Michael Buffer..Gets paid!

Everyone's familiar with "lets get ready to rumble!!" You can tell the fighters are so hyped by Michael Buffer, even the viewers do too.

Thanks for posting that. I knew there was no way in hell he made as much. He makes a very healthy income, but not $5 million per appearance. I heard it was something like 50K for each fight announcement...still, that's plenty of money in the bank

Yea I agree about the Colonel part, hes my fav announcer even tho sometimes he gets too biased or excited, still my #1 announcer. But for me when Michael Buffer announces the long LETS GET READY TOOO RUUUMBLLLE you know its going to be an epic fight, you can feel the energy Yes, but very often the energy in in the announcement rather than the fight, you don't know it'll be epic. Even with the most confident lawyers, on average they will lose 50% of their cases. When i mentioned Buffer's (the duffer) monotonous dirge before I really meant to also point ou tthat he delivers the schtik in the same PITCH every time, must have rehearsed it a million times. I remember actually seeing him many years ago, and his face looked as if he had been pickled in a barrel of red wine. Boozers' veins all over the show. I'm fairly sure he's had as least one face lift and skin scraping or whatever the hell they do. I just don't LIKE him.

He'll get paid alot of money

lol no way he is getting 5 mill for announcing the fight. He probably gets a few thousand

I totally agree with you but I didn't have the figures to hand/ I recall reading just a few years ago that he was getting $5000 a time for utterring his crappy call at dinners, as a toastmaster. And I thought, what a damned chutzpah, seriously overpaid. He has a phony voice, artificially "chestified" and, what most people obviously do NOT notice, utters his inane mantra in the exact same TONE each time, it is absolutely DREADFUL, and to a guy likw me, with a musician's ear, it is tough to take. I ALWAYS switch that part off....all the time. Now on the other hand, Jimmy Lennon has the most exciting voice in announcing, as hass The Colonel in the play by play, I think that Dopn King was pretty smart in having thme under contract, I wouldn't be surprised if the Colonel was under a life time contract he is that good. knows everything to be known about a fightet ands rarely is more than a point or so out inhis scoring. Yea I agree about the Colonel part, hes my fav announcer even tho sometimes he gets too biased or excited, still my #1 announcer. But for me when Michael Buffer announces the long LETS GET READY TOOO RUUUMBLLLE you know its going to be an epic fight, you can feel the energy

Uhh where are you getting your #'s from? They are dead wrong, he gets 25-50k flat night rate a couple years ago. lol at 5m. Maybe Yearly he could do $5m plus whatever licensing deals he could get. and lol 100m? are you that stupid? This is how rumours start. from 2004: For a boxing card, he generally receives expenses plus $3,500 to $5,000. Corporate appearances are likely to net $15,000 to $25,000. His fee for other sports events varies. now its a little bit more per appearance, btw Ready to Rumble only made like $200m total SALES not profit so to think he made 100m is a complete joke that only morons would believe. He might of made a mil or two off the licensing fees but most of his cash comes from his appearances. I totally agree with you but I didn't have the figures to hand/ I recall reading just a few years ago that he was getting $5000 a time for utterring his crappy call at dinners, as a toastmaster. And I thought, what a damned chutzpah, seriously overpaid. He has a phony voice, artificially "chestified" and, what most people obviously do NOT notice, utters his inane mantra in the exact same TONE each time, it is absolutely DREADFUL, and to a guy likw me, with a musician's ear, it is tough to take. I ALWAYS switch that part off....all the time. Now on the other hand, Jimmy Lennon has the most exciting voice in announcing, as hass The Colonel in the play by play, I think that Dopn King was pretty smart in having thme under contract, I wouldn't be surprised if the Colonel was under a life time contract he is that good. knows everything to be known about a fightet ands rarely is more than a point or so out inhis scoring.

Theres HBO Boxing profit right there, get rid of him and produce more advertising for boxing!

I was watching an old HBO Real sports episode on him, and he was saying how he went through all of these different phrases introducing fighters in the ring, one was: "Man your battle stations." LOL But in any case those five words that dude should get pattoned whatever he's getting paid... Wow. Was the Real Sports piece recent? I missed that one. I know he had cancer but recovered. He is a staple in boxing. Probably the best.:boxing:

Dude that site is worthless, dont believe ANY # on that site, they are ALL wrong and they pick the #'s out their ass. Heres a article from BoxingScene about how much he makes even http://www.boxingscene.com/?m=show&id=3542 ~25k give or take, might do smaller events for 5k Cool!.....Thanks for the info!

