how many boxers make a million $ for a single fight

I read Martinez got $500k for Pavlik fight.

Haye & Hatton also get more than a mill per fight.

 

With trainers taking 10% of the purse. The Government getting its' 35-40%, plus training expenses. A fighter is lucky to take home 40% of what he makes including the top notch guys.

 

If you fought for Kronk back in the 1980's and you got paid a million dollars you would be lucky to brink home 200k.

1,000,000
-400,000 (uncle sam)
-330,00 (Manny Steward=Trainer & Manager took his cut off the gross)
-70,000 (Expenses, sparring partners, entourage, etc.)

That leaves a grand total of about 200k for the figher. Thats how Tommy Hearns ended up broke.

 

1. Youre wrong about UFC fighters having a greater chance of hurting themselves. Because of the one thing that makes boxing so different from MMA, the fact that you cannot go down, is what makes boxing alot more dangerous than UFC, alot more.

2. UFC might not have a disablilty pension and niether does boxing. However, boxings been around, professionally, for over 100 years now here in the states and no pension.

stop putting mma and boxing in the same sentence.

 

Right now, I'd say these are making at least a million to fight:

The Klitchkos
Haye
Adamek
Green
Hopkins
Dawson
Abraham
Kessler
Froch
Pavlik
PW
Cotto
Pacquiao
Mayweather
Mosley
Berto
Hatton
Khan
JMM

 

Remove Froch, Kessler, Mosley, Dawson and Berto and i might agree:good

 

Paulie Malignagg: 1.2M for Hatton fight

 

a trainer should only get 10% from what I here, why is Manny taking 33%

 

Khan supposedly was paid $1.1 million for the Paulie fight. But as has already been pointed out, the fighters never receive even close to the amount after tax, training expenses etc etc etc has been taken into consideration.

 

Once you have a contract with say hbo or showtime it can be in the 7 figures for mutiple fights like berto but as some people mentioned the cuts that come out
1)trainer 10%
2)co-trainer 5%
3)cutman up to 2%
4)PROMOTER who cut can be as big as the IRS's
5)manager 10% if not same as promoter
7)gym fees, sparing partners, nutritionist, fitness coach
8)if they are a US based fighter IRS and non US based pay a tax on earned income in the US for the time they are there

so realistically if a fighter no matter how popular they are walks away with 50% of there fight earning they are ahead of the curve

 

I think Paulie got 400 K or 500 K somwhere in there vs Diaz...the first fight.

 

mike tyson

 

If your smart and promote yourself you wont end up getting ripped off like some boxers have been over the years.
Thats the main reason Danny Green can fight guys like Siaca and Briggs and make over 1mil as opposed to guys like chad Dawson who struggle to get half that payday unifying titles.

 

every fighter who faces the klits makes at least 1mil $. felix sturm makes about 2 mil$ and abraham too. huck makes about 500000$