So does the average pro boxer make enough to retire after boxing?

no. The average pro makes less than Peter Manfredo, who has to work as a construction worker to keep the lights on.

 

depends, a guy like cotto or wlad will have plenty but lets say a guy arthur abraham?
Depends of course how he spends, saves and invests his money but it does seem possible.

 

A guy like ortiz received 500k vs peterson, probably something similair with maidana and the payday of a few mil vs floyd.
Along with the berto fight and the rest of his career, making a few ton per fight does seem like enough money to spend the rest of your life on if you play it smart, the average person makes what? 35k a year or something, a average boxer receives 500k per year for many years, manfredo probably only got paid on the contender and vs calzaghe and maybe spend his money wrong?

 

well, the question is already about average pros.

Well, it's not enough really. Even those who got to be champs usually ended up with less money, so imagine what average pros would fare.

 

The average pro would be lucky to make 100k in a calendar year.

Fighters that make money like Floyd, Pac, even Ortiz now, are in the top 1-2 percentile of highly paid boxers on earth.

 

You think Ortiz is a "average" pro boxer?
Granted hes not elite or a ATG but hes still champion level material.
I think the question is more directed towards the 20 to 100 or 200 ranking guys.

The average pro boxer makes a lot less than that and then has to pay his trainer and so on.
So towards the actual question.... if he lives very modest and is very active with some level of success yes but he would have to safeup wisely.

 

:good

I've been in a gym for a long time and all of my friends who's been fighting as a professional only get four or five digits worth of fight purse every time they fight considering they have decent records.. And I'm talking about Philippines Peso here.. Until now, nobody have been giving a break.. :hey

 

The 'average' pro boxer cannot retire for life on his earnings. Pawal Wolak is a good example. He worked construction during his career and continues to work construction after. A guy like Ortiz, unless he's a financial idiot (which I wouldn't doubt), should have enough to not have to 'labor'. He'll still work in some way or another, but he won't need to to survive. The problem is, most of these guys weren't accounting majors, and they tend to blow their earnings like fools.

 

Ortiz is not even close to average. Ortiz ranks in the top 5% of boxing earners in the game today, if not even higher.

Average is Darryl Cunningham, who's biggest payday of his career should have been his fight with Kelly Pavlik where he would have earned $50K which was by far his biggest payday. Average is not someone who has made a career of being on Televised portions of cards.

The average boxer fights on cards at the local civic center attended by a couple hundred people if they are really lucky against opponents that also probably did a half day shift at work prior to the fight.

 

The average boxer meaning there at 1000 pro fighters in the welterweight division for example, the fighters ranked from 400 to 600th in the world don't ever get on tv, they don't make nothing, and of course they will have to work another job. All the claims of "Ortiz is an average fighter" are so far from the truth. Half of the top 1% fighters in the world are considered "average" on esb

 

NO WAY.

"Average" guys can fight for as low as 5-10k .. even if they fight 10 times a year, that 50-100K... plus costs and such.

Not a great way to make a living

 

I thought Abraham was big name boxer in Germany, like many other European fighters.

 

No, absolutely not.

Here's an example - Troy Weida. http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=7131&cat=boxer

He sports a fairly decent (for an 'average' pro) ledger of 46-23-2. He's been fighting for 17 years, is 39 years old, and is probably at the twilight of his career with only a fight or two remaining before he has to hang up the gloves.

With 72 fights over a 17 year span, that's an average of about 4.2 fights a year. A fighter that fights at club level can expect to make $2,000 to $10,000 depending on the size of the venue, whether or not they are headlining, etc. That's anywhere from $8.4K to $42K a year of gross income based solely on boxing. This doesn't include expenses, such as paying your team.

This is why the majority of 'average' boxers have a regular job to supplement their income. Calvin Brock was a banker, Manfredo a construction worker. Unless you're fighting in the upper echelons of the division, you really can't even make enough for a decent living, much less to retire in one's mid-30's.

 

Darryl Cunningham is way above average. On he is ranked about. 50th out of a division that has nearly 1000 fighters. He is in the top 6% of his weight class. Average fighters we never see