How much would a pro make his first fight ?

[Cleto_Reyes]

2500 and split that with your team...

[New England]

your purse will probably be a couple hundred bucks a round or so. let's say 1000 bucks for a four rounder on the heavy end. then you've got a percentage to your manager [standard is 30%,] trainer [standard is 10%,] and probably a flat fee for your cutman.

there are also medical expenses involved in most states.


this is for a nobody, mind you. a gold medalist will earn much, much more. you'll also get more at a big casino than you will in a club in the midwest.



a short answer would be:
almost nothing.

[CubanGuyNYC]

This is a good question and one I had to research a little for myself, since I have no firsthand knowledge. As you might expect, the range can be extremely broad. I've read that a first-timer in Mexico can make as little as $50 US. A guy with no amateur experience might make around $100 per round (which means he'll gross about $400). A fighter in the U.S. with good amateur experience and an exciting style might make several thousand; but an Olympic gold medallist can make tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands. De La Hoya supposedly made 75k for his debut in 1992, while Zou Shiming made 300k for his.

Unless you're an amazing talent, you better be doing the sport for the love of it. The above numbers are before everyone -- and I mean everyone -- else takes a cut. I just read a post from some guy who quoted Thomas Hauser's book "The Greatest Sport of All: Another Year in Boxing." Hauser details what Pacquiao supposedly earned for the Morales rematch. Manny's purse was reportedly 2 million, but only kept about 300k in the end. Expenses like 50k for a translator, 30% to his manager and 250k to his promoter took a big bite.

Boxers are notorious for winding up broke. Some of that is due to their inexperience with money; but, as you can see, much of it has to do with the fact that they simply don't keep nearly as much as many fans think.

[bose]

If you get into boxing for the money, you might as well chose another sport. Anyone enters boxing strickly for the money may not do so well. Got to love the sport to get to the top.

[kardsufur]

something like $100 per round. Most likely you'll make only a few hundred. People saying 2000-5000$ are dreaming. That's way above average. The TS said how much would the AVERAGE fighter make. The average fighter would make a few hundred $$ or less at the VERY MOST. This is 100% guaranteed fact.

[CubanGuyNYC]

And before you go thinking only newbie pros get peanuts, consider the case of Luis Franco. Luis had an extensive international amateur career, which included a spot on the 2004 Cuban Olympic squad. After his twelfth professional fight, Franco was offered a shot at Billy Dib for Dib's IBF featherweight belt. Luis's purse? A tantalizing $20,000. Franco was so disgusted with the offer that he rejected the shot at a crown and proclaimed he was retiring. (He later decided to fight again. lol)

Think that's bad? You ain't seen nothin' yet. I took the liberty of copy/pasting an excerpt from an ESPN article by Dan Rafael, dated 11/12/13:

Former junior middleweight titlist Cornelius "K9" Bundrage and Joey Hernandez found out Tuesday just how tough the boxing business can be.

Bundrage (32-5, 19 KOs) and Hernandez (23-1-1, 13 KOs) were recently ordered to meet in a title eliminator to produce the mandatory challenger for titlist Carlos Molina. With no deal made between the camps, a purse bid was held and the result showed that their fight is essentially worthless.

Golden Boy, Bundrage's promoter, was the only bidder and won with a paltry offer of just $11,000. Yes, $11,000. To be honest, when I first got the result of the bid I thought for a minute that it was a typo. It wasn't.

As the fighter rated higher in the IBF rankings, Bundrage is entitled to 60 percent of the winning offer, which is a meager $6,600, with Hernandez getting just $4,400. Those are purses that are less than many fighters get for an eight-round preliminary fight.