RESULTS OF WBC PURSE OFFERS OF TODAY:

Heavyweight: Vladimir Virchis vs. Juan Carlos Gomez, final elimination.

Universum Box Promotion won the bid with an offer of $411,980.00, outbidding Arena Promotions’ offer of $400,000.

http://fightbeat.com/news_details.php?NW=21014

 

I'm really glad it was this low.

The heavyweight purse bids are obscenely high sometimes.

Remember the Ray Austin/Ibragimov one where it was over 2 million dollars???? WTF!!!

 

What's the "final elimination" referring to?

 

Why would this make you really glad?

 

This is a good fight. One of the few heavyweight fights on the horizon that I'm looking forward too.

 

because they are overpaid.

 

I think it means it is the WBC's final chance to keep Gomez from getting a long-deserved title shot.

 

Also bid on today and then retracted, was a Casamayor/Santa Cruz rematch.

G didn't bid and another promoter withdrew his(probably because G paid them not to). It was a mandatory rematch purse bid and now that it's not bid on, it probably won't happen.:doh:

Santa Cruz gets robbed and "Oldel" Casamayor gets to continue wear the strap that he doesn't deserve and probably get a better payday unlike Santa Cruz.

:flip: G

 

Come on.

Even if you really think they are overpaid (which they aren't), you should be happy that a boxer is actually getting overpaid for a change.

 

So you think that Ray Austin/Ibragimov is worth 2 million dollars? For 2 million dollars you could have a stacked card of lower weight fighters.

 

Do you get 'really glad' over a drought in Florida that hurts orange farmers because you think corn farmers in Iowa are overpaid?

 

I think it was 800,000....which was still way too much.

 

There was one around that time for an eliminator that I know was over 2 million dollars. Maybe I have the wrong fight, but I thought it was Austin/Ibragimov.