Comments Thread For: McGregor Tops Canelo, Joshua on Forbes Highest Paid Athletes List

[Golden Boi 360]

What's crazy is canelo made more then Mcgregor in purse earnings last year and he sold 600k PPVs for khan fight and 300k for the smith fight. McGregor sold over 4m PPVs in 2016. Damn UFC fighters getting jerked. UFC is pocketing a lot of money. Boxers selling a fraction of the PPVS and making a lot more.

3/05/2016 UFC 196 McGregor vs Diaz 1,317,000
08/20/2016 UFC 202 McGregor v Diaz 2 1,650,000
11/12/2016 UFC 205 McGregor v Alvarez 1,300,000

That's crazy. That's why McGregor wants the Floyd fight. But even if he gets it, I think UFC takes a big chunk of his check as well.

[RetroSpeed05]

Wow that's crazy I Thought mcgrgor made like 3M his last fight. And damn where's the endorsement money at for boxing

I think that's just the guarantees. In total it says he made 27 mil in fight purses plus 7 mil from endorsements and sponsorship's.

[bigdunny1]

if canelo dumb ass spoke english he could have milked out tons of endorsements.

Yup he getting paid more in endorsements in 2017 now that he got those national Tecate commercials with Stallone but if you notice they forcing him to speak English in all of them. If he spoke English fluently his endorsements will double or triple. LOL

[Deus]

Canelo made more last year and made more then joshua has in 2017 so far in his Chavez fight alone. Will make even more against GGG. If Canelo doesn't sign another fight in 2017 will clear over 50m.

Lets be fair; Joshua has only fought once in 2017 anyway!

Think the interesting thing when it comes to the two of them at the moment is according to that Forbes list Joshua is already making more than twice the amount that Canelo is from endorsements. When it comes to fight fees though Joshua is going to have to break the US to be making more than Canelo.

[All in]

This is for 2016. Canelo made over 20m for the Chavez fight alone.

Cool. McGregor will make over 75mil for mayweather.

[aboutfkntime]

if canelo dumb ass spoke english he could have milked out tons of endorsements.

this is true

they should have had him in english classes when he was 15

strange

[aboutfkntime]

What's crazy is canelo made more then Mcgregor in purse earnings last year and he sold 600k PPVs for khan fight and 300k for the smith fight. McGregor sold over 4m PPVs in 2016. Damn UFC fighters getting jerked. UFC is pocketing a lot of money. Boxers selling a fraction of the PPVS and making a lot more.

3/05/2016 UFC 196 McGregor vs Diaz 1,317,000
08/20/2016 UFC 202 McGregor v Diaz 2 1,650,000
11/12/2016 UFC 205 McGregor v Alvarez 1,300,000

McGregor made 27m off earnings in 2016 that means he was paid only 9m each fight that drew over 1.3m PPVs each? Canelo/Chavez Just drew 1.2m according to ESPN and canelo was paid over 20m alone for that fight. And was paid 28.5m in 2016 for 2 fights that didn't Crack 1m ppvs buys.

sheeit

the UFC are milking their fighters

[bigdunny1]

Cool. McGregor will make over 75mil for mayweather.

No he wont. LMAO
Floyd will take the lion share and then the McGregor cut will be split probably in half by UFC. He will make a lot of money probably 20m maybe 30m max for that 1 fight. Fight will make a ton of money but too many hands grabbing a slice of that pie before mcgregor even gets his fork out. Floyd might make 75m because he ain't splitting nothing and has his own promotional company that will handle everything.

[budfr]

****** list. nOT EVERYTHING IS MONEY, AND ALL THESE GUYS COMMENTING WISH THEY HAD THEIR MONEY.

[BigStomps]

Cool. McGregor will make over 75mil for mayweather.

You sound like a damn fool counting another man's money!