I'm searching for accurate numbers good examples such as Tyson/Jones done better numbers than Spence/Garcia do they promoters get all the revenue after taxes?
Every event is different. Typically, the promoters pay the costs for the event. Like with Tyson-Jones, the promoter paid for the set to be designed. The promoter paid the celebrity judges their fees and paid for their expenses. The promoter worked out a deal with the technicians/crew working the event or they came with the venue. The promoter worked out a deal with the distributor to share revenues/income. The promoter pays the fighters. The promoter pays for medical staff and an ambulance to be on hand. When there are crowds, the promoter pays for security staff to work the event. All the individuals the people the promoter pays have to pay their own taxes. What he pays them isn't income to him. His income is what remains after paying for everything. That's why there aren't a lot of successful promoters. An event can make a lot of money, but if you don't know what you're doing, if you don't make the right deals with EVERYONE involved (not just the fighters) everyone can get paid but you ... and if you don't have enough money to pay everyone ... they sue you. (LOL) That's why there aren't accurate records anywhere. Because there aren't records of every deal made for every event. Usually we just know what the fighters made, and not even that is always accurate.
Were talking about a contract agreement with the venue , television networks , per home percentage split etc.
I don't believe there are accurate records of what a promoter made per each event unless you get your hands on an IRS audit. And, even then, I'm sure some of the payouts down the line were cash payouts, so there's a question of accuracy, regardless. There is no "do they get all the revenues after taxes" answer. They don't pay all the taxes on an overall event. They don't pay anyone else's taxes. What they earn depends on each event and each deal they make for each event. Basically, there is no general answer to the question you asked. You'd have to break down the hundreds of deals involved in each event.
Could you imagine really trying to audit Bob Arum? Not enough accountants in the world. The last IRS agent assigned to Don King is in a padded cell.
That is how PPV works. The cable company and promoter split 45%. The top selling PPV provider gets a 10% bonus cut. The fighter only gets a share from the promotor only if it meets whatever was in the contract. For instance it has to sell X amount before they get a slice. The slice comes out of the 45% the promoter got.
Networks and venues are getting the lion's share because they are the entities producing and supporting the event. Athletes are next then promoters and trainers.
Dude, this isn't 1988. What cable company? PPV fights are streamed on multiple platforms by different companies in every country in the world. Every streamer makes deals with promoters. Fighters sometimes take a small purse in exchange for working out their own TV or streaming deals in their own countries, which also have to be negotiated because that cuts into the promoter's profits of making a deal with that country. There is no flat fee across the board for every PPV ... there never was. Each event on every channel, platform, streaming service to every country ... down to the establishment or home or PHONE purchasing it ... is different. 45 percent of the gross?
that is the normal cut regardless of who or what they are using to get the fight to the audience. The promotor is going to make their money after shelling out guaranteed purse money. Sure there are fighters dumb enough like Kova to put most of their earning into a PPV sell but the vast majority are purse payment then percentage base on PPV sales. If you think or know otherwise state it.
I did state it. (LOL) There is no set percentage. Every deal with every entity involved in every promotion is different. I don't know how I can be clearer. There is no "the promoter makes this percentage after taxes for each event" answer. There never was. Every event ... and every deal within every event with all the hundreds of participants involved in putting on each event ... is different. It's true. I'm not going to argue it with you because there's nothing to argue.
Any number of people can take cash payouts after events - from security working shows, to physicians, to publicists, to crew setting up and tearing down, to people running the lighting boards, graphics and music, etc., to directors and producers of the event, to the sound guys, to guys holding the cameras, to ringside announcers on an independent show that's being streamed, to announcers in the ring, to people who perform the anthems, particularly individuals doing something for one night who have other regular day jobs. Just depends on the situation. I've been to shows (televised and untelevised) where people get together at the end of the night and "settle up" before everyone leaves town and heads home or takes off to the next city for the next show. Each event is its own thing.
