Bernard Hopkins big paydays...

I'm assessing the financial situation of Bernard Hopkins from a historical perspective.


I'm wondering from what times his biggest paydays were, when he first became a millionaire, stuff like that :think.


By my reckoning, his first big fight purse would have been RJJ. Now I get various estimates for that, but around $600k :huh? I dunno, that's the official, but I know he claims he recieved a lot less of it than that :fire.


Am I right though? What kind of scratch was he making his 23 fights before that? What was the actual amount he got (as best can be determined) from his RJJ bout? What about afterwards?

Basically, when did the dude start to make the real cash? He always says he's fighting for back pay now :bbb, so he must o' thought he come up short in his earlier days somehow.

 

the keith holmes fight and after that was early 2001, it was his first million dollar pay day, after that had made shitloads again, tito,DLH,Taver,winky,talyor

 

If I also remember correctly, he has often bet money on himself to win.

 

Really :shock:? I didn't know B-Hop was the type to actually do that.

 

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I read somewhere that he only got $50,000 out of the RJJr fight. Ive seen interviews where he says he wasnt making MIllions, but the few $100,000 paydays add up. I guess you it depends on what you consider rich. Tito made him his 1st bid purse, but Don King had options on him.

 

Yeah, I got that too. Dunno if it's true or not :?.

 

B hop deserves more money than mayweather. He is just as skilled except he takes on actual challenges and dethroned fighters in or close to their prime.

 

I remember during the Tito fight merchant or lampley mentioned bhop placed a 100k bet on himself to win. Great bet

 

What, even his earlier fights (pre-Jones)?

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Sweet. What were the odds B-Hop|Tito again?


I bet he made a decent packet off that alone :dance.

 

against tito i remember that he had a sponsor give him what i thought was a million dollars to post their website on his back during the fight. he then took that million and bet it on himself to win. can someone correct me here if im wrong? i think that was his first really big pay day. i couls be wrong though. i think it was golden palace.com or something like that??

 

:yikes



$1million or $100k?


That's some serious **** right there.

 

actually i stand corrected..http://sports.espn.go.com/page2/tvlistings/show101transcript.html .. it was a 100k but i think since he was such a big underdog when he put the 100k on himself to win i think he got back a million. it was something like that at least.i was right about the golden palace sponsor though lol.

 

Ah yeah, I thought it would be something like that, LOL.

Still a decent mint on the side.