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Who makes more bread, dough, cash? Who generates more revenue? I know they both pack them in.
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Well considering Calzaghe was fighting in half-empty stadiums through his career, and is first real paydays were against a 43 year old Hopkins, and a washed up RJJ.
Hatton probably earns more. Especially if he is asking £15 PPV against guys like Lazcano, and with some Britis "Boxing fans" thinking Hatton is some legend, their prepared to pay. i emphasize "some" -
OMG, did you really just ask this?
Hatton-Mayweather alone sold 900+ thousand PPV's in the USA and 1.4 million in the UK. You do the math @ $55.00 USD a pop. He also brought 30,000+ fans over the pond to see him fight. He probably made more in that fight than Joe has in 3/4's of his career. I heard he got 30 million after all was said and done.
As far as I know, Hopkins was Joes biggest payday and it was rumored to be about 6-7 million. The Jones fight flopped and Joe probably only got about 3-4 million.Comment
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I doubt Calzaghe even made that much.
Especially against RJJ. No offense to Americans, they are easily influenced and are very impressionable and eat up anything. But give them some credit. Their not so naive to want to see a over-washed up RJJ fight a Pensioner-Killer.
It was much more than just a flopComment
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Hatton without doubt, only guy who can sell PPV numbers in the UK.
Joe went with Setanta because he knew he would never touch the Hatton PPV buys, brits like Joe, but they love Hatton.Comment
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I knew they were both getting bread but damn, I didnt think the difference was that much. Damn!Comment
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Well the whole promotion made about 12.5 million in PPV revenue and I asumed they took home about 3-4 home each after everyone and everything was paid off. Who knows, they could have got less or a lil' more. Jones is used to getting 8-15 million per fight, so any way you look at that fight , it was a flop. The only way to have made money for that fight was for it to have happened 6-8 years prior to 2008.
America is far from naive when it comes to boxing. You either 'bring it' on a PPV or you lose out. This one lost, period. (Delahoya, is an exception)
Note* I got the fight and have not missed a Jones fight since 99. As a fan of course.Comment
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Ricky Hatton has made more money then Joe Calzaghe. Ricky has made close to 60 million in his career. I read that the Jones fight made Joe 10 million which was his biggest payday. Mayweather made Ricky between 30-40 million.Comment
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Hatton all day. He is far more popular. Boxing is funny like that as Calzaghe is clearly superior.Comment
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Pretty much.
Helps being quite an extrovert, loving the limelight, being on tv a lot, massively supporting a local football team which you fight at and having a drink with fans after wards.
Plus fighting a couple of times in the best division in boxing, one of which p4p #1, and the next logical fight is also p4p #1.
These are just some of the reasons, not to mention him showing much more willingness to fight in America. Although Calzaghe has beaten more Americans than any other nation, it's just he'd have bigger pockets had he have done it over there a few years ago.
To each their own.Comment
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