The rematch, Carl Froch - Mikkel Kessler 2 fight chat thread - Warriors Call !!!

[Kirkland Laing]

Ringwalks are supposed to be at 11.15pm London time.

Ward is now talking about maybe kinda coming over to England and fighting Froch.

Ward's last fight against Dawson earned him a $1.365 million purse.

If this PPV is really successful (I was wondering why they'd have this on Champions League final night but when they announced it was PPV the date may turn into a masterstroke) and does a million buys, once you take off VAT and Sky's share that'll leave about six million quid for the promotion. Add on the gate, foreign TV money and everything else and that's I'd guess eight to nine. Let's say the promoters' costs and profit is nearly three and the gross is nearly nine. That leaves six million quid, or nine million dollars for the fighters to split. Probably closer to four million dollars each. That's still nearly four times what Ward made for his last fight.

If Froch wins Ward can easily ask for a 60/40 split and will probably get it. Froch winning means he's the biggest payday for Ward and Hopkins by some distance.