Mayweather (of course) tops payouts for “The Moment”

Kevin Iole of Yahoo! Sports reports the fight purses for Saturday’s Floyd Mayweather-Marcos Maidana fight at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.  Mayweather will make $32 million without factoring other streams of revenue.

Mayweather’s opponent, Marcos Maidana will make $1.5 million. Maidan will also receive a portion of the television rights from Argentina and a share of the PPV revenues according to the ESPN.  As for the undercard, Adrien Broner will make $1.25 million while his opponent Carlos Molina will make $150,000.  Amir Khan will make $1.5 million and his opponent Luis Collazo will make $350,000.   In the first night of the evening, J’Leon Love will make $100,000 while his opponent Marco Antonio Periban will earn $35,000.

Payout Perspective:

The first Saturday of May is always jam-packed with sports (3 NBA Game 7s and the Kentucky Derby) and is capped by the Mayweather fight.  Mayweather’s pay is not surprising but the undercard fighter makes this payroll pretty hefty.  Certainly the undercard has much more interest than an HBO PPV and we will see if it will do better than the Pacquiao-Bradley II fight last month.