Floyd Mayweather will make at least $32 million for his rematch against Marcos Maidana Saturday night in Las Vegas. Maidana will make $3 million for the fight.
ESPN’s Dan Rafael among others reported the payouts. The contracted salaries were released by the Nevada State Athletic Commission prior to Friday’s weigh-ins. The $32 million purse does not include the ancillary revenue Mayweather will make from PPV buys, gate, sponsorships and the like. Mayweather made at least $32 million this past May in his first fight against Maidana. The challenger made $1.5 million in their first fight and gets a significant bump up in pay for this fight.
Maidana did make a significant amount more in their first fight from Argentina television rights and another $1.5 million for wearing boxing gloves authorized by Mayweather. You may recall that the fighters had a last minute disagreement about the type of gloves Maidana would wear in May. According to Rafael’s article, it appears that Maidana was handsomely rewarded for conceding his glove of choice.
On the undercard, the payouts were revealed as follows:
Huberto Soto ($150K) v. John Molina Jr. ($125K)
Leo Santa Cruz ($750K) v. Manuel Roman ($50K)
Miguel Vazquez ($450K) v. Mickey Bey ($125K)
Alfredo Angulo ($500K) v. James De La Rosa ($43K)
Payout Perspective:
It will be another big money payday for Mayweather. Not only will he be making his “minimum” of $32 million, he probably will be making more money than in May due to the competitiveness of his fight with Maidana. At $75 per PPV buy, this should be another good day for Mayweather regardless of the outcome. Of course, with Showtime stating it would not reveal PPV buys, we might not know the official numbers. May’s fight did 900K PPV buys. Maidana’s profile (and bank account) has greatly improved since May and it appears he will prosper from the second fight too.
very impressive numbers, but can it out sell the last one? MMA could never even dream of these numbers, even with their world domination lol Stay tuned big sold out ufc show in Mexico bahahha I hear the scalpers bought all the tickets bahahaha Hola!
Stop printing this kind of salaries here…it would just agitate and frustrate ufc fanboys hahahaha….look at the salaries of the undercard..big money….hahaha
It’s impressive what the undercard is making, and that is only the contracted purse. It’s unfortunate that Showtime will no longer release PPV numbers, but if the fight breaks the 1 mill mark you can bet they will talk about it.
Saldaqueef, how impressive are the prelim fighters purses? Mayweather prelim fighters can make as low as 1k! You’ll never see anything nearly that low for a ufc. 8k minimum.
Mayweather retirement date…..9/2015
Pacquaio retirement date……..sometime within the next 2 years most likely
What’s boxing going to do for ppv at that point?
Illogical, what is not impressive is what the prelim fighters will make, notably, no one ever discloses their salaries, or else all the boxing trolls of the world wouldn’t open their idiotic mouths.
Showtime never released ppv numbers, they lied about them, never officially released them.
Undercard fighters only make what is contracted to them in boxing, what do you think this is, the ufc?
Havent seen santa cruz fight…surely not a household name….got 750k? thats big money
750k is nice, what isn’t nice is 2k which is what Paul Harness made as a MAIN CARD fighter on the Martinez-Chavez Jr. ppv.
Not only would that literally never happen in the UFC these days on a ppv for a prelim fighter, but no free tv fighter for the lowest profile ufc fight on the prelims, not even a last minute replacement would make anywhere near that low-8k is the lowest any ufc fighter makes for the lowest ranked fight. That is even absurd for Bellator standards.
Only in boxing can main card ppv fighters get paid that low.
The whole ufc 177 salary is at $420,000……miguel vazques who is also a non household name gets more than the whole ufc 177…..177 was a flop but i think the event has more media buzz than miguel vazquez hahahahahaha
You just lied again. Not to mention you take a fight card that had no business being on ppv and you compare it to the biggest boxing ppv of the year.
Still waiting for that response to Harness’ 2k purse….boxing main card fighter.
I compared it to a salary of one boxer…..one boxer who is not even popular….hahaha…weidman got 450k same as vazquez and lower than sant cruz hahahaha……
The question isn’t what boxing is going to do in 2 years, the question is whats the UFC going to do NOW!!! Funny how one boxer makes 32 million and the ufc loses at least that a year bahahaha OH WAIT Mexico is the new frontier for the ufc, big time world expansion bahahahaha Boxing will truck along just like it has for 100 years no matter who is fighting, rumor, new heavyweights are in the wings ready to take over ppv in boxing fuck turd!!!
Hah ha. To all you low lifes who lie and say. Boxers who fight on undercards make no money. There is a dude who weighs 130 pounds who I dont know and is base salary is more than Cain Velasquez and Jon Jones LOL. Feakin pathetic. Alfred Angulo just got creamed and still made more than UFC Champions. Yeah Donna White keep lying.
Haha. Topps doesn’t realize Weidman gets ppv points and makes millions per fight. What a dummy.
SaldaQUEEF back for more. Arum’s got him on a mission, but he is too stupid to realize the UFC got the network deal, something boxing couldn’t do. I can’t wait until you try to spin the massive decline in boxing ppv buys when those two retire. There isn’t anyone waiting in the wings. You need Americans to sell as an A and it isn’t happening. The youth are gravitating towards mma, and boxing is going to lose its only big ppv draws. What shit is Arum going to feed to you then you little fag boy?
