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this must be wrong....according to the mirror newspaper witter is only getting £62,000 for his 1st title defence

i think he should be getting minimum of £150,000 for a voluntary defence of his wbc title


any thoughts on this???

I have no idea how much Witter is getting paid but £62,000 wouldn't surprise me.

To be honest, £62,000 does surprise me. I'd heard he was looking at getting about half that.

boxerbob, why do you think he should be getting a minimum of £150 grand for a WBC defence? The WBC aren't putting any money into the fight, it's up to the fighter to generate the cash.

that what i think a wbc champion topping a bill in london should get


is witter getting a share of ppv???

boxerbob wrote:that what i think a wbc champion topping a bill in london should get


is witter getting a share of ppv???

It's not like the Premiership, where the winners get money based on achievement. Witter has to bring the fans to get the money, and he's not drawing a big crowd, regardless of that WBC belt. Unfair? Probably. But just holding that green belt doesn't make him a bigger earner.

I doubt he's getting a share of the PPV. I suspect that money will be used to pay Hatton the ridiculously high numbers that Fight Academy offered him.

i know the witter fight will be on soon but is there any indication of how many tickets have been sold in london??

boxerbob wrote:i know the witter fight will be on soon but is there any indication of how many tickets have been sold in london??

Not quite sure how many have been sold, because I'm not sure how many the West Hall of Ally Pally seats when it's set up for boxing. The absolute maximum capacity is 2,500. No knock on Junior Witter, but I expect Lenny Daws to have sold the majority of the tickets, as a local lad.

It was witter biggest purse and well over the 100k mark I believe

Witter does not sell tickets and does not pull in TV viewers - hence hid purse reflects this....

He can't even draw flies in Bradford or Sheffield.

theguru wrote:It was witter biggest purse and well over the 100k mark I believe

Where did you get that info from?.