Picasso pulled out vs Inoue

It is not. There are exceptions to every rule.

Fury would have made boatloads of money with Joshua.

Jon Jones would have had by far his biggest payday ever with Ngannou.

So many examples, I just jot down the first 2 huge ones in the most prestigious division that came to mind in this current era.

The more you dig the more you'll find. A lot more.

 

This **** again?! C'mon!

 

Jose Ramirez Maciel could be the new challenger ? He is also Mexican and ranked no. 5 by WBC...


Not sure but it's realist personally.

 

This is one of the dumbest things ive ever read.

 

Good. Just make the MJ fight now instead.

 

Junto is ready to step up and bash him around.

 

MJ is the best option at 122, hopefully they can make it.

 

So now we have a second fighter that pulls out from Inoue. How frustrating.

Inoue needs to fight MJ next or move up to Featherweight already. There's literally nobody else besides MJ at 122 that's interesting for Inoue to fight at this point.

 

I guess it was Dubois who sold the 96 thousand tickets, not Joshua.

 

Bakole is always available.

 

Where's the first joker? He should be healed by now. Put his ass back in there. LOL

 

Three replacement opponents in a row would be ****. MJ or Junto are the best opponents for Inoue, if he could get either of them in the ring that would be ace. Honestly though, I'd settle for Shabaz Masoud at the rate opponents are dropping out on Inoue.

 

This is one of the silliest analysis I have read. A cash cow does not mean that there is only one, big box office draw in the division, or the sport.
The reason Fury and Usyk has such a big purse is because of the Saudis, not because they can actually draw those numbers via ticket and PPV sales.
Joshua has been a cash cow his entire career, and still is. He sells PPV´s and tickets at numbers which few can rival.
Could be that Canelo is the bigger draw, but it doesn´t take away from Joshua.

It´s completely fine to say that Canelo is the bigger draw, but that Usyk and Joshua are both cash cows.

 

Usyk and Fury were paid extremely high rates because Turki has chosen to overpay fighters to get them onto his cards. Turki has been throwing money at fighters to get them in the ring with whoever he wants them in with. AJ is a massive star in the UK and has been for the better part of a decade. No-one else can sell tickets or PPV buys like AJ with the UK boxing audience. Fury never endeared himself to UK fans anywhere near the level AJ did. AJ is quite obviously a cash-cow in the sport and it's kinda insane to argue he isn't.
Likewise, Inoue is the biggest pay-cheque anyone at these weights is likely going to see. The crowds he draws in Japan are enormous, he's a celebrity over there. No-one under 135 can headline and sell out stadiums like Inoue can, none of them have his fanbase or his popularity. He brings a massive pay-cheque compared to everyone else at the weight. Fulton gets stuck on PBC undercard to fight in front of half-empty arenas, Bam is still stuck as a co-main in Philly for Boots and can't draw by himself, and Junto fights to much smaller crowds than Inoue. Inoue is the only high-earner at those weights and he compensates his opponents well.