Why is Chad Dawsons purse only $15k?

Perhaps it was a deal with Haymon? "Ok if you win this fight for free (basically) you get to have another main event fight. Then if you win that another shot at stevenson." It's more like hes fighting for the advertisement, not the money. He needs exposure right now. He also needs to prove he's still got the will to box. Boxing is a game where if you show up with anything less than 90%, you WILL LOSE.

 

cuz hes not a draw hasnt fought in a while and is his fight even televised?

 

If Chad intends to continue a boxing career he needs to start somewhere - furthermore, despite it appearing a pittance compared to top level purses, 95% of pro boxers on the planet would expect to fight for less than that - it's what? A third of a year's earnings for the average US citizen and for hundreds of millions around the world would count as a once-in-a-lifetime windfall.

Seems that Haymons 'golden touch' may have deserted him in this case however - I questioned how in hell Haymon was gonna get Chad a top tier payday when he first signed.

 

Half that cash will be outgoings. Trainer, cutman, manager, taxes. It is a pittance for a recent champion.:deal

 

Hopkins, Hopkins, Ward, Stevenson and now makes only few thousands??
And some alleged boxing fans here try to justify that?? Hopefully you get huge pay cuts from your jobs.

 

since he got fined 20% that comes to $12K. after the hospital bill dawson will come out in the hole after this fight.

 

seems like it was easy money and Dawson did something that he has not done in almost 7 years.

 

It's all right dawson is just getting back on the horse, the money will come later if he's motivated.

 

apparently you aren't aware of how bad of shape Dawson is in right now. he looks like he's been sitting on the couch eating potato chips the last few months.

 

Send him some of your money if his purse offends your sensibilities.

 

This, he looked like utter ****, I'm the biggest Dawson fan on this site (probably one of his only fans), guy had no muscle tone at all, Dawson's always been an extremely fit athletic guy. He better figure out if he's gonna be serious or not or just call it a day.

 

There's a lot of ways this can work, and what is reported as "purse" doesn't always include total payment.

Some fighters, for instance, set it up so the manager/corner/etc. cuts are taken out before the purse: the IRS taxes the purse (and the fighter is responsible for the tax) even if the fighter is immediately turning a percentage over to a manager/trainer/cutman/etc.

(Some also have it set up where the fighter is incorporated so the purse money goes in and is taxed at a corporate rate and the manager/trainer/etc. are 'employees' -- and also the fighter can deduct a lot of money from taxes for training expenses, travel, even equipment depreciation if they have their own training equipment or gym. So there are lots of ways to do it.)

There is also the chance that Dawson was previously fronted some money (as an advance or as a loan) that is taken into account by the promoter but not listed as purse money for this fight per se.

 

"Haymon ' s fighters get paid"

Lmao

 

What a ****ing disgrace. **** the promoters and managers. Leeches.

 

:rofl there goes that myth.