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Very very rare for someone to get anywhere that for a defence and then it has to be a derby or genuine class fight.
Probly expect around a third to half of that for an average title defence.
It also depends a lot on whos bidding if you have two big rival promoters bidding to get there guy home advantage then it will push up the price a fair bit.
The winning bid for a fight like sykes v kayes would probly be more like 15 to 20 k and thats for the pair of them.
But i can understand yr frustration when someone you support works hard and doesnt get his reward but gary sykes has to do whats best for him its a short career

jonp wrote:Very very rare for someone to get anywhere that for a defence and then it has to be a derby or genuine class fight.
Probly expect around a third to half of that for an average title defence.
It also depends a lot on whos bidding if you have two big rival promoters bidding to get there guy home advantage then it will push up the price a fair bit.
The winning bid for a fight like sykes v kayes would probly be more like 15 to 20 k and thats for the pair of them.
But i can understand yr frustration when someone you support works hard and doesnt get his reward but gary sykes has to do whats best for him its a short career

do you not think that if gary wants to take this route then he should have to vacate his title? its not just about someone that i follow i was also thinking about crolla aswell surely hes got to be abit PEED off with this??

You have a point if you want to defend and have a mandatory then realy you should have too.(is hayes or crolla mandatory)
But my point was if he can get away with having a nice earner and still defned british then hes gonna take that option boxing is all about earning wile you can.

Crolla would not be ready until new year only just fought.

if u lot knew half of what u were talking about you,d be dangerous....heres a question....who is the mandatory and who has been accepted as a voluntary for gary sykes????

Winner of Johanneson & Truscott, no?

when are they fighting????

When FM sets a date.

When do you think that will be? And wot about the voluntary status ..... does anyone know about that????

I'd imagine some time in the next 2-3 months.

Sykes/Crolla was an eliminator for the title, Morris was a last minute replacement for Burns (who pulled out to fight Martinez) for the vacant title. O'Hara was a voluntary so I'd imagine a mandatory is due 2Q 2011 so that should be doable because Sykes fights in a couple of weeks and the eliminator due soon.

Who is this Hayes guy? And why should Sykes fight him?

chris11 wrote:if u lot knew half of what u were talking about you,d be dangerous....heres a question....who is the mandatory and who has been accepted as a voluntary for gary sykes????

Thats 2 questions Chris

still no correct answers on either though .....considering ure the biggest boxing fans that aint so good....

chris11 wrote:still no correct answers on either though .....considering ure the biggest boxing fans that aint so good....

I know what I'm talking about, my point is correct. Sykes will never make £32k a fight for the British title.
Secondly, Crolla should be his mandatory and he won't now have a voluntary as he is in prizefighter.

agree 100%

but not with the boss in sparring comment.

ive seen good good fighter's look lousy spaRRing & switch into a diffrent animal come fight time.

on the 2 questions i asked nobody is right....and if crolla shud be mandatory why was it not done last meeting????that dont make sense....and as for voluntary if one was agreed and proposed to the board and the board ok'd it it cud be done as his title aint at stake as long as it was 28 days after prizefighter....

chris11 wrote:on the 2 questions i asked nobody is right....and if crolla shud be mandatory why was it not done last meeting????that dont make sense....and as for voluntary if one was agreed and proposed to the board and the board ok'd it it cud be done as his title aint at stake as long as it was 28 days after prizefighter....

Tv dates!!!!

yeah , theres been a lot of them.....

Anyway who is the mandatory and who is the voluntary ? I only joined in this thread because i didnt like a pro champ being called a shitbag and i knew no way is some one getting 32 k for an average british title defence but now im curious?

jonp wrote:Anyway who is the mandatory and who is the voluntary ? I only joined in this thread because i didnt like a pro champ being called a shitbag and i knew no way is some one getting 32 k for an average british title defence but now im curious?

who called him a sh1tbag :!:

it's pretty crazy what he's doing & to earn 32 grand is probably double what he'd get for a defence of his title but way more riskier :!:
gary obviously is hungry to earn & earn fast, full credit to him. i hope he win's.

Adam1991 wrote:Sykes has ducked jonny kays for the 2nd occasion now.. He had been offered more money to fight kays than he wud get if he won prizefighter.. What's up gary? Afraid jonny would rip your british title away from you? SHITBAG!

Adam did thats what dragged me into it lol

never heard of kay's only kerry & this clown think's he'd generate more

no fighters are shitbags....adam called sykes one...thats the guy who was in one of the fights of the year with morris this year .....and undercard fight of the year last year with crolla....and can't wait for prizefighter to prove he's the best at s-feather in britain....adam lives in the world of gossip,rumours and chinese whispers...in the REAL WORLD champions need to earn money.....

chris11 wrote:no fighters are shitbags....adam called sykes one...thats the guy who was in one of the fights of the year with morris this year .....and undercard fight of the year last year with crolla....and can't wait for prizefighter to prove he's the best at s-feather in britain....adam lives in the world of gossip,rumours and chinese whispers...in the REAL WORLD champions need to earn money.....

Burns is the best super feather in Britain. Then Foster.... The rest is down to opinion

Smigga wrote:

chris11 wrote:no fighters are shitbags....adam called sykes one...thats the guy who was in one of the fights of the year with morris this year .....and undercard fight of the year last year with crolla....and can't wait for prizefighter to prove he's the best at s-feather in britain....adam lives in the world of gossip,rumours and chinese whispers...in the REAL WORLD champions need to earn money.....

Burns is the best super feather in Britain. Then Foster.... The rest is down to opinion

i have to agree paul, but you have to admire sykes for entering, would you ?