Do boxers REALLY get paid THAT bad?

I heard more like the top 2% earn 98%.

 

Not even considering the living expenses for months between fights and the brain damage.

Boxing is a tough way to make a buck. :bbb

 

Do you EVER think before you type and hit submit? atsch

 

Someone threw out a figure of $100 a round for these guys. You couldn't make a decent living fighting once a week off that doing 4 to 6 rounders...

 

MMA fighters are paid much higher at the lower levels, but they hit the ceiling way faster. The top MMA guys make next to nothing compared to the top boxers. But the lowest-level boxers make far less than low-level MMA fighters.

 

Yep. Glen Johnson made $12 k for his last fight with Yusaf Mack and he ain't making much more for his next fight with Cloud.

 

Charlie Zelenoff got like what $300 for his 1 minute fight with Hartley?

Rico Spider only got like $15 for his fight with Rocky

 

That probably didn't cover his air fair. In retrospect, he only needed a one way ticket...

 

to make the big bucks you need to sell tickets and ppv's/big tv rights money

Wladamir Klitscko
Vitali Klitscko
David Haye
Arthur Abraham
Floyd Mayweather
Manny Pacquiao

there the only guys that do both

guys like Andre Ward, Marco Huck and Carl Froch can get 10k in an arena but not a mega tv contract. guys like hopkins, dawson, berto can get big tv money but cant sell more than 3000 tickets.

 

In Florida where I am from a beginning pro typically earns $100 a round for four and six round fights. And usually a flat fee of $1000 for an eight rounder. Sometimes they do not even make that much. Sometimes they are paid with an allotment of tickets for the fight. The only money they will earn is based on the number of tickets they sell. I one time saw a fighter in Tallahassee Florida paid $100 and a large Papa Johns pizza for fighting in a four rounder. Here is a link to that fighter

http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=94374&cat=boxer

Like the rest of life, 99% of the wealth in boxing is spread amongst the top one percent of the fighters. Even regular ESPN main event fighters such as Mickey Ward were only making a few thousand dollars a year before the Gatti fight and needed to work full time doing road grating to make ends meet. This is the boat that the vast majority of fighters fall into. They have to work another job outside of boxing to pay the bills.

 

hell yes they do, for the most part they pay is ****. Unless you have good exposure.

 

depends what you mean. What about the guys who arent on TV or are on the bottom of the undercard.

They dont get paid well compared to other sports at all, you can only do it to what 35 safely and then after that its over. They dont get pensions like the NFL and other leagues do, there isnt as much there.

Consider what the bench warmers make in Baseball, NBA and NFL versus what the undercard guys make in Boxing.

 

:rofl

 

Ask nate campbell and victor ortiz.