How a lot cash did boxing legend Floyd Mayweather generate on Pay Per View all through his outstanding boxing profession?
World Boxing Information has crunched the numbers concerning the precise takings Mayweather banked with out taking something away to make purse funds or occasion prices.
Mayweather amassed an unbelievable amount of money all through his profession and continues totaling at the very least eight figures each time he steps into the ring. It will proceed on August 24 when he fights John Gotti III in a rematch on Mexican soil.
Floyd Mayweather’s profession PPV earnings
There’s lengthy been an insistence from his staff or the media that ‘Floyd Mayweather is boxing’s first billion-dollar man.’ Nicely, WBN can reveal that that is undeniably not the case. Mayweather is at the very least the game’s first Billion-Greenback Man thrice over in the event you take all the cash from each sale of his PPV fights and add it collectively.
Floyd Mayweather made $1.8 billion in gross sales in america alone. His three billion on the worldwide field workplace proves he’s on his personal within the paid platform stakes. Pay Per View buys that includes the five-weight king since his debut on the platform in 2005 at a median buy worth of $75; you’d even come to numbers north of $1.8 billion in US income.
Then, in the event you take into account Mayweather’s different profession purses and contract elements, the quantity simply surpasses the two-billion-dollar mark in america alone. Worldwide gross sales of each occasion in a whole bunch of nations definitely exceed three and probably into 4, relying on how deep you delve.
It’s fairly a dumbfounding statistic, and Mayweather has at the very least one billion in his pocket. Floyd’s Showtime contract alone revamped one billion {dollars} from 14 million complete buys [if you include Conor McGregor].
Floyd Mayweather – Whole United States PPV Gross sales:
Jun 25, 2005 – Arturo Gatti vs. Floyd Mayweather (HBO 340k)
Apr 8, 2006 – Floyd Mayweather vs. Zab Judah (HBO 375k)
Nov 4, 2006 – Mayweather vs. Carlos Baldomir (HBO 325k)
Might 5, 2007 – Oscar De La Hoya vs. Mayweather (HBO 2.4m)
Dec 8, 2007 – Mayweather vs. Ricky Hatton (HBO 920k)
Sep 19, 2009 – Mayweather vs. Juan Manuel Márquez (HBO 1.06m)
Might 1, 2010 – Mayweather vs. Shane Mosley (HBO 1.4m)
Sep 17, 2011 – Mayweather vs. Victor Ortiz (HBO 1.25m)
Might 5, 2012 – Mayweather vs. Miguel Cotto (HBO 1.5m)
Might 4, 2013 – Mayweather vs. Robert Guerrero (Showtime 1m)
Sep 14, 2013 – Mayweather vs. Canelo Álvarez (Showtime 2.2m)
Might 3, 2014 – Mayweather vs. Marcos Maidana (Showtime 900k)
Sep 13, 2014 – Mayweather vs. Marcos Maidana II (Showtime 925k)
Might 2, 2015 – Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao (HBO/Showtime 4.6m)
Sep 12, 2015 – Mayweather vs. Andre Berto Mayweather (Showtime 400k)
Aug 26, 2017 – Mayweather vs. Conor McGregor (Showtime 4.3m)
Mayweather’s money-making numbers
The numbers are staggering. Most of which may add one other 500 to 800k for worldwide distribution. No one has been producing these numbers for the reason that days of closed-circuit TV with out the house field workplace angle.
For those who take into account that Mayweather took a number of breaks throughout his tenure, some lasting over a 12 months, the ultimate complete may have been over 5 billion {dollars}. Mayweather is and was cash, irrespective of the way you take a look at it.
Subsequent month, on the age of 47, Mayweather will do it once more, realizing that he solely has to vow the followers a battle to place one other large test within the secure. Regardless of his ‘Heist Tour’ failing to materialize, Mayweather doesn’t want it. He can decide and select when and who he fights and nonetheless doesn’t bat an eyelid when contemplating the figures.
Mayweather earns a million {dollars} for many of his press convention appearances, making him far and away probably the most profitable boxer ever.
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