Boxers Will Get Percentage Of Gate

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31117, 21 July 1966, Page 16

Boxers Will Get Percentage Of Gate

The Canterbury Boxing Association last evening agreed that offering professional boxers a percentage of the gate was the best way to conduct its business.

Mr M. V. Drury said that the association had made £4lOO when it was staging D. Murphy’s bouts. A member: On separate articles. Mr Drury: Yes—but we made money, lots of it—and did not lose. That’s the way they do it in Australia, and

they have been going a long time on it. Mr T. Wildes said that the association offered the boxer 70 per cent of the gate: in Australia, the boxers only got 25 per cent He thought the Canterbury association percentage was too high. Mr Drury and other members said that the Australian boxers got 25 per cent each of the gate—with no limit. Mr Wildes said that the association had only agreed to try the 70 per cent. It could be too high. The chairman (Mr E. G. Pocock): We have done all right. Leave it as it is for now. We have the next fight, Amarfio-Murphy, coming up. After a long discussion on the question of Stadiums, Ltd., asking £75 for the use of Amarfio, the majority agreed that Amarfio was of; sufficient quality to be worth, this sum.

“We have had cheaper boxers before, and they have turned out very dear,” Mr R. Moore said.

It was agreed, later in the meeting, that under the New Zealand boxing rules a limit must be stated in all purses offered.