Anthony Joshua will make $20 Million, Pulev $5 Million

[Gillie]

If these figures are accurate, does this mean that Joshua, and not Canelo, is boxing's biggest draw? I can't remember if Canelo has ever made more than 20 million. Maybe against Mayweather? Pulev is getting extremely well paid as well, maybe more than any other current heavy weight other than AJ.

[Ray*]

If these figures are accurate, does this mean that Joshua, and not Canelo, is boxing's biggest draw? I can't remember if Canelo has ever made more than 20 million. Maybe against Mayweather? Pulev is getting extremely well paid as well, maybe more than any other current heavy weight other than AJ.

Well Joshua has been promoted well over the last few years over here on SKY, the purse stated above wouldn't be off by a few million if it is a false number. Sky really want to maximise Joshua potential PPV earning for themselves and this was why their executives were disappointed with the Tyson Fury inactivity issues.

Haye, Whyte rematch or Parker are the ones they are hoping would bring the next pay if the marketing is right.

[Randall Cunning]

If these figures are accurate, does this mean that Joshua, and not Canelo, is boxing's biggest draw? I can't remember if Canelo has ever made more than 20 million. Maybe against Mayweather? Pulev is getting extremely well paid as well, maybe more than any other current heavy weight other than AJ.

Damn youre taking a chance, youll get quoted to high heaven if any Canelo fans clock this post

[chrisJS]

Had no idea he was making that kind of dough. Good for him.

Meanwhile Wilder is about to fight his 39th bum and is making about the same amount of money as Joshua gets for touching gloves yet the Floyd fanboys say now it's not about the money.

Joshua-Wilder will happen but it's not drawing 90,000 fans here or the PPV figures it gets over there. I'd love it to be in Vegas for selfish reasons but it doesn't belong. Hopefully it happens next because I think Wilder is a loss waiting to happen. It's a poor man's Michael Grant despite the usual suspects on here hyping up as the next Joe Louis.

[Sparked_26]

Goes to show why Wilder is so manic. Imagine that pay day on the horizon?

[TheBigLug]

I'd imagine those figures are accurate. The stadium is 80,000 and his PPV numbers are big and it's not like Pulev will be getting a huge cut of the money, although he's still doing pretty well out of it himself.

He earned around £15m for the Wlad fight apparently, and i'd imagine that was a fairly even % split. So when he's doing a stadium fight again and he's getting a huge cut of the money, it wouldn't surprise me he's earning that much.

[punishing]

Good for Pulev. With purses like that AJ shouldnt have any issue getting opponents in the future

[TheBigLug]

If these figures are accurate, does this mean that Joshua, and not Canelo, is boxing's biggest draw? I can't remember if Canelo has ever made more than 20 million. Maybe against Mayweather? Pulev is getting extremely well paid as well, maybe more than any other current heavy weight other than AJ.

Of course he is. Canelo is a bigger draw in USA and Mexico but that's it. Joshua is a big draw in the UK, but thats'a about it.

Most people don't care about either of them outside of the places they're from or fight, but Joshua's numbers out-do Canelo i believe. There's no way Canelo is selling out 80,000 tickets in a day against someone the calibre of Pulev. They were selling tickets for about $10 for Canelo v Kirkland in that baseball stadium on the day of the fight. You're getting nowhere near a Joshua fight for that little amount of money + if you want a Joshua ticket once they've sold out in a day, you're gonna be paying well over the odds.

Canelo made $5 million guarantee v Floyd, which was his same guarantee v GGG too. That's about his usual purse before PPV cuts, and aside from a few fights like Floyd, GGG and Chavez, his PPV numbers are not that spectacular.

[Larry the boss]

damn Joshua getting paid

[asgarth]

that is just crazy. Wilder only got 900k in his last fight against Washington, who earned 250k. You can critizise it however you want, but at the end of the day boxing is how these boxers make their money and no one would advise them to pursue wilders title, when you earn 20x the purse by fighting against joshua.