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Why can’t Jon Jones make as much as Deontay Wilder?
I wrote this for Bloody Elbow, but since it deals so much with the business of boxing it was suggested to me that I share this with readers of Bad Left Hook.
During Jon Jones’s recent impasse with the UFC recent being the last twelve months we have heard on multiple occasions how Jones is asking for Deontay Wilder money in order to fight Francis Ngannou, who is now the newly crowned heavyweight champion. I’ll quote him and what he had said to my lawyer. He told my lawyer he wants what Deontay Wilder was paid, UFC President Dana White told members of the media last May, an amount that he also described as an obscene amount of money. And what was Wilder paid? I think it was $30 million, said White, referring to the purse he was supposedly guaranteed for his rematch with Tyson Fury.
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