Richest Fighter of All Time

No but King in particular has made his fortune in boxing, which garymcfall asked for examples of (post #8.).

 

No but gary asked for the richest fighter's and specifeid that tyson doesn't count as he's spent it all and that money made from inside the sport such as odlh promoting does count

 

Excluding Mike Tyson, Oscar de la Hoya then Evander Holyfield.

If your looking at the richest boxer on the planet right now, De La Hoya. He owns a bank and six Spanish Language newspapers, also as we all know he's got Golden Boy Promotions.

The top 3 boxers with purses, exclusively boxing.

1. Tyson
2. Holyfield/De la Hoya
3. Lewis.

Lennox Lewis has got more from his career purses than Leonard.

 

Oscar De La Hoya

 

Tunney was worth $2 million in 1928 when he retired. That certainly comes out to 20 to 30 million, at least, in today's money. But Tunney then married the heiress to the Carnegie steel fortune, so he was a billionaire by modern standards.

 

Tommy Burns was also a smart businessman...

 

Yeah but your getting off the topic, george foreman and many other boxers are very rich but they didn't make there money from boxing, he was asking for pro fighters that have made money from boxing.

 

I know. Burns was a smart businessman during his career (and later), perhaps someone like OLD FOGEY likes to tell us more about Burns, but I know 100 % that he retired as a rich man...

 

Gene Tunney may have been. He was self-educated, invested well and married into money. He also turned his Dempsey fights into gold.

 

It depends what you mean by :make there money from boxing

Arguably, all of George's money CAME from boxing.

If he'd never boxed, would he have sold a single grill ?

 

Yeah but read what the guy asked for he was pretty specific.

 

Dempsey held the world record for highest paid athlete, having earned over $10,000,000, until Sonia Henie broke it. Jack still held the record for all boxers until Ali broke it in the mid 1970s. Adjusted for inflation, Dempsey might still hold the record.

 

Agreed.

 

Probably Floyd Mayweather Jr.