Thread: Booth vs Burt

Anyone watch Ringside on Sky tonight?

They basically set up the two managers from camp Haye and camp Klitschko and started the negotiations live on air!

It was fascinating stuff, discussing all the stuff we've all been rumouring about for ages. The splits, the German TV cash. It was a great ambush on both managers.

Booth came out and said lets have a public negotiation, we'll do it all infront of everyone and there will be no secrets for the fans then. They discussed and overcame the mandatories that are floating around. Burt said Vitali was ready to be booked and said let's get it booked for early 2011, Booth said that when he comes to the table it will be to discuss Wladimir as Haye wants him first.

If you haven't seen it, it's worth a watch, it gave a good insight into the other side, the stuff we normally only speculate about or are spoon fed through YouTube clips.

Booth cake across pretty well again, even when defending the farce of a fight. It almost changed my tune about the fight, why Haye fought like he did and about both theirs and Audleys fight plans and how camp Haye had planned for Audley to do exactly what he did.

Didn't see it hopefully it'll pop on youtube sometime. Would be an interesting watch.

The promotion has begun!

Originally Posted by Hornfinger

Didn't see it hopefully it'll pop on youtube sometime. Would be an interesting watch.

The promotion has begun!

Mate the promotion began about 3 years ago didn't it?!

It sounded like the fight will definatley happen though which is great news for us all.

Originally Posted by 0james0

Originally Posted by Hornfinger

Didn't see it hopefully it'll pop on youtube sometime. Would be an interesting watch.

The promotion has begun!

Mate the promotion began about 3 years ago didn't it?!

It sounded like the fight will definatley happen though which is great news for us all.

....seemed that way the last time too

When they get in the ring with their gloves, the ref, the whole crowd there....then I'll believe it will happen.

The sad thing is that I feel like that for the two biggest fights going.

Originally Posted by El Kabong

Originally Posted by 0james0

Originally Posted by Hornfinger

Didn't see it hopefully it'll pop on youtube sometime. Would be an interesting watch.

The promotion has begun!

Mate the promotion began about 3 years ago didn't it?!

It sounded like the fight will definatley happen though which is great news for us all.

....seemed that way the last time too

When they get in the ring with their gloves, the ref, the whole crowd there....then I'll believe it will happen.

Boente Refused to have public negotiations which makes me believe the words on the fake contracts offered by these guys.

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Originally Posted by piye

Boente Refused to have public negotiations which makes me believe the words on the fake contracts offered by these guys.

Why on Earth would they not want to negotiate on live British television?

Originally Posted by El Kabong

Originally Posted by piye

Boente Refused to have public negotiations which makes me believe the words on the fake contracts offered by these guys.

Why on Earth would they not want to negotiate on live British television?

Why wouldn't they if they've been so upfront about the contracts

Well it's always 1 more thing from the other camp, the Klitschko's have made contracts that the other camp has signed and since that "back injury" the other side has been making it more and more difficult to make the contract.

Klitschko wanted 2 opitions right? Well the dude signed to fight Valuev and that contract had 3 options. It's all posturing from the WBA title holder's side.



I found the youtube clip of what you're talking about.

Bernd wants 50/50 straight down the middle, hows that for public negotiations? Seems like Sauerland (go figure) is holding up the fight more than anyone else.

And that was the ONLY thing he could give a straight answer (and Booth didn't disagree) on the rest was politician speak. The thing that Booth made clear was really they want Wladmir first. that surprises me a bit because I actually think he is the better fighter at the mo.

Originally Posted by Hornfinger

And that was the ONLY thing he could give a straight answer (and Booth didn't disagree) on the rest was politician speak. The thing that Booth made clear was really they want Wladmir first. that surprises me a bit because I actually think he is the better fighter at the mo.

The fact that they want Wladimir first was the only thing he said that made me happy as I am 100% certain Wladimir is going to put a hurting on that dude.

Listen the RTL vs ARD argument is ridiculous and the only reason it came up to begin with was because they don't want to give up 1 cent from the British PPV money. And Bernd said the difference between an RTL and an ARD contract is miniscule so why even bring it up if you're the other side unless you want to sabotage negotiations.

Personally I don't see why they should give up a penny of brit pay per view. People buy it to watch haye not klit. Let the brits have the brit money let the ukrainians have the german/ukrainian/russian/whatever money. But thats mypersonal opinion.

As I said before, Booth didn't disagree with a 50/50 split and seemed more than happy to talk publicly and show transparency.

Originally Posted by Hornfinger

Personally I don't see why they should give up a penny of brit pay per view. People buy it to watch haye not klit. Let the brits have the brit money let the ukrainians have the german/ukrainian/russian/whatever money. But thats mypersonal opinion.

As I said before, Booth didn't disagree with a 50/50 split and seemed more than happy to talk publicly and show transparency.

Well it's not 50/50 if they get 100% of the British PPV money now is it?

After hearing about Sauerland having 3 options, I figure the WBA title holder has 1 more fight before fighting a Klitschko all I can say is just look at Valuev whom both Klitschko's offered to fight on several occasions and he never made the fight happen. Sauerland is a bad promotional group, they just keep fights from happening. After knowing about Sauerland's options I actually have a little less blame for the WBA title holder and his trainer/manager

That was nothing new. WE already knew the biggest blocker was Team Klit wanting Haye's PPV money and Team Haye's deal with the Sauerland's.

The interesting thing was Booth saying they want Wlad over Vitali. I now doubt they'll fight Vitali unless they have already had a pop at Wlad's dodgy chin.