Comments Thread For: Mayweather Wants $600 Million For Bouts With Khabib, McGregor

[IceTrayDaGang]

No, but I’m sure he can earn 300 mil in just that fight. He said he made something like 450 mil against Pacquiao. And it’s 600 mil for 2 fights not one.

he's not gonna make 300mil fighting conor or khabib anymore.. unless it's in mma or some type of dififerent rules that will make it interesting but in boxing, i dont think anyone is gonna put up that type of money when they saw what happen last time with mcnugget.

[Slicedbread]

... if properly staged, anything is possible... even a "tragic" flop in the first fight...

Agree.

Floyd definitely has the drawing power to generate that kind if cash.

But idk if thered be enough profit for the UFC to risk it.

They'd have to do like 5.5 million buys. And maybe with Saudi Arabia pitching in half a billion to stage it which I could see.

[Slicedbread]

It doesn’t matter what anyone thinks, or how much a distributor takes from an ordinary PPV fight. Fighters of high caliber, high revenue generating, are guaranteed a certain amount of money and will be guaranteed more money depending on the success of the PPV. According to Forbes, Mayweather made $275million, McGregor made $85million.

Sure cable companies take this, and promoters take that, but if you want a guy who generates as much money as Floyd does you have to make certain accommodations in his contract for his appearances. He probably doesn’t make a gross pay of $300 million of course, no one makes what you see they reported they made. But I do believe that for Floyd to come back and fight, especially 2015 and on, he most likely makes sure that he is contractually obligated to earn a certain amount of money and plus a certain amount of more money depending on how many PPV’s are sold beyond a certain amount. Not to mention a cut of the gate revenue, a cut of the merchandise sold, a cut of the site fee, and a cut of the international rights to the fight.

There’s plenty of different revenue streams to get Floyd his guarantee plus his upside money.

Someone will have to be operating at a loss. Would it be the networks? I don’t know, but someone will lose money. I believe Forbes numbers are true and that makes $360 million split between Mayweather and McGregor which I think sounds feasible. Now what Conor paid to White or what Mayweather paid to Haymon, or what the fighters paid to their corners, that’s nonsense. That shouldn’t even be mentioned, everyone knows part of a fighters earnings have to be given to several people in their camp.

No one really takes that into account when talking about earnings. That’s like me saying I make $70k a year, and then someone saying “no you don’t, you have to pay taxes, your rent, electricity, water, internet bill, cell phone bill, car, car insurance, student loans, food, gas money, so you make considerably less than $70k stop lying!”.

Sorry wasn't trying to be an ass you sound like a good dude.

I just dont think a lot of people realize that when we hear these figures from PPV buys half of that money off the top is gone before any back-end split percentages are valued.

But I suppose it's definitely possible.

Who knows for sure.

I'm just skeptical of that figure. I think before taxes it was closer to 150

[djtmal]

.....and there it is ladies and gentlemen. Your next no risk, high reward offering. Dunn and Larry get your TMT pom poms and mma tights ready. . The next sideshow is about to begin

[Monzon99]

The fraud continues to steal the money from idiots morons pinheads and re7ards.

While ducking huge money KO losses to Canelo and Pacquiao, the greatest fraud in boxing history is now handpicking novices to exploit.

[Monzon99]

Fraudweather has no draw power now, he's piggybacking off names and now UFC to steal your money. Put fraud in a real fight against a Berto or Thurman or Porter and it would be a financial failure.

[Combat Talk Radio]

Mayweather brueprint= highest reward lowest risk

Just replace "Shane Mosley" with "Califire209" and it still works.

[Senor_frogs]

Lol, the clear and obvious Canelo Rick Rider is calling me a **** rider. Perhaps you should take a very good look in the mirror and remove the log in your eye before you try to remove the speck in mine.

Ps. Canelo wasn't green when he fought Floyd. He had only four less pro fights than Floyd, was a world champion, and had beating previously unbeaten Austin no doubt Trout in scintillating fashion, right after Trout schooled Cotto too. He had beaten the man who beat the man, but got schooled by the main man.

Get over it. It happened and no amount of lame excuses will change that.

Most boxing experts agree he was way too green at the time to be facing the #1 p4p fighter in the world. And for you to not be able to see that just confirms how much of a dic rider you are. And the catch weight was just one more advantage the A side had to have. And you know it. If that wasn’t the case the why did he fight Cotto at a full 154 lbs but not Alvarez? But keep on riding baby girl.

[angkag]

Actually, wasn't it Khabib who said about Mayweather 'sure, 9 rounds his rules, last round my rules'

That adds some ****e, unless Mayweather kos him in 9, he gets ground pounded in the 10th.

[champion4ever]

Hot damn Floyd! $600 million is a bit much don't you think? Your time is up. No one is interested in watching a 43 year old man fight again unless it's against one of your contemporaries like Manny Pacquiao.