Canelo-Jacobs / May 4th Las Vegas / WHO WINS (poll)

[powerpuncher]

I was just thinking, Canelo can now take as much risk as he wants because he is locked in to a contract while making a ton of money. He can lose his next ten fights and he will still make his money. That’s the best situation a fighter can be in. He can take all the risk without having to risk his money.

I'm pretty certain the contract doesn't quite work like that, it's based on performance and ratings. So he can't fight 10 Rocky Fieldings to steal the money, because obviously the big names like Jacobs bring in the subscribers, and at the same time if he suffers a bunch of bad losses his drawing power disappears. It's worth hundreds of millions but not guaranteed.

Is it not guaranteed? Maybe it’s not, but I never heard anything that it wasn’t

[Fenster]

I was just thinking, Canelo can now take as much risk as he wants because he is locked in to a contract while making a ton of money. He can lose his next ten fights and he will still make his money. That’s the best situation a fighter can be in. He can take all the risk without having to risk his money.

I'm pretty certain the contract doesn't quite work like that, it's based on performance and ratings. So he can't fight 10 Rocky Fieldings to steal the money, because obviously the big names like Jacobs bring in the subscribers, and at the same time if he suffers a bunch of bad losses his drawing power disappears. It's worth hundreds of millions but not guaranteed.

Is it not guaranteed? Maybe it’s not, but I never heard anything that it wasn’t

I highly doubt they paid him $365 million to bank, let alone without any say in his competition, that would be insane. For one, the deal came with Oscar providing 12 shows a year (basically they signed the GB stable) and Canelo's pay is based on subscribers, so he can make more than $33 million per fight (the minimum divvy up).

There's no way Canelo suffers a couple of bad losses then carries on banking $33 million per fight year after year against any Tom, Dick or Rocky. Just the same as there's no way he got that money without DAZN having the final say on his op. All networks have power over what matches they'll accept.