Its never goin to be 50/50!! 60/40 in Wlads favour is fair with rematch clause of winner getting the same. So if Haye wins he gets the 60% in the rematch, if he doesnt retire.....
As if Haye and Booth are going to accept 20% for the fight! That's just nonsense. 60/40 in Vladimir's favour, is fair, in my opinion.
With regard to a Bunce reply to Inverdale, a 47 year old, undeserving and unranked Holyfield challenging the Klitschkos doesn't just expose US boxing to ridicule it exposes all of boxing to ridicule.
Go visit a gym in Berlin and tell me that heavyweight boxing is ready for universal ridicule. The big boy business is thriving. Don't even get me started on Holyfield. Do you want to see Chambers, Arreola and Thompson get another shot - they each lost every completed round (go look at scorecards). I've written about it in today's Independent. By the way Amazon has now dropped The Fixer to about six quid! Get on it my son! Adios.
Popularity doesn't mean credibility though. What does it say about the sport if Holyfield is gifted another shot? Fair enough if he earns it but a win over Botha (his first in almost three years) doesn't cut it. If he's that worthy then let him prove it and face and beat one of those you've mentioned. If he did then at least it could be said he deserved a title shot rather than got it through merely by being who he is. If he managed this but then went on to be humiliated and outclassed by one of the Klitschkos at least there would be some justification of his title shot. The Fixer? I'm guessing it's a Jane Austen inspired piece about some silly girl playing cupid and fixing up all those close to her with suitable beaus. Can't promise anything, but I did buy The Independent.