Floyd the Master Businessman in Boxing

He will be broke like Tyson in a few years.

 

Mayweather ****ed up royally in the De La Hoya fight negotiations. I believe he ****ed in the Hatton fight negotiations as well. Hopefully, he has learned from these experiences. If Mayweather wants to be a master business man, he has to learn the business. These experiences may have taught him a lot. The gambling and foolish spending needs to stop as well.

 

Hopefully he doesn't end up broke. Which is likely.

 

he will be broke quicker than tyson

beleed dat!

 

That Hoya fight probably netted well over $100M. Mayweather only received about $20M. Considering that fight does nowhere near as well as it did without Mayweather, Floyd left a lot of money on the table. Imagine if Floyd had sacrificed some guarenteed money in order to fetch a much larger % of the buys over 1.4 mill. He could've received more than double what he made for that fight.

Against Hatton, Hatton supposedly kept all the U.K ppv money. That's a huge blunder. Hatton had never cracked 400k on PPV in the U.K. The U.K ppv record before that fight was around 700k. Mayweather's fight with Hatton did 1.2 mill buys in the U.K. Hatton's fight with Pac did under 400k. Mayweather clearly left a lot of money on the table on that one. He seems to have learned though. He made ton of money against Marquez because he tied most of his compensation to ppv buys. It looks like he did the same for the Mosley fight as well.

 

taking care of his problems with the IRS is a good start. Hopefully he succeeds with his venture and aims at giving the fans the match ups they want without being too greedy like the current promoters and managers we have.

 

Mayweather isn't a dummy. However, sometimes you need to get burnt in order to learn. Everyone gets on him for his slave wages comment. However, I think that's one of the best comments he ever made. That showed me he wasn't simply looking at how much he would be making, but how much he should be making. That's what a good businessman does.

 

A dude who was in debt to the IRS ALREADY!!!??!?! And had to come back to pay it off!?!?!

Yeah.. brilliant.

What a goddamn ******.

 

Boxing is a sport the thrives on the amount of people that watches it. The participants knows the dangers of the sport and should anything happen to them is mainly their responsibility. Factor in that they need to study every contract they get into to protect their interests.

Start prioritizing the whims of the fighters before the consumers and you have the perfect ingredient to killing a sport.