Forbes: Floyd "Money" Mayweather Career Earnings Top $400 Million after Maidana II

2014's most watched PPV event Floyd Mayweather - Marcos Maidana generated an astonishing 900k PPV buys with Floyd Mayweather set to have of made in the region of $70,000,000. Checkout this interesting article on TBE vs Maidana posted by Forbes on fightweek. http://blogs-images.forbes.com/kurtbadenhausen/files/2014/09/0611_floyd-mayweather-3_1024x576.jpg Mayweather Career Earnings Top $400 Million With Maidana Fight Floyd Mayweather squares off against Marcos Maidana Saturday night at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas in a rematch of their May fight won by Mayweather in a highly entertaining, majority decision. It was Mayweather’s closest fight in at least a decade. Despite the closely contested first bout, Mayweather is a heavy favorite to run his record to 47-0 with the latest odds from Bovada requiring bettors to put down $650 on Mayweather to win $100 (the line has come down from $800 on Friday). Mayweather is guaranteed $32 million for stepping into the ring with Maidana set to earn $3 million. Both fighters can earn millions more if the fight is a box office hit and puts up big pay-per-view buy numbers. Mayweather’s check is just the latest in a career of massive paydays since the formerly coined “Pretty Boy” morphed into “Money” after his split from Top Rank and its CEO Bob Arum in 2006. How much he makes and how he spends his money is as much a part of the Mayweather persona and narrative as what he does in the ring. Mayweather wore a hat to Friday’s weigh-in that read: ”Money: Just Make It.” Saturday’s fight marks the fourth bout of six in the blockbuster deal Mayweather signed with Showtime in February 2013 that will pay out more than $200 million. The Maidana rematch marks the tenth straight fight Mayweather has earned at least $25 million for entering the ring. Mayweather topped Forbes’ 2014 list of the world’s highest-paid athletes with earnings of $105 million over 12 months. He became just the second athlete after Tiger Woods to earn more than $100 million in a single year. Forbes estimates that Mayweather has earned roughly $420 million during his career from fighting. Mayweather earns nothing outside the ring from endorsements. Instead, he gets companies like Corona and O’Reilly Auto Parts to sponsor his fights and market the pay-per-view because that is where Mayweather can make a killing. Mayweather’s biggest payday was for his Sept. 2013 fight against Canelo Alvarez billed as “The One.” The fight generated 2.2 million PPV buys and grossed a record $150 million from PPV. Total fight revenues approached $200 million, including sponsorships, merchandise, closed-circuit, international TV and the record $20 million gate. Mayweather is able to cash in because he also serves as promoter via Mayweather Promotions in addition to fighter. So after expenses are paid and Showtime and the cable providers get their cut, almost every other dollar goes into Mayweather’s pocket. He banked more than $70 million for the Canelo fight. Mayweather is the world’s highest-paid athlete, but his boasts about his earnings don’t always match reality. He posted an infographic on Instagram in May on his expected Maidana earnings for their first fight: “I’m waiting for the PPV numbers to come in so I can make another $38,000,000.00 on the back-end… making it a grand total of $70,000,000.00.” He was pushing a $70 million payday for the Maidana rematch as well during the summer press tour for Saturday’s fight. A $70 million payday was and is wishful thinking for the pound-for-pound champ. The first Maidana bout generated roughly 900,000 PPV buys, according to multiple sources, and almost no upside for Mayweather beyond his $32 million guarantee. Maidana and Mayweather embarked on an expensive five-city press tour this summer to drum up interest in Saturday’s fight, but it is going to be hard-pressed to top 900,000 buys, which means another fight with a limited payout from Mayweather’s share of PPV buys beyond his guarantee. Showtime did not report an official PPV number for the first Maidana fight and is not expected to for the second one either. Even if the he Maidana rematch is not a PPV knockout, it will still make Mayweather the undisputed PPV king with roughly 14 million career buys for his 12 PPV appearances for HBO and Showtime. Manny Pacquiao ranks second on the all-time list with more than 13 million buys. The two longtime PPV stars are nearing the end of their careers, but the long discussed face-off between the two would still likely top the 2.5 million record buys set by Mayweather and Oscar De La Hoya in 2007. Time is running out though and the blood feud between Top Rank/HBO/Bob Arum and Mayweather/Showtime/Al Haymon shows little sign of softening. Saturday’s fight will be the first under Showtime’s new plan to move up the start of its boxing PPV telecasts from 9 pm ET to 8 pm. Mayweather is on board with the change. “Floyd is an innovator. If there is a new idea that can expand the boxing audience or elevate the sport or change the presentation in a positive way, he is all for it,” says Showtime Sports head Stephen Espinoza. And if a few more East Coast fans sign up for the PPV, all the better for the champ. Just means more money in the pocket of Money Mayweather. http://www.forbes.com/sites/kurtbadenhausen/2014/09/13/mayweather-career-earnings-top-400-million-with-maidana-fight/

Comments (18)

Well we know he makes a lot of money. Good for him.

