Whyte wants $10M to fight Fury

Whyte lied about an injury to pull put of the Wallin fight. I have no trouble believing Arum that Whyte wants a kings ransom to fight Fury.

 

No he does not. They don’t show up for him. He does not carry PPV.

 

Mex always follow Mex he's our First Hw champ

 

There are two possible ways to look at this: Either Arum is full of it, or Whyte is pricing himself out again so that he can go fight for an interim or a regular title and try to sell it by telling everyone he’s the most hard done by fighter in the history of the sport.

 

Simple solution Bob.

Let it go to purse bids and the market will determine if Whyte is worth $10 mil.

 

It's so clear this is the endgame. Lots of posturing, because of course Whyte wants it to go to pursebids, and Fury/Arum don't for obvious reasons.

 

That's the difference between Hearn and Arum.

Eddie Hearn does not care what platform the fight lands on as long as Whyte gets the best deal possible. If Arum agreed to split it 55-45 and the fight ended up on ESPN / BT Sport Hearn wouldn't mind.

Arum/Warren however even if Fury was to make more money from The purse bid won by Hearn/DAZN are absolutely petrified of that happening so are doing whatever it takes to avoid purse bids.

 

plus whyte want 20% of the ppv which mean if the ppv generate 100m whyte get 20m out of it plus his initial 10 so 30m...he isn't worth that! What he think he is...Canelo opponents or what? and what about the champion mister whyte? he will get less than you...that's not how this work...that's not any of this works.

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Whyte - Fury will never generate close to $100 million in PPV's, though. Fury - Wilder 3 generated half of that.
I would expect Whyte-Fury to be in the UK and in that case make around 1M PPV purchases at £25 in the UK and very, very small, almost nonexistent numbers in the US.

 

What Whyte should primary want, is a negative drug test.
First and foremost. Start with that. Little things.


Then your fanny ass fake shoulder injury to heal.

 

If UKAD are good enough to question Whyte and performing enhancing drugs im not sure why they are not good enough when it comes to Fury and his history with failed tests.

 

Well I would like to see what Whyte says in response to that but the point remains purse bids will tell us how much worth Whyte and Fury has for this fight.

Personally I don't even see a 20% demand of the ppv upside being ridiculous.

Whyte can easily argue his ppv buyrates in the UK show he brings 20% of the ppv audience to the fight. I don't see how that can be disputed.

Fury v Whyte probably does 800k-1mil buys in the UK. Is 20% really that big of a demand from Whyte when his been doing 250k - 400k box office buys?

If AJ was demanding 80% of the UK ppv revenue in a fight vs Fury nobody on this site would argue it was fair even though AJ's box office revenue for the UK dwarfs Furys by more than 80%.

 

It's a big if as with the WBC's shenanigans in the past surrounding their mandatories there is no guarantee that process goes smoothly. Remember when they mandated Whyte/Ortiz? They failed to agree terms but conveniently forgot to enforce a purse bid for some reason, something the IBF had no problem doing with Whyte/Pulev only a month or so before.

Even if it goes to purse bids I expect some kind of arbitration required either Arum requests Whyte gets a lower split or Hearn requests a higher split for Whyte.

Prior to the Wilder fights that's true, Fury wasn't a PPV fighter in the UK but the first Fury/Wilder fight did 450K on Sky PPV, so I'd argue he's now just a big a draw in the UK as Whyte. Maybe bigger as that was for a fight fought in the early hours UK time unlike Whyte's big PPV fights.

https://www.*****.net/2020/09/07/uk-pay-per-view-boxing-2020/

 

BT ppv.

Shows how much 4am hits the buyrate.

https://talksport.com/sport/boxing/...-time-andy-ruiz-jr-rematch-payday-usyk-fight/

This report says AJ v Ruiz 1 did 652k buys.

The rematch at prime time UK did 1.5mil buys.

Did we ever get a reported number for Fury v wilder 2 & 3?

Wiki has the rematch as unknown but the 3rd fight they have it down as only 300k UK ppv buys.

Kind of falls in line with the US ppv buyrate being down on the rematch. That third fight wasn't a fight people wanted simply because the 2nd fight was so one sided so selling a third fight was hard work.

 

They probably view him as more American than Mexican.