Why are boxers earning so much money today?

[BoxingIsGreat]

I said blueprint.

Gotcha.

[Squ□redCircle34]

Maybe 1 mill? Enough?

Lmao imagine if they did post on a Craigslist or something about hiring showcase to lose fighters for 700k!

[BoxingIsGreat]

Fighters deserve every penny that they get paid...……..Rockin'

Yes, sir. At least they'd be able to afford a good health insurance, unlike the fighters of the past.

[BoxingIsGreat]

Lmao imagine if they did post on a Craigslist or something about hiring showcase to lose fighters for 700k!

That'd be hilarious. I'm a cruiser but I wouldn't want to be beat up by my boy Usyk for any kind of money. I'd fight their semi-cans tho!

[Unknown Champ]

Ima be honest. Floyd was only the most paid ppv fighter due to the other fighters people wanted him to fight not because of him. IE May vs Berto...flopped. Most paid to watch him lose to "their guy."

[Scipio2009]

The amount of money that is in professional boxing is something that I have never seen before. This is really a golden age for earning record high purses for boxers with the app war going on.


DISCUSS....

Haymon took the risk and proved the market; once Haymon proved that there was water in the pool, Bob Arum started leeching where he could almost immediately.

And, with live sports being the last great bastion for advertising, you have entrepreneurs and oligarchs thinking they can jump in on this too.

[R_Walken]

3 different en****** have all gone all in on boxing and right now all have crazy $ to spend compared to the budget from previous years

All 3 platforms are in a arms race trying to gather as much talent as possible to fight under them, Crazy contracts are going to be thrown around to attract fighters

DAZn starting from scratch had no other choice but to throw $ at fighters that the other 2 wouldn’t to secure top end talent.

[Squ□redCircle34]

That'd be hilarious. I'm a cruiser but I wouldn't want to be beat up by my boy Usyk for any kind of money. I'd fight their semi-cans tho!

Usyk likely would toy with you for a round or so and then put you down to end your suffering!

I’m more of a middleweight so it would be surreal if I could be added to the list of tomato cans that ggg fights in his career for hiscomeback fight this year!

I already drafted an email proposal so I might just try my luck ! Lol

[pillowfists98]

New influx of money into the sport. It won't last forever though.

[Randall Cunning]

US TV networks are trying to stop DAZN from getting in. Fox and ESPN are pumping cash in as boxing has become the first battle ground. None of the money going out adds up to the money coming in. Its the first skirmish of something thatll be much bigger.