11y ago

Deevel916

Sounds nice until you chop that figure by 40% that Uncle Sam takes. It sucks being a millionaire in the U.S.

11y ago

Beater_of_ass

Well I was going to say the IRS gets half of that 70 million, but we already know Floyd doesn't pay his taxes either. I still refuse to believe he made 70 million for the fight anyway, at $70 a piece and a million buys that's 70 million. For a fact we know cable companies get half so this article (and from Forbes it's mildly surprising) is pretty inaccurate and is a best case scenario that is basically impossible.

11y ago

Balloonknot

Was ODLH ever in tax trouble? Floyd gave millions to the IRS after going bankrupt well into his career. $400 million is definitely not what he currently has unless he made some killer investments very recently. Ignore those "celebrity net worth" sites, anyone whos ever taken an accounting class knows they're pulling those figures out of thin air. DLH is worth a lottt of money. DId Floyd fornicate with your girl or something? you have no idea how much either of these guys have...your an internet know it all counting another mans money and hating from a keyboard :firedevil::peeleft:

11y ago

Balloonknot

Bravo!!! that is a lot of money I cant even imagine having that much.

11y ago

5310

Um I think you have that backward Was ODLH ever in tax trouble? Floyd gave millions to the IRS after going bankrupt well into his career. $400 million is definitely not what he currently has unless he made some killer investments very recently. Ignore those "celebrity net worth" sites, anyone whos ever taken an accounting class knows they're pulling those figures out of thin air. DLH is worth a lottt of money.

11y ago

alexguiness

$400 Million is an insane amount of money. It could literally save thousands of lives, help find a cure for cancer quicker, feed the hungry, house the homeless, save some endangered animals or the rain forest. But in Floyd's hands it will disappear on the following; 1) Gambling - which Floyd only does to show off 2) Bugattis - Which Floyd only drives to show off 3) Ratchet Hoes - which Floyd only hires to knock around 4) Legal Fees - see above 5) Strippers - which Floyd only rains on to deflect his gay inner self. 6) Diamond Watches - that Floyd cannot even tell time on 7) Entourage - which Floyd has instead of friends 8) Al Haymon - which Floyd has instead of his own mind 9) Fatburger - which Floyd has instead of real food 10) TMT Tshirts - which nobody buys (unless in Floyd's entourage) But, it is Floyd's money so he can (and will) piss it away as he chooses.

11y ago

mizzlekicks

A fool and his money are soon parted. Mayweather has always been about the money, which means when its all gone on account of his gambling and over-spending, he will literally feel like he has NOTHING.

11y ago

Bigg_Rigg

This type of sh1t gets Floyd fans d1cks hard.

11y ago

MrFantastic

And how much money are his nuthuggers getting? They ride his money like crazy.

11y ago

Rip_Chudd

too bad he will will never be odlh rich. Um I think you have that backward

11y ago

DeadLikeMe

If he manages to find a way to blow through coming up on half a billion USD career earnings, he is officially the most retarded athlete of all time.

11y ago

Pretty_Boy32

I respect his accomplishments thus far but honestly, I'll be more impressed if Mayweather manages not to f*ck off the majority of his forutune once his career is over. That will literally be the most important fight of his life! This ^^^ His lifestyle habits worry me

11y ago

firstborn

11y ago

megadeth

too bad he will will never be odlh rich. Pretty sure he already has odlh beat.

11y ago

Reloaded

Why do you get off on out of the ring statistics? All that money, and he can't walk out of the house without a run of the mill, average joe, throwing a cheese burger at him in downtown Las Vegas and calling him a little b*tch. These are guys that have never fought in their lives showing absolutely no respect, or intimidation to this clown. No one respects him. And for all this skill he allegedly has, no one fears him. He's a rich coward. Money means nothing when your spineless. Your a fckn sht for brains dreamboat , you got no idea whats real kid , you think its talking sht in this forum too a bunch of schoolboys , smell the roses you fckn dipsht and go and make something of your own life , youre like a fungas gnat preaching sht to a dinosaur .

11y ago

ElMeroChingon

He's a good businessman, scratch that, Haymon is a good businessman. Thats alot of cash for Mayweather to enjoy, all from the ***** card he put up last Sep.

11y ago

TheRichCoward

11y ago