Ie/ not top boxers, not everyone can be number one. But what kind of money is someone who will likely never win a championship make. Not someone who is just a punching bag, but someone who you will see on tv as a journeyman for testing fighters to see if they are ready to make the leap into the top 10 and become contenders. Like say they got 15-0 but can never really beat top 10 competitors so they just get kinda stuck in the rankings around the top 20-15
60-100k per year like a jose ribalta, but 10 years of that, your body is ****ed you have life long dammage that gets worse as you get old, and 99% of the people who get to that level go broke.
Depends on weight class too. You'll see legit Junior Bantam etc fights go on in some street in Thailand for spare change (when the fight itself should be multi-million dollar PPV war).
Someone posted a interview with a boxing trainer on here about 6 months ago or so and he did the math with guys coming into the gym about best case scenario and the take home pay averaged to like $50K max over the life of the career at best. And this was a world champion. I'll do some basic math here, you're a domestic level boxer. You're maybe getting TV if ESPN rolls through town but at best you're fighting based on how many asses you can put in physical seats. Now, let's say a small arena can seat about 3K people. If you were to fill that Arena to capacity and were to sell tickets for an average of $30(which is pretty expensive considering I can get into an AHL game for about $10) That's $90K, take 4/5(really should be 7/8) of that away for the other boxers and the promoter and that leaves you with $18K, and that's before you pay up for trainer, cutman, possibly manager, and that can leave your ass with less than $10K easy. And now you have to pay Uncle Sam and your state their cut. So you can easily walk away with just under $5K a fight. And this is if you can attract flies to your ****. If I was to be even more harsh I would say your ass wouldn't make $20K a year even if you fought every month. Peter Manfredo who is immensely more popular than 99% of the boxing community can't make enough not to stop working as a construction worker. Rogers Mtagwa who challenged for World Titles is a roofer. So just think about someone who never gets to their level.
