David Higgins says an agreement has not been reached to make Anthony Joshua vs Joseph Parker.
The New Zealander, who promotes the WBO heavyweight champion, says negotiations are still ongoing with Matchroom Boxings’ Eddie Hearn, and that “35 percent” is the minimum figure they will accept in the contract for the unification bout.
“We are at 35 percent and they’ve sort of come up to 30 percent which means the ball is still in their court,” Higgins told World Boxing News.
“We’re not going to move from 35 percent so that’s where it sits.
Higgins and Parker held a press conference last week where they promised financial rewards in exchange for videos showing Anthony Joshua being dropped in sparring.
The media stunt was ridiculed by promoter Hearn, but Higgins believes that team ‘AJ’s’ reaction proves that their claims are correct.
“What’s been overlooked is Eddie Hearn criticising our press conference but totally avoiding the point of it, which means what we are saying is true,” Higgins said.
.@joeboxerparker Sips tea, continues to read tweets & refreshes email.. Still No Offer pic.twitter.com/micG0WdtuA
— Anthony Joshua (@anthonyjoshua) November 9, 2017
“Joshua has been flattened ten times and he knows it. Eddie and AJ have skilfully avoided even going near that topic.
“They sat down with their PR and played on the narrative that we did a crap press conference, whilst totally avoiding the two most important things, mainly that Joshua does have a dodgy chin and the other being this is a worldwide unification bout for which he gets 65-35 and a rematch clause.
“I must admit they were pretty good how they handled it, but if you have Joshua saying he wants a legacy unification fight and he turns down 65 percent of net profit – plus a rematch clause – I think that would be embarrassing. And to then take a voluntary after that.”
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