Calzaghe earns career-high $10 Million purse for Jones fight

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2008/11/16/joe-calzaghe-earned-10m-from-jones-fight-91466-22266911/

For everyone on ESB worried about the PPV sales and Joe's supposed lack of marketability, you can rest easy now. The undefeated Welsh champion just scored his largest career payday for last weekend's fight.

As I said in another thread, Joe is only now beginning to realize his earning potential. PPV sales are nice, but what matters is the bottom line. And the bottom line for Calz is that he made more money for his masterclass against Roy Jones than he has ever made before for one bout.

When you are able to pull in $10 million for one night of work, that's hard to step away from, even when you're an aging champion. Further, if Joe was able to take in this amount in a half-sold-out Madison Square Garden and with half the expected PPV buys, imagine what he could make at a jam-packed Milenium Stadium and working with Sky Sports PPV, particularly after further raising his profile via the 24/7 series and through his decisive victory over Jones?

It is clear now why everyone from Jermain Taylor to Chad Dawson to Carl Froch to Mikkel Kessler to Bernard Hopkins is calling out Calzaghe. They all want to become the next $10 Million Man, and the best way, they think, to achieve that goal is to make a fight with the 'unmarketable' Joe Calzaghe.

I don't think Joe will be able to walk away from another such payday. For a guy who has fought in a good deal of obscurity for much of his career, the chance to give the home fans a send-off while also collecting another gigantic check is likely to prove irresistible.

 

That's what I heard as well. Expected: 500K. Actual: 225K or so, from what I heard. I'd have to look it up.

 

Thanks for pointing that out, I forgot to mention this.

Good for Roy. He fought hard and bravely. I'm glad he got paid well. :good

I also think it will be tough for Roy to walk away from these kinds of paydays. I don't know if he can make the same figure again, but even half of that is a heck of a lot better than most other ways of trying to earn a living.

 

Haunting, Holy -- I can't help you guys out on your questions.

Anyone else have the answers?