm a fan, don't want to see them loose

also, if Chisora didn't want to fight Vitali, he wouldn't have signed the contract

obviously, Chisora has the confidence to see the light at the end of a three fight tunnel...he knows the money he would make as the heavyweight king if he won all three fights

i also feel that most of the guys on your list don't believe they could best a Klitschko 1 time, let alone 3....so they don't sign

 

Deserved? There is no such thing as entitlement in business. He turned it down because he was lead to believe he could do better and that certainly did not turn out that way for him. I doubt he got anywhere near that amount for his next 2 fights.

 

If managers or promoters are reading this, I'm sure they're laughing at the ignorance...

3 fight deals or (options on 3 fights) for non-mandatories is common practice.

What isn't common is to specify which boxer a guy will need to face in the third fight of the deal, besides the initial fight and the rematch.