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70/30, 65/35 kind of split would be reasonable. Parker does have a belt after all, has a pretty good resume for a 24-0 titlist and has fought in the UK before so he brings a fair bit to the table. I just worry about how marketable his mild mannered New Zealander demeanor is, I like how respectful he is but is he going to turn as many heads as a big, shouty American yelling "BOOOOOOOMBZQUAAAAAD" every five minutes? I don't think so.

Does anybody else think Parker could be squeezed a little bit into taking a lowball offer here? Povetkin is just as much a boogieman as Ortiz and he's about to become Parker's mandatory. I think Hearn could take full advantage of that. We know Povetkin refused to match Parker's $4M asking price (which is damn reasonable considering Wilder wants $7-10M for Whyte ), so why would Hearn pay anything significantly higher than that if he knows Parker's caught between a rock and a hard place?

 

If pulev was getting 20% then I would say parker deserves 30% minimum, his name has been attached to joshua’s For many years his fights have been shown on English tv for years and he’s bringing a belt and an undefeated record to the table.

 

That was a mandatory which dictated Pulev's return.

Parker should get 25% max

 

But if you are Hearn and do that, you run the risk of Parker calling the bluff and just milking the title for a little while. And then that puts Hearn between the rock and a hard place, left paying much more for Wilder, taking the more dangerous and less lucrative fight with Ortiz, or a combination of both with Povetkin. And those are the only truly credible, resume boosting HW's out there right now. It'll hurt Joshua more to milk the title a few defenses than it will for Parker to.

 

Oh **** yeah ur right, but still I think 30% for parker is a more than reasonable demand from his camp.

 

70 - 30 is more than fair, as someone’s already pointed out that about 5 times Parker’s biggest ever payday.

If Parker wins he could get a 50 - 50 share of the rematch, if he loses he could get a 75 - 25 split This means a two fight deal worth between $12 & $18 Million with a third fight also on the cards if they go one win each. These earnings are beyond anything Parker could expect without Joshua so he should take the deal.

Hearn also has to consider the precedent this sets, should Joshua win and move onto Wilder then Wilder would be looking at a similar deal to Parker.

 

85/15

 

Joshuas not going to like your 15%

 

Hearn would love that. That means he'd get to keep all the live gate and PPV money. Parker should be wanting a cut of the PPV.

Haye took a small cut when he challenged Valeuv but he banked solely on buy rates and that gamble paid off when he walked away clearing close to 10 mil. All the casuals bought that fight in droves.

 

But if Parker does refuse Hearn's offer then he has to fight Povetkin within the next 6 months. There's only so much milk you can get from a cow in 6 months, and it will be a darn sight less than any payday he could have gotten against Joshua. You've also got to consider the possibility of Ryabinsky flexing his financial muscles and blowing Higgins away in the purse bids, which to be fair would get Parker more money but also force him to go to Russia where he is surely more likely to lose his title.

The point is, no matter which way you cut it Joshua is Parker's most valuable option. Hearn knows this, Parker knows this, and Hearn is intelligent enough to use Povetkin's mandatory status as a stick to beat Parker with and persuade him to take a lower % than if somebody like Hammer was mandatory.

Face Joshua for three unified titles and ~6M or go to Russia to fight the guy nobody is mentioning for ~4M?

Those figures are estimates of course, but you get the point. With Povetkin as mandatory Hearn has the bargaining power to lowball Parker and still get a deal done.

 

60/40 Joshua was exposed in his last fight. It's a 50/50 fight and Parker might actually ko the big slow pollywaffle.

 

Parker called AJ average and said he will KO him.
80-20 is a great deal to face an average opponent.

 

30% minamum ... I mean parker has a belt. 35% would be fair.

 

To act as if Parker deserves less than a mando split is absurd IMO.