Canelo Alvarez defeated Caleb Plant on Saturday night at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Vegas to unify all belts at 168 pounds. The fight earned him a big reported payday as the feature fighters split a $50 million fight purse. Alvarez reportedly made $40 million and the challenger Plant earned $10 million. In addition, […]
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Top Rank Boxing on ESPN draws 1.306M viewers for Stevenson-Herring feature
Top Rank Boxing drew 1.306M viewers on ESPN Saturday night for its fight featuring Shakur Stevenson taking on Jamel Herring. Stevenson stopped the former champion in round 10 of a fight that the former Olympian dominated in winning the WBO junior lightweight title. The event drew 0.37 in the A18-49 demo, 0.27 in F18-49, 0.47 […]
Purses from Garcia-Martin
The California State Athletic Commission disclosed the purses from Saturday night’s Matchroom/DAZN card. Despite his loss, Mikey Garcia netted $1.5 million. The purses are as follows: Mikey Garcia $1.5M Sandor Martin $150,000 Marc Castro $14,000 Angel Luna $8,000 Elwin Soto $75,000 Jonathan Gonzalez $15,000 Jesse Rodriguez $20,000 Jose Burgos $16,000 Brock Jarvis $20,000 Alejandro Frias […]
Report: Wilder-Fury III draws almost 600K PPV buys
Kevin Iole of Yahoo! Sports reports that the Deontay Wilder-Tyson Fury fight on October 12th drew “just under” 600K PPV buys in the US and another 300K in international PPV. The report would seem to conclude that the trilogy did not live up to expectations on PPV. The third fight between Wilder and Fury saw […]