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Ward’s purse $6.5M for Kovalev rematch

By Daily Sports on June 18, 2017

Andre “SOG” Ward will be getting a $6.5 million purse guaranteed in the biggest payday of his 13-year pro career in his rematch Sunday against former light heavyweight champion Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev.

Ward will be defending his IBF/WBA/WBO light heavyweight titles that he won in a controversial fight against Kovalev last November.

For his part, Kovalev will be getting a percentage of the pay-per-view revenue from HBO PPV. Kovalev, 34, will be getting 75% of the income that his promoters at Main Events are bringing in.

It’ll be a percentage of the PPV and the overall ticket sales. However, with a lot of the attention from the boxing pubic now on the Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Conor McGregor fight, the pay-per-view numbers for the rematch between Ward and Kovalev may not be high enough to reach the 160,000 buys the fight pulled in last November on HBO. Ward’s minimum purse of $6.5 million looks very good compared to what Kovalev could wind up with.

This is the second time that Ward has gotten the better deal than Kovalev. For their previous fight, Ward was paid $5 million in guaranteed money compared to Kovalev’s $2 million. Kovalev was the IBF/WBA/WBO light heavyweight champion and Ward just the challenger.

Ward ended up with the far better deal of the two compare to Kovalev. Beyond that, Ward ended up winning a controversial 12 round unanimous decision by the scores 114-113.

Photo shows Ward/ Kovalev face-off.

Source Daily Sports

Posted June 18, 2017