Why do people say Pryor ducked Leonard

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you dont see my post. is that right?

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Wow, the anti-Leonard dumb**** is strong on this thread again. As with Paquiao-Mayweather and "oh, he should have offered more than 40 million he was going to make a hundred!"

The first question one must ask himself is "have I made that much money before?" If the answer is "no, nowhere close", Pryor and Manny, maybe the proper response is "where do I sign????"

Manny was fighting for a couple of million at that time, and Pryor for a couple of hundred thousand, they both would have more than doubled their highest purse. And as Mayweather says "I'm a businessman, of course I tried to lowball him...he should have just made a counteroffer instead of not returning my phonecalls."

As Don King said to a tearful Ricardo Mayorga when he found out ODLH was making 20x his purse, "a fighter doesn't get what he deserves, he gets what he negotiates for."

You win the fight, Pryor and Paquiao, you get the lions share in the rematch.

 

I, see not one of you guys have mentioned mike trainer, rays adviser here. This guy was called the toughest negotiator he ever met by bob arum. king, duvas could not beat this guy either!! incidentally, ray made a record purse for a pro debut, 40,000 dollars too. who was pryor to dictate anything again?

 

He wasn't in a position to dictate or play hardball for anything. Unless you were a high profile name or had something he wanted, Leonard always made considerably more money than his opposition during that period. Pryor wasn't any kind of name/attraction, didn't hold a belt that was of any significance to Leonard and had done absolutely nothing to actually warrant such a shot in the first place.


Like I've said before, Pryor was more bark than actual bite. He turned down the same amount of money to fight Duran just months after rejecting the Leonard offer (I've also read he turned down a fight with Howard Davis Jr, though I can't confirm that.) This was all well documented at the time, though obviously not mentioned during that Legendary Nights episode that every dense casual newb likes to cite.

Wait, what happened to the 8-10 million that he was so quite clearly in a position to earn against Pryor two years earlier, numbers man?

Leonard only made huge sums of money against genuinely big names in genuinely massive fights in the early 80's, you f*cking pleb. If you seriously want to believe that Pryor was a big name, on the same level as a Hearns or a Duran (60-40 split :nut) then that's a problem for you and your shrink to discuss.