It is now officially confirmed that both Anthony Joshua’s and Joseph Parker’s camps have formally agreed to a number regarding the split.
As reported by ESPN, Parker’s promoter David Higgins has stated that the WBO World heavyweight champion will receive an amount between 30-35 per cent.
“It’s between 30 and 35-ish per cent for the Parker side. I’ll leave it at that for now, but it’s somewhere close to the middle of that. Maybe after Eddie and I talk about it, we will make the figure public,” told Higgins.
Boxingscene.com reported earlier that Higgins hired Wladimir Klitschko’s solicitor who had an assignment to draw up a similar contract for Parker as he did for Klitschko in April against Joshua.
Should Parker win his upcoming unification World heavyweight championship fight against Joshua, the Kiwi will get a significant raise in revenue split in the rematch.
“I did that in the belief that the Klitschko camp will essentially have done a lot of the hard work for us. If we use that as the template, it means it will be reasonably balanced,” commented Higgins according to boxingscene.com
The Duco Events promoter confirmed that Parker will get a 55 per cent share of the revenue in the rematch and Joshua will receive 45 per cent.
“[Joshua’s promoter] Eddie Hearn has been a pleasure to work with … he’s smart and decisive and doesn’t have an ego. If we have good points he will listen, even though we are the smaller side.
“We are proud of the result in terms of how far we have got for Team Parker from where this all began. At the beginning the percentage on offer to us was minuscule,” said Higgins.
But Higgins is not done just yet. He’ll fly to the UK next week to meet with Hearn and discuss more details regarding the fight before they officially announce it.
Just like with Parker’s previous fight against Hughie Fury, Higgins wants neutrality on both sides regarding the official referee and judges.
Higgins caused a massive scene at a London press conference leading up to the Fury fight by showing up late and accusing trainer Peter Fury and the Boxing Board of getting too much leverage regarding officiating.
“My strong preference is for all-neutral, no British, no New Zealand … they don’t need to be under pressure and such huge scrutiny,” said Higgins.
The New Zealand promoter expects no problems or push back from Hearn regarding the officials but considering how Higgins strong armed the board back in September, they might not be so gracious this time around.
“I personally don’t think Eddie will have a problem with that, it will be the British Boxing Board of Control, they will be key to this,” Higgins added.
Confirmed potential dates for Joshua-Parker are March 24th, March 31st and April 7th. Possible cities in discussion for hosting the massive event are London, Cardiff and Manchester according to Higgins.
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