I don't know if its true or not, I went on celebrity net worth. com and they had him on there. And i said DAMM!..if it is true he is getting paid! Dude that site is worthless, dont believe ANY # on that site, they are ALL wrong and they pick the #'s out their ass. Heres a article from BoxingScene about how much he makes even http://www.boxingscene.com/?m=show&id=3542 ~25k give or take, might do smaller events for 5k

Uhh where are you getting your #'s from? They are dead wrong, he gets 25-50k flat night rate a couple years ago. lol at 5m. Maybe Yearly he could do $5m plus whatever licensing deals he could get. and lol 100m? are you that stupid? This is how rumours start. from 2004: For a boxing card, he generally receives expenses plus $3,500 to $5,000. Corporate appearances are likely to net $15,000 to $25,000. His fee for other sports events varies. now its a little bit more per appearance, btw Ready to Rumble only made like $200m total SALES not profit so to think he made 100m is a complete joke that only morons would believe. He might of made a mil or two off the licensing fees but most of his cash comes from his appearances. I don't know if its true or not, I went on celebrity net worth. com and they had him on there. And i said DAMM!..if it is true he is getting paid!

Uhh where are you getting your #'s from? They are dead wrong, he gets 25-50k flat night rate a couple years ago. lol at 5m. Maybe Yearly he could do $5m plus whatever licensing deals he could get. and lol 100m? are you that stupid? This is how rumours start. from 2004: For a boxing card, he generally receives expenses plus $3,500 to $5,000. Corporate appearances are likely to net $15,000 to $25,000. His fee for other sports events varies. now its a little bit more per appearance, btw Ready to Rumble only made like $200m total SALES not profit so to think he made 100m is a complete joke that only morons would believe. He might of made a mil or two off the licensing fees but most of his cash comes from his appearances. Yeah, I was about to call bullsh*t but you beat me to it. Doesn't even make sense logistically. Who is paying him this $1 million/word fee anyway? Promoters don't even spend that much on some big fight cards in total, and networks like HBO rarely pay headlining fighters $2 mil COMBINED... but they're going to break the bank for a ring announcer? :thinking: I'm sure Buffer is doing well for himself but NO WHERE near the #s the OP made up.

Thanks for posting that. I knew there was no way in hell he made as much. He makes a very healthy income, but not $5 million per appearance. Yea he makes good money from saying his phrase at events and him and his ex-wife have their Ready To Rumble company that sells merchandise that he makes cash off. I would think for smaller shows he charges 5-15k and those HBO PPV ones he gets maybe 25-50k per show these days, plus travel expenses of course. Dude used to do like 100 shows a year but now only does like a dozen because he makes his guapo. I think he makes 1~2m a year off his appearances and the rest of his cash comes from his other businesses. Nobody is ever going to pay anyone 5m to say 5 words, that is just flushing money down the toilet, think about it. And if he raises his price to $100k than HBO will only hire him once or twice a year only because he doesnt really bring anything if he werent there. So he keeps his price so everyone can afford him.

Uhh where are you getting your #'s from? They are dead wrong, he gets 25-50k flat night rate a couple years ago. lol at 5m. Maybe Yearly he could do $5m plus whatever licensing deals he could get. and lol 100m? are you that stupid? This is how rumours start. from 2004: For a boxing card, he generally receives expenses plus $3,500 to $5,000. Corporate appearances are likely to net $15,000 to $25,000. His fee for other sports events varies. now its a little bit more per appearance, btw Ready to Rumble only made like $200m total so to think he made 100m is a complete joke that only morons would believe. He might of made a mil or two off the licensing fees but most of his cash comes from his appearances. Thanks for posting that. I knew there was no way in hell he made as much. He makes a very healthy income, but not $5 million per appearance.

Uhh where are you getting your #'s from? They are dead wrong, he gets 25-50k flat night rate a couple years ago. lol at 5m. Maybe Yearly he could do $5m plus whatever licensing deals he could get. and lol 100m? are you that stupid? This is how rumours start. from 2004: For a boxing card, he generally receives expenses plus $3,500 to $5,000. Corporate appearances are likely to net $15,000 to $25,000. His fee for other sports events varies. now its a little bit more per appearance, btw Ready to Rumble only made like $200m total SALES not profit so to think he made 100m is a complete joke that only morons would believe. He might of made a mil or two off the licensing fees but most of his cash comes from his appearances.

I was watching an old HBO Real sports episode on him, and he was saying how he went through all of these different phrases introducing fighters in the ring, one was: "Man your battle stations." LOL But in any case those five words that dude should get pattoned whatever he's getting paid...

Unless they were marketing Khan as a bad guy. That introduction is terrible! I'd boo to being born in Bolton I'd boo to being a fan of the EPL infestation of Sam Allardyce and Kevin Davies I'd boo to mentioning the defeat of Willie Limond as a strong win

Fuck yeah dude, Michael Buffer is one smart dude. Eventhough lets be honest, his job and pay are correlated to a talent that not too many people can do. Even the great Lupe Contreras is still not in Michael Buffers league. Those 5 minute intro sequences are often unappreciated and pump everyone, including the fighters up. Anyone who's been to a live event would know this.