Couple of reasons you're a bottom of the barrel poster, on some many ignore lists:Enlightened-One wrote:The difference between me and other posters, is that I make it abundantly clear when I'm expressing a gut instinct, whereas others claim they're citing fact unless challenged. So I won't apologise for my take on things.Tarkus wrote:You have problem drawing conclusions from facts. K2 asked for purse bid early exactly because they wanted to make it for the HBO date they already had, 10 December. It is Haymon that wanted to drag the process so that GGG misses 10 Dec date and is not able to generate large sum of money for the bid. Noone knows when and if GGG gets a next date or a contract from HBO. It should be obvious that if K2 wanted to prolong the negotiations they would not ask for an early bid. Now that WBA drag the bid situation infinitely as usual it is far too late to have it on Dec 10. 7 weeks is not enough to make a fight of this magnitude, is not this obvious?Enlightened-One wrote:My gut instinct tells me that it’s in K2’s best interests to postpone the bout until next year, due to HBO’s currently limited budget, which represents a risk in them losing the WBA purse bid to Showtime/Haymon/DiBella.
So K2 may try attempt serious contract negotiations for a 2017 bout when HBO’s boxing budget has been replenished.
The problem is… will the WBA play along with Loeffler’s stance or will they announce purse bids on Friday?![]()
Considering Loeffler requested the purse bid process prematurely, twelve days before the stipulated contract negotiation deadline (as they wanted wanted to impose the WBA's 25% purse split ruling on Jacobs), I find it intriguing that the K2 chief is now saying the following:
“A fight of this magnitude needs a long buildup in order to promote it properly, so we decided it’s too short to do it on Dec. 10, so we’re targeting 2017 for that fight.”
Methinks that politics is involved in this decision.
Also if it is such a "fact" that GGG vacates if Haymon wins then why dont they just win it, 25% or not and get a vacant belt? There is no way GGG vacates titles, he is not Peter Quillin.
Second, Loeffler knew the contract negotiations and purse bid deadlines more than 30 days ago and the WBA only extended it by five days. He could have petitioned the WBA to alter this schedule to take into consideration HBO's 10th December date or ask them to allow an interim voluntary defence. Didn't Jacobs ask for something similar?
Third, everyone involved in the sport of boxing knew the WBA's timescale and purse split rules. So Loeffler must have anticipated Jacobs asking for more than 25%, because everybody that commented on the matter did.
Fourth, Loeffler could have asked the WBA to allow Jacobs to receive his requested 40% split to allow the purse bid to take place early, since GGG's main high profile opponents all received an average of 43%.
Fifth, Showtime had already announced that they would aggressively pursue the rights to televise the Golovkin-Jacobs bout, meaning that there was plenty of money for the purse bid from Haymon's side of the negotiating table.
Sixth, Haymon hasn't been given the opportunity yet to win the purse bid, so your question is redundant.
All the boxing scribes are saying that GGG has an exclusive contract with HBO, as per Kovalev and Pacquiao... and look what happened with those fighters. Sergey had to abandon his mandatory challenger status for Stevenson's WBC belt and Pacquiao was released from his HBO contract for refusing to televise his next bout. Read about those situations and surely you should be able to recognise the parallels.
1. Always lying, like Loeffler calling for purse bids 12 days before due. It was actually 5, after 4 weeks of getting nowhere in negotiations. It's not even 2 weeks later and you hear this from team Jacobs:
http://www.ringtv.com/468769-jacobs-won ... s-trainer/
2.Being clueless on boxing and all around, like your comical purse bid theories. Maybe brush up on grade school math before spreading your wisdom here?