Comments Thread For: Forbes World's Highest-Paid Athletes: Breaking Down Boxer Ranks

[BIGPOPPAPUMP]

Saul Canelo' Alvarez isn't just the highest paid boxer in the world today; he also strongly rivals the richest athletes among any genre. The Mexican superstar and reigning World middleweight champion cracked the top 10 of the annual Forbes World's Highest-Paid Athletes list, which profiles the 100 top earners from around the world. The list is generated every June by the business magazine, based on earnings generated from the prior June to present day rather than over the course of a traditional calendar year. He is among five boxers on this year's list, matching the total from 2018.
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[neilt631]

$30 mil with only 500k of endorsements. Not bad

[Rockybigblower]

It's interesting how close the earnings are between AJ and Wilder given all the A side talk and who can't sell etc etc. For all the rabbit about what AJ earns I would have thought he would be around the 100 mil mark and Wilder around the 20. Reality is sometimes stranger than fiction.

[Removed Now]

50/50 for Wildier vs Joshua is looking very reasonable now specially after the lose.

[Oldskoolg]

It’s good to see boxers on that list doing so well. It really blows wide open this notion of “boxing is dead” coming from so many goofy little geeked out suburbanite silver spoon Ufc nerds.
I’d like to see boxers get more from endorsements in the USA though. You can see the difference in what Joshua makes on endorsements and what the American based fighters get from endorsements. That is entirely due to the vast majority of sports journalists and networks refusing to cover boxing in the uk. Somewhere in the late 90s, I stopped seeing winners of big boxing matches being mentioned on the sports casts of the news and stopped seeing boxers covered in sports illustrated, sporting news, etc etc. Bringing boxing back to network tv and basic cable as FOX and ESPN have done is the right approach to grow the sport in the USA

[The D3vil]

It’s good to see boxers on that list doing so well. It really blows wide open this notion of “boxing is dead” coming from so many goofy little geeked out suburbanite silver spoon Ufc nerds.
I’d like to see boxers get more from endorsements in the USA though. You can see the difference in what Joshua makes on endorsements and what the American based fighters get from endorsements. That is entirely due to the vast majority of sports journalists and networks refusing to cover boxing in the uk. Somewhere in the late 90s, I stopped seeing winners of big boxing matches being mentioned on the sports casts of the news and stopped seeing boxers covered in sports illustrated, sporting news, etc etc. Bringing boxing back to network tv and basic cable as FOX and ESPN have done is the right approach to grow the sport in the USA

Not really.

There's only 4 boxers out of 100 athletes on the list. That's scary for boxing, because what it says is that boxing is top-heavy, where a few guys make all the money, while everyone else is struggling to survive.

[sanapuki]

Would be interesting to see how these figures break down per fight. For Widler the rumour was $20 mill to fight Brazeale and then $10 mill for Fury? Also, does this include Joshua's Ruiz fight? Possibly not as it fell into June. In which case it would mean only 1 fight for Joshua in the last year. Although $55 mill for that one fight seems a bit high.

[James Hunt]

Only 500k in endorsements?! Seems no company wants to be associated with that clown

[SteveM]

SMH - at all those clowns who asserted that GGG had been poorly managed and promoted by K2 and Tom Loeffler - and these are only the 2018 earnings.

He's doing better than - Gervonta Davis, Loma, Crawford, Spence, Thurman, Porter, Hurd, Charlos, Broner, Kovalev, Usyk, Bellew, Haye, Tyson Fury and hundreds more. Now watch the race card get played. I always fely he could have doubled that if only he had been fluent in English.

[kidbazooka]

King Cashnelo ****tts all over these fools.

No competition.