By Victor Salazar
New York - A partner in Golden Boy promotions and still active fighter, Bernard Hopkins, was on hand to announce the fight between his IBF middleweight champion David Lemieux (34-2, 31 KO’s) and WBA/IBO middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (33-0, 30 KO’s.
The fight will be a pay-per-view fight priced at 49.95 (59.95 on HD). Hopkins feels this fight along with the November 21st fight between WBC middleweight Miguel Cotto (40-4, 33 KO’s) and Canelo Alvarez (45-1-1, 32 KO’s) are both worth the price of admission.
“You have a chemistry of guys coming to fight,” Hopkins told BoxingScene.com. “Nobody thinks these fights will go 12 rounds. What are you buying? You can buy fights that doesn’t interest in you. There’s a lot of negative feedback in fights that have been made in the next two months but it’s not our fights. It’s not Cotto-Canelo or Golovkin-Lemieux. These are the fights that the fans have spoken loudly about"
A report was published on different media websites suggesting that Miguel Cotto will make 30 million for his upcoming fight and Canelo Alvarez will make 10 million. Now while Hopkins couldn’t speak on Cotto’s purse, he did comment on Canelo only receiving 25 percent of the pie in the equation
“I don’t know Cotto’s deal is with Roc Nation,” Hopkins said “I heard its big numbers. I’m not going to dispute it [for Cotto's end], I know Cotto’s very happy. Both of these guys are getting paid what they are supposed to get paid whether it’s 10 million of 15 million. It’s a lot of money. These are big paydays. The split should be 50-50 but worst case Scenario is 60-40. I can’t speak on Cotto’s deal but the split is definitely not 75-25.”
