Bernard Hopkins big paydays...

Remember in that fight he had some hotel or something advertised on his back. Well from what I heard he took the $100,000 he got from that and bet it on himself. I think he was pissed he was such an underdog going in.

 

Tito was the betting favourite for that fight, but Hopkins wasn't a massive betting outsider.

 

• He made only $350 on his debut.
• His minimum for the Oscar fight was $10,000,000.
• He made $2.75m versus Trinidad.
• He made a minimum of $3 million versus Kelly Pavlik.
• He made a cool $3.8 million fighting Howard Eastman, who got $800,000 in comparison.
• His first $1 million payday was against Keith Holmes.
• He made $100,000 in the first Antwun Echols fight.
• He made $1,125,000 in Robert Allen III.
• He collected $1.25 million against Morrade Hakkar.
• His payday against Syd Vanderpool was $525,000.
• For the Echols rematch, he pocketed $600,000.

 

I've heard this a lot, but according to Wikipedia he staked $1,000,000. Don't know which is right.

 

Interesting - $1m is supported by Wikipedia as well. $100,000 seems too small, $1m too large.

 

That can't be right. He was only a 2-1 'dog, and certainly not 10-1!

 

I didn't think there was as much money in the Hopkins-De La Hoya fight as there actually was. Oscar get paid big for that. I knew he'd get a lot but not $30 million.

 

The odd's most certainly were not 2/1 Trinidad for that fight. Many boxing fans and insiders knew damn well Hopkins had a great chance to win, but the casual fans (and most at HBO Sports and PPV) thought it was simply a formality en route to a Trinidad vs Roy Jones superfight. I don't remember the exact odds but Hopkins was a big time underdog in that fight.

 

Why did he get so much for the Howard Eastman fight? :nut

 

I remember that fight being marketed as the historic 20th defense of the middlweight title. So Hopkins got paid big.

 

Nice. Thanks.