Comments Thread For: Fury is Top Paid Combat Sports Star on Forbes 2020 'Highest Paid Athletes' List

[aaronbnb]

All the fighters lie about how much money they make. There's no downside to it.

[daggum]

joshua hasnt even fought this year and still makes more than wilder lmao. this list is pure trash.

[daggum]

why are people taking this list seriously at all? they clearly state its for 2020 and not 2019. joshua hasnt fought yet so how does he even have any money earned from boxing? also wilders official purse was 5 million not 40. are they just making things up and going off rumors? if thats true then joshuas should be much higher(if they are using parts of last year) absolute rubbish but wilder fans arent even looking into it one bit LOOK HOW MUCH WILDER MAKES DERPPP 50-50 SPLIT DERPPP he didnt duck after all even though he lost tens of millions derpp

[daggum]

It is nice to know that he made more boxing money than Joshua, since a long running narrative was that he makes chump change and didn't deserve 50-50.

how many times has joshua fought this year...

[doom_specialist]

how many times has joshua fought this year...

The list is clearly for 2019. How did ANYBODY make these earnings with only half the year down, and the pandemic? Don't act ****** to prolong arguments.

[The D3vil]

How can an offer of $12.5/15M from a guy making $1m a fight lowball offer?

I'm lost here, mate.

Dude, if the job generates more money then I should get paid more money.

With your logic, if I'm a singer, a record company could say, "It doesn't matter if your album sells a million copies, we're gonna pay what you made when you made when you were selling 15,000 copies because that's what you're used to making".

A Wilder/Joshua fight when they were undefeated would've been the biggest fight in boxing and both participants deserved to get paid like they were in the biggest fight in the sport

You wouldn't pay an actor a little ass salary to star in a Hollywood blockbuster, regardless of what they used to make.

[Cool Scant]

How would a fight against a guy that makes $1m generate $100m?

It seems you failed math in school. LMAOOO

Because that’s what the PBC was willing to invest in the fight.

[Cool Scant]

So what do you think he was making a fight? Less than £20m?

I found a U.K. source that said AJ made £8M for Povetkin and £13M for Parker. I don’t know what AJ makes because his purses aren’t reported an Athletic Commission

[rickJen]

why are people taking this list seriously at all? they clearly state its for 2020 and not 2019. joshua hasnt fought yet so how does he even have any money earned from boxing? also wilders official purse was 5 million not 40. are they just making things up and going off rumors? if thats true then joshuas should be much higher(if they are using parts of last year) absolute rubbish but wilder fans arent even looking into it one bit LOOK HOW MUCH WILDER MAKES DERPPP 50-50 SPLIT DERPPP he didnt duck after all even though he lost tens of millions derpp

I have no idea doe.
They're still in awe of the name "Forbes."

[Randall Cunning]

I had to check again.

According to Forbes, Fury made $7m from endorsements and I'm yet to see Fury in any advert apart from his knock off merchandise he bought off Aliexpress for 99p per T-shirt. But Josh who's on almost every advert made $13m from endorsements. LMAOOOO.

Yeah Joshua's numbers are wrong.

Heres an article in The Sun saying Joshua made £32mil from endorsements https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/11070...ngs-net-worth/

Forbes article estimating Joshua's purse to be $60mil for the 2nd Ruiz fight https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianma.../#635e99ab4c61

That's already close to $100mil, and the first Ruiz fight falls into the date range Forbes is using for this list