Ward-Dawson purses announced

Ward made $900,000 for Froch, and Dawson made $800,000 for the rematch with Hopkins.

 

Shhhh, 85K, i'd take that!

 

Lol. Based on what? How many people do u think he can draw in New Haven? 1000?

 

Boxing is one of the most stupid businesses to be in. Only a dozen or so fighters are really making good money. That's crazy, given the risks.

But for a p4p top 10/15 fighter - one of the best in the world, an American too, who is fighting another American p4p fighter, on HBO, in America, in the other guy's back-yard, at the other guy's weight, to earn ONLY USD 600k is a JOKE!

Dawson should have been making at least USD 1m for this fight.

 

Come to the US and see how irrelevant boxing is.

 

It must be, if a fighter as good as Dawson cannot draw flies to ****.

Boxing is pretty irrelevant world-wide (with a few exceptions), but it's a disgrace that in the richest country on earth, a sports-mad country too, Dawson is making only 600k given whom he is fighting, at what weight, etc. That figure right there shows just how irrelevant boxing is. After taxes and expenses, Dawson will take away some 250-300k of that, in one of the biggest fights of his career, if not the biggest, sporting-wise.

 

99% of the people don't know who he is. Boxing is so beyond the mainstream it's not even funny. Even when Floyd or Pac fights, they just do a quick piece on it and get back to football, basketball, nascar or baseball. As if talking about boxing is some illness and they need to stop it before they get sicker.

 

This is a Saturday night HBO broadcast, not a pay per view. These purses look fine, although the pay gap between the headliners could be narrowed a bit.

HBO looks like they are going big on Ward, so I'm not surprised he is the overwhelming breadwinner.

 

600k...boy we better get them titles from Ward then

 

That's crappy purses and goes to show how boring and unexciting Ward and Dawson are. Nobody gives a **** about these two.

Why is HBO showing these. Where are all the guys who were preaching how HBO only picks up the most exciting fights? This is a guaranteed snoozefest.

 

Quite right. Over the last few years I have started to be convinced professional boxing should be banned/ heavily restricted and regulated.

Why?

Because it's not first and foremost a sport, so there isn't the strict correlation between how good you are and how much money you make in the ring, like in tennis, for example. No, in boxing, your nationality and your promoter usually determine how much you get payed, not how good you are. So, it's more like show-business.

Nothing wrong with show-business, but this business is bloody dangerous.

But not dangerous for the promoters, who are taking the lion's share of the profits off the work, tears, blood and brain-damage of the fighters they exploit.

That in itself wouldn't be so bad if most people in the top 100 p4p could make a lot of money out of it. Fact is, they cannot. If you're outside the top 50 p4p, you are probably either going to have another job to support your family, or you are going to just live a normal life, economically. Given the huge risks, that's just crazy.

Then, there are the robberies, the corrupt officials, the corrupt governing organisations. It's all hugely ****ed up.

Professional boxing is a rotten, corrupt, unfair and dangerous business that doesn't even pay. It's like joining the mafia and being paid peanuts for risking your life. What's the point?

Compare all of that to tennis and see the difference.

Tennis players are better paid, much more fairly paid, and no one gets brain-damage or gets killed.

Yeah, sure, there's a handful of people in boxing who are making more money out boxing than they would make in almost any other sport, but these exceptions are not enough to justify the way the business is run for 99.9%+ of fighters out there.

Professional boxing needs to be either regulated in a completely different way to at least make it fairer and less corrupt, and give fighters more advantages financially, or it should be banned altogether. This is what I believe.:deal

 

to make 1/40th of mayweathers paycheck just shows how over paid this guy is....while fighting tougher people.... dawsons pay check would be floyds if tyson, holyfield, foreman ect were fighting in his era...absolute joke the difference in pay for the risk,,,yes floyd deserves more... 40 times more? not..

 

Damn did Hopkins make more he half vs Dawson?

 

I believe that Demarco got 50k when he fought Linares, 180k is a sizeable increase in his fight purse so he should be very happy.

 

Yeah, i don't think anyone decides to get into boxing to make money. Like you said, at least in other sports, athletes are generally paid on performance. But not in boxing. It is a disgrace with the robberies, sanctionjng bodies, greedy promoters, etc.