Purses for tonight's Event: Wilder $4 mil, Fury $3 mil

Seems like everyone watched the fight last night.

I think the "predictions" that it would sell 100,000 or 200,000 PPVs are going to be laughable once the totals come in.

It was a very big event Saturday ... despite all the garbage being spouted on sites like this for months on end.

 

I wonder if there's some sort of tax loophole that makes fighters wamt to take low base pay (i.e. claim the base in Los Angeles and the PPV dollars in Alabama).

 

We'll see, anything over 300K is decent considering this is their PPV debut.

But whatever it does I suspect last nights horrible scorecards will kill any attempt to make the fight in the US between Joshua and Wilder.

 

Could be.

Some states, like New York, tax everyone (even if you don't live in the state) on any income they earn while in the state, despite the fact that a U.S. fighter will have to pay federal and annual state taxes in their own state for all the money they make in a year. (So they get hit with two state tax bills for the same payday). Which is why I'm surprised so many fights are held in Brooklyn.

Maybe California does that, too? I don't know.

 

How the **** is Hurd making that against this random guy?

 

They weren't any worse than the scorecards in Joshua-Parker in the UK. Or the scorecards of Stevenson's fight last night in Canada.

Fact is, there were no U.S. judges in the Wilder-Fury fight. And the British judge scored it a draw.

So I don't know why people are crying about a U.S. decision when no U.S. judges were involved in the scoring, and British judge didn't give it to Fury, either.

The Mexican judge who scored it for Wilder could've easily been given the assignment if the fight was held in the UK, too.

 

I don’t think that’s true. You pay NY State Tax on the money earned in New York but not in your own state. I’ve never heard anyone in NJ ***** about paying double taxes and they all commute to NYC for work.

But the tax rate in a place like Alabama is probably next to nothing and I don’t know that PPV dollars must be claimed in the place of the fight.

 

People who live in NJ and work in NY do pay state taxes in both states, I believe.

 

They fought for "Peasant Money".

 

https://www.quora.com/How-is-tax-if-you-live-in-NJ-but-work-in-NY

 

Great. I'm glad they have an arrangement. But back to the point, NY taxes people for the money they earn while in NY.

Your article says:

"New York claims income tax on wages you earn in New York, as a non-resident."

I don't know if California does that. If they do, then I could see why Wilder and Fury opted for low guarantees in Calif.

You'd definitely want to opt for low guarantees in NY, because they tax you on ANY money you earn there if you don't live in the state. And your state (or country, in Fury's case) will tax you for your annual income, too.

Whatever. I didn't come here to talk about taxes.

 

They made $4 million and $3 million before any PPV sales were counted.

Meaning they made that much if NO ONE bought a single PPV.

And we all know that it's the case.

 

Well Wilder said the 15 million offer from Hearn was "peasant money" so anything less is "peasant money".

 

And we'll see what they end up making.