Want to raise passion among combat sport fans? Advise the world the death of a sport. This happened with ESPN Pardon The Interruption recently as Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon, the Stadler and Waldorf of the network talking heads decried that boxing was dead. Certainly, a part of this proclamation was to ignite a fire. […]
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Record promotional spending for Mayweather-Canelo
The Sports Business Journal (subscription only) reports on the record breaking night for boxing this Saturday night. Aside from Floyd Mayweather’s astronomical guaranteed purse and gate, the article details the money invested and anticipated from the event. CBS, Showtime and other television distributors will spend between $80 to $100 million in promotional value for the […]
Mayweather guaranteed $41.5 million
Floyd “Money” Mayweather is guaranteed $41.5 million in his upcoming fight with Canelo Alvarez. Mayweather’s take and some other hefty financial terms were revealed regarding the September 14th event entitled, “The One”. According to Forbes, the Mayweather guaranteed payday is even before any of the PPV cut which is to approximate a total of $140 […]
UFC Fight Night 26: Payout Perspective
Welcome to a special edition of Payout Perspective. This time we take a look at last Saturday’s Fox Sports 1 taking place at the TD Garden in Boston. Sonnen subs Shogun Chalk another one up for the bad guy. Chael Sonnen looked good. Or, Shogun Rua looked bad. Sonnen scored a first round guillotine choke […]
Mayweather-Canelo set gate record; Garcia-Matthyse added to undercard
Golden Boy Promotions’ Richard Schaefer announced during a conference call that the Canelo Alvarez-Floyd Mayweather, Jr. fight will set a new gate record as it will garner a reported $19,500,000 on September 14th. It was also announced Wednesday that Danny Garcia versus Lucas Matthyse will be on the undercard of the Alvarez-Mayweather fight. The reported […]