Which fighter made the most money during the 90`s below heavyweight?

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  1. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    Someone wrote this and it got me thinking about the whole 90`s decade in terms of money made in fights:
    If Eubank owned the first half of the 90`s finanacial wise who owned the entire decade in terms of money made by a fighter below heavy?
     
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  2. Bokaj

    Bokaj Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Maybe DLH? His fights against Chavez and Trinidad must have made a lot of money.
     
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  3. Bulldog24

    Bulldog24 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Hamed. By far. Thanks to Eubank’s lead.

    He was HBO’s biggest draw.
     
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  4. El Gallo Negro

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    Gotta be De La Hoya and JCC probably close behind
     
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  5. NoNeck

    NoNeck Pugilist Specialist

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    Oscar did.

    Roy also got paid. Hamed didn't earn more than Oscar. No way.
     
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  6. Bulldog24

    Bulldog24 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Hamed made over 60mill

    Oscar in the 90s not even remotely close
     
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    Bulldog24 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Naz had PPV money from both US AND UK, close to a million sells a fight for both HBO and Sky simultaneous.
     
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  8. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    Which fights gave JCC his biggest purses then? Whitaker? DLH X2? Chavez wasn`t a big draw when he fought Taylor. I think Chavez`s purse money got bigger after he beat Camacho, Hector was the biggest draw that Chavez fought until he met DLH.
     
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    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    1999 saw four major fight cards: De La Hoya-Trinidad (1.4 million buys), Holyfield-Lewis I (1.2 million), Holyfield-Lewis II (850,000) and De La Hoya-Quartey (570,000).
     
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  10. ChrisJS

    ChrisJS Boxing Addict Full Member

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    De La Hoya by far. $30m alone for the Tito fight. Something like $20m for the Chavez fights. Can’t imagine he got peanuts for Whitaker, Quartey, Camacho either.
     
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  11. Bulldog24

    Bulldog24 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Bwaaahahahahahhhahh

    more like $3m and $2m and that’s pushing it for that period, I’d still be amazed if he earned 2-3mill
     
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  12. Bulldog24

    Bulldog24 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    That’s £60m btw. Fighters in the US were making hundreds of thousands of pounds there.
     
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  13. ChrisJS

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    You’re trolling right? Leonard, Hagler etc; made $20m purses in the 80s. You can go to articles and see the purses from Oscar’s fights.

    Trinidad got a $10m guarantee and walked away with $15m for Oscar.
     
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  14. Bulldog24

    Bulldog24 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Hagler and Leonard got $10m once for their fight and were 1,000x the names that Oscar or Chavez were.
     
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  15. Bulldog24

    Bulldog24 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Most of Hagler’s purses were $200-300,000 on network TV
     
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