Forbes Pound-4-Pound Top 10 Moneymakers

The order is off a bit, Klitschko is the highest moneymaker in boxing after Floyd & Manny.. Also, you missed out Joshua.. Wasn't me, it was Forbes. http://www.forbes.com/sites/joshkatzowitz/2016/09/01/boxings-top-10-pound-for-pound-moneymakers-canelo-still-no-1-crawford-falls-errol-spence-rises/#43f5ea469040

Shouldn't danny garcia be on the list?

whoever wrote this genuinely knows nothing about boxing.

1. Canelo Alvarez (previously No. 1): Though we haven’t been a fan of the recent opponents he’s fought – pretty much anybody not named Gennady Golovkin – Alvarez is still the biggest draw in the sport. As evidenced by the fact Alvarez drew more than 50,000 fans to AT&T Stadium and close to 300,000 PPV buys, generating a domestic gate of $20 million, to watch him fight the virtually unknown Liam Smith. It’s unclear who Alvarez will fight next, but his fans likely will come along for the ride. 2. Gennady Golovkin (previously No. 2): He made a nice payday in knocking out Kell Brook in the U.K. – it was reportedly somewhere in the $3-5 million range – and he’ll likely earn plenty of money if he can fight Daniel Jacobs in the early part of next year. Oscar De La Hoya claims he’s made Golovkin an eight-figure offer to fight Alvarez and that Golovkin hasn’t accepted. But if that was, say, a $10 million offer, it makes sense for Golovkin not to accept, because he’d likely make exponentially more money by negotiating a percentage of the gate rather than a set fee. 3. Andre Ward (previously No. 4): A win on Nov. 19 vs. Sergey Kovalev would keep him in this spot on the list and could earn him the title of “best boxer in the world.” 4. Sergey Kovalev (previously No. 5): A win on Nov. 19 vs. Andre Ward would move him into Ward’s spot on this list and could earn him the title of “best boxer in the world.” 5. Wladimir Klitschko (previously No. 3): Although Tyson Fury is still the lineal champion, Klitschko, even at 40 years old, is still the moneymaker of the heavyweight division. He’s out for the rest of the year with an injury, but a matchup against Anthony Joshua in the early part of 2017 would be a huge event in Europe. 6. Keith Thurman (previously No. 7): He’s signed for a big fight against Danny Garcia that could be shown on primetime CBS. He most likely will earn another paycheck in the same range as the $1.4 million purse he took while beating Shawn Porter earlier this year. 7. Deontay Wilder (previously No. 6): He hasn’t fought since the summer because of injuries suffered while knocking out Chris Arreola, but considering Wilder was supposed to earn $4.5 million in a fight vs. Alexander Povetkin before Povetkin failed a drug test, Wilder’s potential moneymaking skills are still impressive. 8. Terence Crawford (previously No. 8): Returning to HBO on Dec. 10 after a $1.3 million payday vs. Viktor Postol this summer, Crawford will face the sturdy John Molina Jr., who’s coming off an upset win of Ruslan Provodnikov. Crawford’s PPV numbers weren’t good vs. Postol – reportedly, about 50,000 people bought the fight – and it’ll be interesting to see how an HBO main event featuring Crawford will fare against a Dec. 10 Showtime card that will package strong fights in Jesus Cueller vs. Abner Mares and Jermall Charlo vs. Julian Williams. 9. Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez (previously unranked): In his first HBO main event vs. Carlos Cuadras in September, Gonzalez showed a little vulnerability but put on a fantastic fight in order to keep his undefeated record intact. He also made a $400,000 payday. 10. Errol Spence (previously No. 9): After earning $250,000 in a spectacular knockout of Leonard Bundu in August, Spence doesn’t have a fight set for the early part of next year. But he’s perhaps the most exciting prospect in the sport, and the last time he was featured on a national TV broadcast, the ratings were exceptional. The order is off a bit, Klitschko is the highest moneymaker in boxing after Floyd & Manny.. Also, you missed out Joshua..

