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Not long ago, the so-called “fight of the century” took place between Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather, which attracted enormous attention from martial arts fans around the world. The uniqueness of this fight is that Conor McGregor had never fought according to the rules of boxing before, so the fight against the absolute champion Mayweather became the event of the year in the world of martial arts. Despite the fact that McGregor lost the fight, he was able to earn a huge amount of money from this event.
The merits of Mayweather and McGregor: a general comparison.

Most of the profits from broadcast sales went to Mayweather as champion. Income was divided in a ratio of 1 to 4. Judging by the number of broadcasts sold, the amount of remuneration for the champion was about 230 million dollars, while the Irishman received about 60 million.

How much did the winner and loser get?

Even before the fight, the amount that the winner of the fight was guaranteed to receive was known. As has already been announced, the amount of remuneration for the champion was more than one hundred million dollars. Despite the fact that McGregor lost this fight, his reward was more than 30 million.

Now you can imagine exactly how much McGregor earned for the fight with Mayweather.

Mayweather's earnings and net worth from other fights

In addition to the “fight of the year,” Floyd was excellent at earning huge sums from other boxing fights. Over the course of his 21-year career, Mayweather managed to earn over a billion dollars. which is an absolute record among professional fighters. According to some calculations and estimates, Floyd's net worth is estimated at $1.3 billion.

Not counting the “fight of the year,” the highest-grossing boxing match is considered to be the meeting between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather. The total prize fund for this fight was about 500 million. Of these, only 100 went to Pacquiao, while Floyd managed to earn an amount of 300 million. Of these, most of them come from royalties from sponsorship agreements and money from the sale of broadcasts. A less “cash-office” fight with Saul Alvarez brought the American about 75 million.

In addition to earning money from various fights, Floyd has many personal companies, with the help of which he increases his fortune. One of such companies is a promotion agency. Mayweather receives money from various companies that are interested in his face.

Floyd Mayweather continues to excite the public. He continues to express interest in a fight against UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov and believes that such an entry into the ring will be the most profitable performance of his career.

“I’m my own boss. I can’t say how this story with Khabib will end, but as for me, we can arrange it. For the fight with Khabib I will receive a 9-figure sum. It will be more than for the fight with McGregor - probably ", $100 million more, guaranteed. Guaranteed fees could be $110-200 million more."

"He challenged me, so he should come to my world. I saw his interview where he said that he hit Conor McGregor and knocked him down, but I couldn’t do it. Khabib, you got my scraps... Come to my peace. Let it happen," Mayweather told TMZ Sports.

Let us recall that in August 2017, Mayweather’s guaranteed fee for the fight with McGregor was $100 million.

In all respects he lost to the American boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. in a fight according to boxing rules. The fight lasted ten rounds and ended in a technical knockout. tells more about the meeting of the century.

Boxing celebration

McGregor, as promised, was actively involved in the work from the first round. The Irish fighter threw a lot of unprepared punches and tried to finish the fight early, using all his boxing skills. The American, as throughout his successful professional career, initially remained very calm, acting as number two. Mayweather calmly repelled his opponent's attacks, counterattacking dangerously.

One of the best boxers of our time calmly confronted the Irish upstart, surpassing him in both tactics and technique. From about the fourth round, McGregor began to constantly fall into the clinch, since only there could salvation be found from the crushing blows of the American. In the tenth round, Mayweather's advantage became total. The American delivered a series of accentuated blows, after which there was practically nothing left of the Irishman. The referee stopped the match in time, determining a technical knockout. If it weren’t for him, the main newsmaker of recent days would have been lying unconscious in the ring. However, as it turned out, McGregor was not at all averse to ending up on the canvas.

“I think the fight was stopped too early. There was too much at stake; it had to be allowed to continue. I was exhausted. Although at first it seemed to me that I was doing a good job. I would prefer a knockout. It seemed to me that overall neither of us had much of an advantage. The judge should have let him put me down,” McGregor said.

The play is over

“We gave the fans what they wanted. I told him I owed it to the fans for the Manny Pacquiao fight, I needed to move forward. McGregor was a lot stronger than I thought, he was a tough opponent, but I'm the best today. Our plan was to let him throw all his heavy hits in the beginning and then defeat him. In MMA he fights for 25 minutes, after which he becomes slower,” Mayweather said immediately after the end of the fight.

Indeed, throughout the meeting, neutral spectators had the feeling that Mayweather was completely in control of the situation. In the first rounds, he deliberately gave the initiative to his opponent, but he was unable to derive any benefit from his activity. As experts predicted, the American demonstrated a great advantage in technical equipment and practically did not miss any blows.

