Boxers earnings and how many have to work / supplement income other ways

Is it one of the smiths?

 

i thought smigga was paul smith?

 

really, as in some place like JJB?

 

That's exactly where

 

Yeah, Wolfie Smith.

 

The figures here are slightly exagerated especially at british title level, guys like Kevin Mitchell get paid quite well, their was an article once he blew £250k on a spending spree, then few months later it said he blew £100k on Booze seperately.. I'm sure him and Burns will get excess £200k each for their upcoming fight, when Degale and Groves fought for the british title they split £400k between them (£240-160k)

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepag...hell-blew-250k-on-a-giant-spending-spree.html

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/256536/Kevin-Mitchell-I-ve-blown-100K-on-Booze

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepag...0-when-he-fights-George-Groves-at-the-O2.html

 

^ i hope that figure is bull regarding mitchell. Plus we read about FW sorted his mortgaed out for a few months.

 

didn't dave Coldwell win the purse bids for it and vvarren bought them off him?

 

Something like that.. but the Purses think stayed the same.

 

I'm quite curious to know how much Brook gets, fighting on primetime saturday on SkySports, and selling out the motorpoint arena in Sheffield 10k fans with tickets ranging from £30-150 must do some good business at the live gate, he should be on £300-500k a fight, but maybe Eddie is short changing him.

Sky should pay more for boxing, they are paying an average £6 million per Premier league game, Football popularity is on another level, but still boxing has done some good viewing figures on Sky this year with Froch and Brook fights,
to think only £80k is split between the Prizefighter boxers, when you got Betfair sponsoring it, Livegate and Skysports coverage. it really should increase, other atheletes in other sports are making millions, boxing is one of the toughest sports in the world and only few boxers at the top level are making big money.

 

Smigga bang on the money literally!

Pro-boxer i know even told me that he learned the hard way shifting tickets.He took 30 from a promoter it was a small hall show & he wasn't contracted to a particular promoter at the time but friends all said 100% they would go.He was getting 1k to fight & they were £30 tickets so £900 total.

In the days leading up to the fight he had about 5-10 pull out so rather than lose face with the promoter he just swallowed the loss himself!So that was an extra deduction.It was only one of his first fights but like he said after you make your debut unless you have a real following or strong promotion behind you it's hard to shift decent amounts of tickets.

The stark reality of working your way up a card then really hits home working then training the guys that make a good living deserve it.

It can also get to the stage that even the journeymen fighters will actually at times get better paid than the prospects as not only friends may not make the fight but also an opponent!Tough way to make a living!:bbb

 

The money is absolutely shite. Believe me ... Or you, me as Richie would say. But I think the sport will now change for the better. More fighters matched against each other competitively, less need for journeyman.

TV was ****ing it up in a lot of ways.

 

no way is Brook on 300-500K, I don't even think Danny Garcia got that in a unification bout in America I would guess he would be on maybe £80,000 at best and that is a pure guess

 

Yeah he'd be on nowhere near 300k!

Gotta remember that there's a massive argument that its Hearn who got the 10,000 strong crowds in by putting on a strong undercard and getting Brook a lot of exposure.

Before Hearn he wouldn't have sold out the Motorpoint, hell he couldn't now without a good undercard and a name opponent.

 

Without a full time job most wouldn't survive a boxer I know was getting £1500 for a non tv central area title ,and my mate who's a trainer and as a well paid full time job doesn't take his 10% 9 times out of 10