“Oleksandr Gvozdyk – about cooperation with representatives of promoter companies”, — write: sport.ua
– Did you re-sign the contract with Top Rank?
– No, I am a free agent, now I no longer cooperate with Top Rank.
– Do you have any suggestions?
– Why do I need them? I have Eddie Reynoso as my manager. He gives me such fights as, for example, now with David Benavides. I sign a contract for a specific fight – and that’s it. And I don’t have any obligations to them or they have to me.
When you start your career, everyone is interested in signing a contract. Because there you have some conditions, a certain minimum of battles, the conditions you need at the beginning. But, first of all, I was already the world champion, that is, I already have a name. I live here in my own house, I know what to do here.
In fact, when you are already a world champion, it is better for a boxer, on the contrary, not to have any contract. This gives you the leverage to ask for more money somewhere, or to push your terms.
If, of course, it’s a contract like Fury or Canelo’s for 300 pounds, that’s a different story. And most boxers don’t have that, 37-year-old Gvozdyk admitted.
Earlier, Oleksandr Gvozdyk talked about his relationship with Vasyl Lomachenko.