What isnt right with these salaries?

July 31st PPV

Marquez ($1 million) vs. Diaz ($540,000)
Daniel Jacobs ($200,000) vs. Dmitry Pirog ($50,000)
Robert Guerrero ($75,000) vs. Joel Casamayor ($50,000)
Linares ($30,000) vs. Juarez ($45,000)
Sakio Bika ($18,000) vs. Jean Paul Mendy ($12,000)

Once again HBO tries to manufacture stars. Jacobs is one of the myriad of guys they have adopted over the past 18 months. And of course they shower him with way too much cash.

Nice to see Marquez is getting payed well after all those years of hard work.

Jacobs should have gotten about 75,000 and the remainder should have been split amongst the other undercard fighters.

Ali_1748 wrote:

Nice to see Marquez is getting payed well after all those years of hard work.

Hear! Hear!

captainanddew wrote:

Once again HBO tries to manufacture stars. Jacobs is one of the myriad of guys they have adopted over the past 18 months. And of course they shower him with way too much cash.

Can you guess who Jacobs is managed by?

I know who he is promoted by.

Al Haymon

I know the manager as well.

It's a combination of having the right manager,promoter, and nationality.

Ali_1748 wrote:

Al Haymon

No doubt!

Remember in early 2009 when HBO started their marketing a list of guys
HBO sure can pick em

1-Ortiz-quit in a fight
2-Arreola-fat, lazy, beaten down by Vitali, and lost to Adamek
3-Jacobs-KO'd
4-Diaz-beaten by Paulie twice and Marquez
5-Kirkland-locked up
6-Berto-fighting nobodies
7-Haye-ducking both Klitschkos
8-Dawson-boring fights and now a loss
9-PW-controversial decision over martinez; jumpgate; and alot of ducking

Man they sure can pick em can't they!!!

And before anyone says Diaz beat Paulie in the first fight, recognize that was a gift from hometown judges

captainanddew wrote:

Remember in early 2009 when HBO started their marketing a list of guys
HBO sure can pick em

1-Ortiz-quit in a fight
2-Arreola-fat, lazy, beaten down by Vitali, and lost to Adamek
3-Jacobs-KO'd
4-Diaz-beaten by Paulie twice and Marquez
5-Kirkland-locked up
6-Berto-fighting nobodies
7-Haye-ducking both Klitschkos
8-Dawson-boring fights and now a loss
9-PW-controversial decision over martinez; jumpgate; and alot of ducking

Man they sure can pick em can't they!!!

Haye wasn't really picked his mouth forced HBO to add him.

I dont think Haye has been on HBO at all

Barrett, Valuev, Ruiz all on PPV

And before that fought on Showtime vs Enzo

But still, HBO needs to stop this practice of trying to manufacture stars

Haye hasn't been on the network at all, HBO included him on that list because at the time he was scheduled to face Wladimir in June and HBO were going to televise.

I know he hasn't fought on HBO but they did include him in their marketing in early 2009. It was around February that they started all that bullshit about the new faces of boxing or the next generation (something like that).

captainanddew wrote:

And before anyone says Diaz beat Paulie in the first fight, recognize that was a gift from hometown judges

I actually thought it was a fair decision.

I watched the fight twice and I scored it easily for Paulie both times. But I've been wrong many times before!!!!

The reason the first fight was so controversial was because of Paulie's prediction the day about the choice of officials, then there was Gale Van Hoy's scorecard on the night and of course Paulie's rant in the post fight conference.