These boys were underpaid..

Wow perfectly said Tman.

 

how it should be, really. these last couple of years we’ve seen what happens when the fighters themselves call the shots

 

Fury got paid more to attend ringside

 

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?

 

One way to look at is Beterbiev and Yarde got paid 550K and 350K for 3 months of work.

 

Yeah, everywhere in Japan reported it. 337 million yen. I posted about it on the forum, actually.

 

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.

 

What a joke.

 

Now

I don't think fighting Smith will get Beterbiev be paid more than Yarde fight.