Forbes Pound-4-Pound Top 10 Moneymakers

[Robbie Barrett]

Where's Khan, Brook, Haye, Joshua on the list? They should all be there.

Joshua should be ahead of Golovkin he's making over $5mil per fight.

[Citizen Koba]

Canelos gate alone made 4x the money Golovkin made against Brook. He's the D-side.

The domestic gate is the total generated - in this context both through US PPV and ticket sales.$20 mil ..ish. $3-5 was Golovkins estimated payday. Two very different things, though undoubtedly Canelo does generate more than Golovkin.

[Scipio2009]

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.

[TheCell8]

"These are my favorite fighters"

[BostonGuy]

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

[285Kid]

Anthony Joshua

[Citizen Koba]

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.

[BennyBlanco]

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.

[Canelo and GGG]

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

[mikinoki]

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