The AB Yarde fight has less than 500k on youtube on Top Ranks official channel, in 15 hours. Obviously this will keep going up but will be interesting to see it's pace. To be honest I expected better numbers.
how it should be, really. these last couple of years we’ve seen what happens when the fighters themselves call the shots
Crawford made a killing with Arum: Benavidez $3.5 million Khan $5 million Brook $4 million Kavauliaskas $4.5 million Porter $6 million Crawford was one of the top earners in boxing under Arum.
Inoue got 350K and Donaire got 125K for their rematch. I could have paid both they purse. That's insanity.
It’s crazy that he went from 1.5m vs Moloney to 350k vs Donaire to 2.5m vs Butler. It makes me wonder if the Donaire purse is misreported.
$2.5 million for Butler? Is that legit? If so, good for him. Moloney was on American soil, so maybe that's why?
The Yarde fight will have given Beterbiev good exposure over here and seeing as we have 2 other contenders it makes sense for him to come back to the UK and fight them here. Canelo for the money and Bivol for legacy before everything else though.
This. The money has to come from somewhere. As much as I like Beterbiev he hasn’t done himself any favors with his inactivity over the years. Also, Yarde wasn’t considered much of the threat, so $500k seems fair. Kovalev made about the same against Hopkins and at the time was a bigger name Beterbiev.
In light of Floyd's $300 million and Magregor's $100 million, a combined, $400 million, yesterday's purses were a disgrace.