Before the fight, McGregor promised to knock out his opponent in the first round, but these were just loud words. In fact, everything turned out as it should have turned out: a professional boxer destroyed his less qualified opponent. The reputation of boxing, for which many were so worried, did not suffer.

Money doesn't smell

Despite Mayweather's landslide victory, McGregor hardly considers himself a true loser. For the show, which took place in Las Vegas, the Irishman earned as much money as he had never received for any fight within the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). It was reported that McGregor's guaranteed fee for the fight was $30 million; there are simply no such sums in mixed martial arts.

Mayweather received three times as much. But boxing is generally much more profitable than MMA. After the meeting with McGregor, the American immediately once again announced his retirement. However, few doubt that if another lucrative offer arrives, 40-year-old Mayweather will easily return to the ring.

“Why should McGregor stay in boxing? This was a one-time event. He is absolutely not ready for boxing. What was expected happened. McGregor is a top-notch MMA fighter, but boxing is different, and he went up against the best boxer in the world. Everything went according to Floyd's dictation. Mayweather's boxing talent is undeniable; McGregor had no chance. At the end of the fight, Conor was functionally tired, he no longer had anything to hit with. The beating began,” Russian heavyweight boxer Valery Brudov told R-Sport.

In the end, everyone achieved what they wanted: the athletes earned fabulous fees, and interested fans watched the unprecedented meeting. The fight of the century took place and ended as most experts predicted.

"I'm not a fool. If I see an opportunity to earn 300 million in 36 minutes of fighting, then why not?” — asked himself on Twitter Floyd Mayweather nicknamed "Pretty Boy" shortly before his fiftieth (and last career) fight.

10 years for “promotion”

Floyd Mayweather was lucky to be born at the right time in the right place. If he had started his fantastic career 10-15 years earlier, his absolute greatness would have been rated several times lower. It's just about money, of course, because the purely sporting side of the issue is not subject to discussion: Mayweather is a genius in the ring, one of the greatest (if not the greatest) fighters of all time.

But here’s the trick: he began to earn not just huge amounts, as befits a global megastar, but unrealistically gigantic sums of money, actually at the end of his career.

Atlanta Olympic bronze medalist Mayweather began his professional career at the end of 1996, and it took almost 10 years to “promote” him. Suffice it to say that in 1997 Floyd had as many as 10 fights, and the first title fight took place only 2 years after his debut, in October 1998. And he was already the eighteenth in a row in the professional ring.

It is clear that there was no talk of serious fees at that time. Until 2007, when his fight with Oscar De La Hoya, Floyd did not stand out from the crowd in any way. The maximum he reached was $3.2 million for the fight against Arturo Gatti(2005). This is not surprising: small weights in professional boxing are commercially much less attractive than medium weights, not to mention large ones, and Floyd was on the rise in this regard. In 1996, he started from the first lightweight weight (up to 59 kg), moved up to light weight (just above 61 kg) in 2002, and to the first welterweight (up to 63.5 kg) in 2005.

Finally, in 2007, Floyd, who had gained strength, weight and popularity, reached the first average (up to 69.9 kg), received the WBC world champion, thirty-four-year-old De La Hoya, as his opponent, and earned his first really serious (on the scale of the big boxing business, of course) money. The opponent who lost on points received 53 million, Floyd - 25, and it was this victory that marked a new stage in his career.

My own director

In 2007, Floyd, taking advantage of the support of an influential professional boxer in the world manager Al Haymon founded his own promotion company, Mayweather Promotions, and... went off the radar for almost two years.

In September 2009, returning to the ring after a break, “his own director” Mayweather defeated the Mexican Juan Manuel Marquez receiving 10 million “net”, without taking into account additional revenue from paid broadcasts. In September 2013, he beat another Mexican, Saul Alvarez, on points and added a record 41.5 million to his account. And “for the TV” the champion was paid another 30.

Finally, on May 2, 2015, his historic fight with the great Filipino took place Manny Pacquiao, which was dubbed the “fight of the century.” The fight did not live up to the expectations of the fans, and after an unimpressive 12 rounds, the judges gave the victory to Mayweather, whose fee amounted to an incredible $120 million. It was the highest fee in boxing history.

In addition to payments for the fight, Floyd received a percentage of the total revenue, which reached 90 million.

There is a billion!

Having defeated his 49th opponent in September 2015 Andre Berto and having earned 32 million for this fight, Mayweather announced that there would be no 50th fight. By this time, his total earnings, according to financial analysts, were estimated at $765 million, two-thirds of which he earned in his most fruitful 4 years:

• 2012 - 85 million
• 2013 - 73.5 million
• 2014 - 105 million
• 2015 - 300 million

This is where the option with Conor McGregor, an MMA fighter who agreed to fight Floyd according to boxing rules. Mayweather did not want to give up the chance to cross the billion mark, despite the openly populist content of the upcoming fight. And he said that same phrase: “I’m not a fool. If I see an opportunity to earn 300 million in 36 minutes of fighting, then why not?”

