Lots of debate on this 50/50 payouts...

if ali and frazier hasn't agreed on 50/50 for the biggest purse in boxing of that time like floyd did, then we won't have seen a classic fight that resulted in a great trilogy.

 

I would be interested in seeing how these past fight purses were split as well.. Also wondering if anyone uses the same business model as Mayweather for their fights, because it seems like he takes more because of how he does business.

 

So that was a 50/50 purse split? Do you have a link with this info?

 

The core of the issue is the 0% PPV.

If this was your average network station fight then that is all that will be split, is the purse. But this being a PPV fight , they also have to negotiate how the PPV money is to be split. In this case none.

 

Floyd Oscar was not no damn 50/50. Oscar Manny was not 50/50. Oscar Hopkins was not 50/50 you can keep going with Oscar there is a reason for that

 

http://espn.go.com/classic/biography/s/Ali_Muhammad.html

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this. floyd won't give pacquiao any share of the PPVs when pac's last 7 PPV are all smashing hits.

 

I think what Floyd is failing to realize is, even with a 50/50 split, he'll go home with more money. His argument isn't about ppv. It's about how much money he makes, but he'd still make more than Manny because of his contract vs Manny's contract with the promotion companies

 

yeah, him getting more money than pac would fuel his massive ego enough :yep

 

would be interested to see what the splits were on
hagler-hearns
hagler - leonard
leonard-hearns 1,2

 

I'm pretty sure Leonard got the bigger splits on all his big fights, except for Hagler (he instead opted for other things in his favor).

 

Thank you sir. :thumbsup

 

you're welcome. just did a quick google search. it was just from my memory and some posters in ESB that i knew about this info.