FLOYD MAYWEATHER’S FINAL PURSE $$$
Tomorrow marks the end of the 19 year career of arguably the best fighter of this era. The pound for pound King, who calls himself ‘TBE”. Floyd “Money” Mayweather has 36 minutes left in his career. Over the past few years, Floyd Mayweather has been the highest paid athlete in the world ( this year is no exception), but he will make way less compared to the fight against Pacquiao, a record of $250 million.
This final fight concludes his 30 month, 6 fight deal with Showtime/Cbs, and it will end financially the same way it began. Mayweather is guaranteed minimum $32 million against former titlist Andre Berto, who will make a career payday record of $4 Million. In 2013, post incarceration, Mayweather’s 1st fight of his 30-month contract was against Robert Guerrero. Mayweather made $32 Million fighting Guerrero, then went on to fight Canelo Alvarez , where he made $41.5 Million. $32 Million guaranteed, was the magic number for the two bouts against Marcos Maidana. So the moral of the story is, Floyd vs Pacquiao was the biggest ( financially), most anticipated fight in the history of the sport. Although it was a flop, there will probaly never be another fight to ever match up that magnitude, unless of course a rematch. Come on now, with 4.4 million pay-per-views , approx $600 million in total revenue, who doesn’t want to see that again ( me!) . At the end of 2015 Mayweather is projected to earn approximately $282 million for only having fought two fights this year.
Here are the purse numbers for the undercard bouts:
Junior lightweight titleholder Roman “Rocky” Martinez ($300,000) vs Orlando Salido ($150,000)-rematch .
Super middleweight titleholder Badou Jack ($500,000) vs mandatory challenger George Groves ($500,000).
Jhonny Gonzalez ( $50,000 ) vs Jonathan Oquendo ($50,000).
Ishe Smith ( $150,000) vs Vanes Martirosyan ($150,000) this fight will be featured during the “Countdown Live”.