The guys, as we now know, quite successfully realized this opportunity. The guaranteed amount of payments to Mayweather was 100 million dollars, and he will receive about 200 more for the sale of paid broadcasts and tickets. Thus, Floyd’s earnings not even in 36, but in just over 28 minutes (the fight was stopped in the 10th round) will be at least 300 million. Fans of exact numbers immediately calculated that for each of the 1685 seconds spent in the ring, Floyd replenished his budget by 178 thousand 41 dollars.

The seemingly eternal record set during the fight with Pacquiao - $63 thousand per second - has fallen. Just like the billion-dollar milestone. But forty-year-old Floyd will not advance any further. He left the ring undefeated: 50 fights - 50 victories. There will definitely not be fifty-one.

Floyd Mayweather is undoubtedly one of the greatest boxers of our time. It is difficult to count all his achievements, one of the most outstanding of which is his victory in the spring of 2015 over another great fighter, Manny Pacquiao. For this fight, Mayweather received a staggering fee, however, for previous fights he also earned very decent amounts of money.

Let's find out how much Floyd Mayweather earned throughout his career and how much he received specifically for his last fight.

Floyd's career

But first, let's look at the main points of Floyd Mayweather's biography.

The future champion was born in February 1977 in a small town in the American state of Michigan. Floyd didn’t have to choose a field of study for a long time, since his father and uncles were boxers. He started with amateur boxing, where his greatest achievement was a bronze medal at the 1996 Olympics.

That same year, Mayweather made his debut in the professional ring and won by knockout in his first fight. Already in 1998, he fought for the WBC world champion title in the first lightweight division, in which he won a convincing victory.

After Floyd had no worthy opponents left in this weight category, he moved to lightweight in 2002, in 2004 to second lightweight, and in 2005 to welterweight. Everywhere he won convincing victories and became a champion.

Finally, in 2007, Mayweather moved up to the middleweight category. And immediately he had a fight with the legendary Oscar De La Hoya. In a very difficult twelve-round fight, Floyd was again the winner. Then, in the same weight category, he won convincing victories over such recognized masters as Ricky Hatton, Shane Mosley, Miguel Cotto, Marcos Maidana.

Mayweather vs Pacquiao fight

Many boxing fans were looking forward to the fight between the invincible Floyd Mayweather and the famous Manny Pacquiao. The upcoming event, which was scheduled in Las Vegas for May 2, 2015, was dubbed the fight of the century.

But the fans' hopes were not justified; the fight turned out to be rather ordinary, and according to some experts, even boring. However, this is a common occurrence in those cases when two strong fighters of approximately equal class meet in the ring, who simply do not allow each other to open up.

As a result of the twelve-round fight, the judges gave the victory on points to Mayweather with a slight advantage. Pacquiao later justified his defeat by citing an injury suffered before the fight.

Fees per fight

What fees did Mayweather and Pacquiao receive for this high-profile fight? Floyd earned a fantastic amount - $120 million. Pacquiao's fee also reached huge amounts - $100 million. No boxing fight in world history had such high fees before.

In addition to direct payments for the fight, Mayweather received a certain percentage of the total proceeds under the contract. Thus, the real amount of his income for this fight was about $210 million.

The organizers of this fight, taking into account tickets for it and royalties from television broadcasts, exceeded $500 million. This achievement is also a record. Mayweather topped the ranking of boxers in terms of fees per fight.

Mayweather's income

Naturally, the fee for the fight with Pacquiao is only part of Floyd Mayweather's total income. Let's take a look at how much he has earned in recent years:

• 2015 – $300 000 000;
• 2014 – $105 000 000;
• 2013 – $73 500 000;
• 2012 – $85 000 000.

Thus, we see that Floyd's total annual income has been growing rapidly over the past years. The only exception was 2013, in which he only had two fights.

It should also be said that since 2012, with the exception of 2013, Mayweather has annually become the most paid athlete in the world, displacing the all-time leader of previous years, golfer Tiger Woods, from Olympus.

In addition, in 2015, thanks to the same high-profile fight with Pacquiao, Floyd almost tripled the record previously held by Woods for total earnings in a single season. Even the earnings of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are significantly less.

For all 48 fights that Mayweather spent in the professional ring during his life, he managed to earn more than $600 million. Moreover, almost half of this amount comes from earnings in 2015, and a third from the specific fight with Pacquiao.