300k ppv vs 150k ppv dum**** Alvarez's event was priced at $65; Golovkin's event was priced at $50. Using your own numbers, that's $7.5m from the Golovkin event versus $19.5m from the Alvarez event. Even on Loeffler's lie, Alvarez's worst event is still 2.5 times bigger than Golovkin's event.

lol, Alvarez objectively does four times the business that Golovkin does, yet he's supposed to split the pot 2:1 and give Golovkin he full 6 pounds? gtfoh 300k ppv vs 150k ppv dum****

No manny, chavez jr or khan.. Thread/fail

... Andre Ward made $2m for his fight against Paul Smith on BET, $1.85m to fight Barrera on HBO, and a rumored $850k for the Brand fight (the discrepency in the numbers is odd; get the impression that Ward possibly picked up a share on the event as a promoter but who knows), so not sure what you're talking about. So how long have you been Andre's publicist? Or are you just gullible? Just because a promoter tells Rafael that the fighter will make $850K and Rafael prints it doesn't make it true.

lol people forgot about Pac?He's probably gonna make in his next fight more than canelo made in his whole career... lol, for an event that no one is going to tune in for? gtfoh

Forbes is way off with #3 for Ward and #4 for Kovalev. Ward was fighting for peanuts on BET not long ago, and HBO paid only $300K license fee for his last fight. He's not making $. Same for Kovalev. Fights in empty arenas all the time. Small-time promoter Main Events can't generate any publicity or ticket sales. Kovalev hasn't made more than $750K for a fight in his entire career. Andre Berto makes more money than both of them. ... Andre Ward made $2m for his fight against Paul Smith on BET, $1.85m to fight Barrera on HBO, and a rumored $850k for the Brand fight (the discrepency in the numbers is odd; get the impression that Ward possibly picked up a share on the event as a promoter but who knows), so not sure what you're talking about.

Where's joshua

And MMA guys keep saying boxing is dead when the majority of the MMA 'stars' don't make that much.

lol people forgot about Pac?He's probably gonna make in his next fight more than canelo made in his whole career...

Lol purses in 2016 sucks ,only Canelo made big Money and GGG decent.no Cotto and Pacman lol

3. Andre Ward (previously No. 4): A win on Nov. 19 vs. Sergey Kovalev would keep him in this spot on the list and could earn him the title of “best boxer in the world.” 4. Sergey Kovalev (previously No. 5): A win on Nov. 19 vs. Andre Ward would move him into Ward’s spot on this list and could earn him the title of “best boxer in the world.” Forbes is way off with #3 for Ward and #4 for Kovalev. Ward was fighting for peanuts on BET not long ago, and HBO paid only $300K license fee for his last fight. He's not making $. Same for Kovalev. Fights in empty arenas all the time. Small-time promoter Main Events can't generate any publicity or ticket sales. Kovalev hasn't made more than $750K for a fight in his entire career. Andre Berto makes more money than both of them.

Alvarez-Khan did $7m at the gate in Las Vegas, with nearly $40m on PPV (nevermind any talk of the Mexican TV money or any outside revenues). Heck, Alvarez-Smith ended up doing $5m at the live gate, with another $20m in PPV revenue, and that was considered a flop (fight still ended up doing a monster rating, live and on tape delay, in Mexico). Golovkin's biggest event in his life was Golovkin-Lemieux (Matchroom Sport paid up the fee to bring over Golovkin for their event, and there's no doubting that). Taking Tom Loeffler's word as gospel, Golovkin's sole PPV did $7m on PPV, with another $2m at the gate (I doubt that K2 earnestly made all that much money off of a fight that aired at 4am in Germany). All of the information isn't available, but there's enough info out there to gauge where the relative starpowers actually lie, and 2:1 isn't it. Thanks for the info. We'll see how it plays out I guess. Their relative earnings aren't the sole determining factor, of course, but it is food for thought.

Anthony Joshua https://m0.joe.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/05195723/joshua-2-combo.gif

What about Jacobs? I heard he was making $1.5 million for fighting "Quillens"

"These are my favorite fighters"

Where do you get the 4x figure for Alvarez from by the way? Not that I'm contesting it, in fact if you take account of the Mexican revenue it could be substantially more (though balanced somewhat by GGGs international revenue) - just genuinely curious. Alvarez-Khan did $7m at the gate in Las Vegas, with nearly $40m on PPV (nevermind any talk of the Mexican TV money or any outside revenues). Heck, Alvarez-Smith ended up doing $5m at the live gate, with another $20m in PPV revenue, and that was considered a flop (fight still ended up doing a monster rating, live and on tape delay, in Mexico). Golovkin's biggest event in his life was Golovkin-Lemieux (Matchroom Sport paid up the fee to bring over Golovkin for their event, and there's no doubting that). Taking Tom Loeffler's word as gospel, Golovkin's sole PPV did $7m on PPV, with another $2m at the gate (I doubt that K2 earnestly made all that much money off of a fight that aired at 4am in Germany). All of the information isn't available, but there's enough info out there to gauge where the relative starpowers actually lie, and 2:1 isn't it.