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What happens when purse bids are enforced between fighters with rival promoters?

Posted: 03 Jun 2016, 04:30
by Bard of Boxrec
I don't pay much attention to the business side of the sport so apologies if this is a stupid question, but what happens when an ABC organisation orders purse bids for a fight between guys with promoters who never do business with each other? What are the best examples of when this situation came up?

Examples that result in

a) The fight getting made anyway
b) The fight not getting made and X then happened (vacating title I guess, but how would this be fair on the fighter?)
c) The fight not getting made and Y then happened? (not wanting to vacate title, having the powerful backing not to need to vacate, etc)
Thanks

Re: What happens when purse bids are enforced between fighters with rival promoters?

Posted: 03 Jun 2016, 05:56
by sucracristo
any promoter can bid and the one who wins the purse bid gets to stage the event.
not sure if i read the question correctly, but what contractual arrangements the
fighters have with promoters, managers, tv networks, etc, don't matter. don king
regularly used to jump into purse bids and then default on the deposits. the titles
have tightened up on that so there is more committment now. quillin used to have
the wbo at middle, and korobov was mandatory during the golden boy and top rank
feud. roc nation put in a ridiculous purse bid to get the fight but quillin vacated after.
i'm trying to remember the main events (kovalev) vs golden boy (stevenson) fiasco,
but stevenson signed on with manager al haymon after a match agreement in terms
had already been reached and supposedly haymon put the kabbosh on the deal and
stevenson also backed out of an hbo deal and signed with showtime. i could swear
kovalev tried to force the fight but then when it looked like it would go to purse bid,
meaning any promoter could win and any network could handle the ppv, kovalev
dropped the fight. i think kovalev might have even angled himself in as mandatory
for the wbc before that. in that case it was the wbc challenger backing out of a
purse bid that he had forced. haymon later set up his PBC arrangement where
none of his fighters have firm promotional contracts and several regional promoters
are used to stage the events like dibella, warriors, goosen. during the top rank and
golden boy feud, there were a few fights that went to purse bid that golden boy won
(loma v russel, maybe vanes v lara I?). i can't remember which title fight in the lighter
weights recently where a 3rd promoter won and promted the fight in past year or so.

Re: What happens when purse bids are enforced between fighters with rival promoters?

Posted: 03 Jun 2016, 06:39
by PredatorHayds
We had a British welterweight fight this year with Matchrooms Sam Eggington and Queensberrys Bradley Skeete.

Matchroom won the purse staged it on Sky and Skeete won.

Only fight that two of their fighters have met in recent times.

Re: What happens when purse bids are enforced between fighters with rival promoters?

Posted: 03 Jun 2016, 13:52
by world ranked
Both B & C happened it Canelo-GGG situation