Fightbusiness once again proving he doesn’t know shit about either sport. Jones makes more money than nearly every boxer in the entire sport and Velasquez isn’t too far behind. 130lb boxers have no drawing power, don’t fight on ppv and don’t make anywhere near the money you claim.
You are a complete moron who can’t even identify numbers posted on this website.
Im being charitable by not comparing weidman to main card maidana or mayweather because there is no comparison when it comes to pay instead im comparing it to not popular boxers on the undercard hahahahaha….im making computations ufc 175 salaries to the undercard.seems 2 undercard in this article exceeds the whole pay of 175 as well….hahaha…where did the 500 mil go? to inflate d bubble hahaha
2 boxers i mean
Sta cruz and vazquez combined salaries is bigger than the whole ufc 175 hahahaha….
Add angulo and the 3 have biggers salaries than 175 and 177 hahahahahahaha
I wonder how many ufc events salaries equivalent to floyds salaries in a year hahahaha
to be fair i read, that showtime has actually lost money on all of floyds fights except the canelo fight.
also i do think the ufc is on a downward trend, there ratings and ppvs sales are down quite a bit, and they are sitting on 500 million in debt.
Silva’s salary alone made more than the entire undercard. Topps has autism.
There is someone on this page that says 130 pounders have no drawing power in Boxing. Exactly that is why it is so pathetic to see that on this undercard one of them made 750k and the other 500k. That proves small guys with no name can make more money in Boxing than elite UFC Fighters. Nonito Donaire made 1.2 million to fight Rigendouxx. Dude weighs 126 pounds
Horrible performance from Floyd with all the wrestling. He should go fight for pennies in the UFC with that shitty style.
Hahahaha…finally d is near reality…comparing ufc headliner one of the if not the highest paid silva to boxing undercard salaries hahaha……ufc main event fighter= boxing undercard….going to compute how many ufc events equals floyd 1 fight salary
There is someone on this page who doesn’t know how to look up the numbers that are given on this website and are noted clear as day. This is the same person who says mma is dying, yet routinely comes on here and spews nonsensical bullshit about mma. Elite UFC fighters make much more than 750k, and the boxers you mention at 130 will never make that money outside of being on a Mayweather ppv main card. Go check out what 130lb non title fighters make who don’t fight on Mayweather’s MC ppv. They are laughable figures.
I bet Floyd’s prelim fighters would kill to fight on a UFC prelim, where they would make 4x what they make fighting under Floyd!! HAHAHA!!
Smell E…Haha…he can’t read, so he continues to make things up with his idiotic mind.
So hysterical reading D’s rant and delusional argument like a fucking RETARD! According to Dan boxing was done 10 years ago bahahah what a fool! Network deal my ass its a loser EVERYONE KNOWS IT. MMA is taking its niche right behind women beach volleyball bahahahahah
Hahaha!! Bobbi’s little queen Sal and his delusions of grandeur. This guy is so full of gay shit it is unreal. What a homo. He is just jealous that his Foot Fist Way board breaking videos haven’t taken off and the UFC is getting 100m per year from FOX, while no one else in combat sports has a network on board.
Bahahaha a network deal that is failing miserably bahahaha ppv failing miserably 100 million in you wet dreams ufc will end up owing fox you nim rod bahahah All bullshit lies by D and the ufc too bad, they had a great run bahahaha oh wait mexico is doing great sold out some barn in mexico city bahahaha 20 pesos a ticket bahahah give us a break D all your supposed successes are in fact failures. Changes are coming big ones Dana White to be the new door greater at station casino’s bahaha
Saldaqueef, you don’t convince anyone of your bullshit other than the other trolls here in the senior citizen club like you. Shouldn’t you be focusing on improving your poor health, rather than acting in a disturbingly gay, Bob Arum minion like way on a mma website?
You’ve been spewing the same bullshit year in and year out, yet the ufc and mma continues to expand and gain popularity. Go get your diapers changed for the day, it seems like you’ve shit in your pants again.
Weidman gets ppv points?
How many points can you get when your selling 350k ppvs?
Also Dana White said that he heard that the Mayweather-Canelo ppv has sold 2.5mil as of this moment.
Within the ppv industry it takes around a year to get the actual full tally of how many ppvs were sold.
odds are the buy rate will be lower than the first fight.
even though their 1st fight was good and competitive I think a lot of people have a “been there, done that” kind of feeling with some rematches.
THE GAYEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Another Mayweather ppv that goes under 1m, clearly a trend. Boxing ppv’s are down also.
D your a fucking idiot santa cruz weighs in at 122 lbs and made more money than all your ufc champs ufc is on a downward spiral theirs not enough competition in a sport monopolized by UFC fans lost interest including myself their are no other big promotion companies out their other than UFC D me la pela
The biggest names in the ufc get a 200k to 300k to show then a 200k winning bonus,no fighter makes more than 3mil a fight at the most and that’s the likes ov gsp, a, silva n lesnar when he fought but the rest don’t get no were near that kind ov money,compared to boxing mmam ,s pay is bull shit,angulo got 500k for a mismatch just like a 122 pound santa cruz got 750 000,even Vasquez got more than most ufc fighters get so trying to say that the ufc pays the same is laughable,