Klitschkos offered 500K to most of their challengers and Wilder calls 15M as peanuts

Wlad paid more for unification fights which this is, Wilder is not just another defence. He paid 50/50 to Haye and Ibragimov. Does that mean Wilder deserves 50/50? No not even close.

When Wlad unified with Ibragimov they only had a belt a peace, Wlad the IBF and Ibragimov the WBO. Joshua has 3 belts while Wilder only has 1, this is not the same scenario. Wlad also wasn't the draw Joshua is, hell he even wasn't the draw back then he became later on. The money involved in this fight is peanuts compared to AJ/Wilder, hell Wilder's $15 mill purse is more than Wlad or Sultan got, hell it might be more than their combined purses.

Haye was a big draw without Klitschko in the UK. Haye got £5 mill for fight Harrison in his previous fight, that's about $7-8 mill back then and was comparable to what Wlad was making at the time if not more. Even after Haye lost, Haye then made £3 mill or about $4-4.5 mill vs Chisora in his very next fight. With or without Wlad, Haye was making good money unlike Wilder, Wlad offering anything less than 50/50 would of been a low ball offer.

Haye much like Joshua now was a draw and had access to SKY PPV which for Wlad meant he could access a lucrative market he normally couldn't draw much from and earn far more than usual. Now Wilder too brings that to the table for Joshua, but the big difference is Haye was a proven draw on UK PPV, Wilder is not a proven draw on US PPV. Again this isn't the same scenario.

The 15 mill on offer to Wilder in reality is a ton of money and way beyond anything he could earn in any other fight. Is it a fair offer? Maybe not, a split is more usual but we are in an odd scenario when one fighter is the far, far larger draw.

Mayweather in similar scenarios paid far less when he was earning even more than Joshua. Maidana got 1.5 mill to Mayweather's 32 mill, Berto got 4 mill, Ortiz got 2 mill. All these guys had titles yet got a fraction of what Wilder is getting from an even bigger draw than AJ. Fact is compared to Mayweather's opponents purses this is a big pay day.

 

This

 

Haye reportedly made £10million when he fought his unification fight with Wlad, Joshua reportedly made £15million when he fought Wlad, and Parker reportedly made £7million in his fight with Joshua.

In context of recent unification fights at Heavyweight its clear that £15million is in the higher estimates of potential purses and calling it "peanuts" is a bit delusional.

 

I don't see the problem here. If Wilder considers that a low ball offer then he should move on with his life, and Joshua should do the same. What both fighters do to maximise their career earnings are their own affair.

 

Deontay does not even earn $1,500,000 per fight. How can he pay that to his challenger? His own promotors wont even put up the money for him

 

Adamek made $5 million vs. Vitali.

 

David Haye brought UK PPV revenue to the table

 

This

For all those who seem to think Wilder is getting shortchanged just remind us of how much Wilder pays his opponents?

 

Wilder sure suks on expensive nuts. i mean peanuts obv.

 

If thats true its because the fight was fought in a huge stadium in Poland. I don't see how this has any relation to Wilder.
Charr was a Wilder type opponent and he was initially offered 200K before Vitali eventually settled on paying him 400K.

Solis 1M was peanuts compared to Vitali's 15M. Wlads voluntary opponents like Mormek were paid in the 600K-800K range.

Wilder isn't a money man , but neither is a P4P guy like Errol Spence. There's no point to make comparing Klitschko's to Wilder. Klitschko's had millions and millions of Germans watching their fights on free TV.

 

If $15,000,000 is peanuts to Wilder, then what is the $1,500,000 he currently gets per fight?

He should be renamed Deluded Wilder.

 

So why didn't Golovkin accept GBs flat fee offer of $15M? His highest purse prior to that fight had been $2.5M

Wilders highest purse so far has been $2.1M

 

It doesn't matter what anyone makes..Wilder going off of 2.1 and getting 15 million is over 7 times his highest pay . Everyone stills ignoring the rematch clause on Wilders soil and 50%. Whoever got a deal like that if they win?

Wilder simply wants more money.