The fight pushed Mayweather’s career earnings to $1 billion, joining Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods as the only athletes to earn 10-figures since turning pro. McGregor’s cut came from co-promotor UFC, which paid the Irishman just over half its share, according to multiple sources. Mayweather’s paycheck was three times as much as his opponent, due to his role as the promoter of the bout and as the ‘A’ side of the fight. After becoming a free agent, Floyd Mayweather started to promote his own events. On Tuesday, Mayweather announced the launch of The Money Team Racing, which will attempt to qualify for its NASCAR Cup Series debut later this month in the Daytona 500. The two fighters ultimately received more than two-and-a-half times their guarantees, with Mayweather at $275 million and McGregor roughly $85 million. Money founded his own promotional entity in 2007 called Mayweather Promotions. Mayweather was guaranteed $100 million and McGregor $30 million ahead of the bout. The fight fell just short of the $600 million haul for the 2015 Pacquiao fight, but Mayweather’s paycheck was 10% bigger, thanks to a greater cut of the total revenue pie for Mayweather Promotions compared to 2015. The fight fell just short of Mayweather-Pacquiao financially, but it still produced the second-biggest numbers in the history of the sport, with 4.3 million PPV buys and a $55 million gate.

The 50-0 retired boxing great bears hard no feelings towards the 28-year-old lightweight star who. The action proved more entertaining than most expected. Floyd Mayweather has wished Gervonta Davis well after his split from Mayweather Promotions. The fight ended with a TKO in the 10 th round, pushing Mayweather’s record to 50-0. Nicknamed 'Money' through the latter part of his fighting career, Mayweather became boxing's first 1 billion athlete after he received 200 million for. During the pandemic, he expanded Mayweather Boxing + Fitness, which garnered over 6,000 franchise applications. The August 2017 bout was officially announced in June, with Mayweather and UFC serving as co-promoters. Floyd Mayweather's new goal in life is to make 1 billion through property, doubling the money he made as a championship boxer, his long-time business partner Leonard Ellerbe told Insider. Mayweather Promotions was founded in 2007 to share in the economics of promotions.

In contrast to the endless negotiations to a Pacquiao fight, Mayweather-McGregor came together rather quickly, after months of back-and-forth on social media between the biggest stars in boxing and mixed-martial-arts. “He completely changed the entire landscape of how the business of boxing is done,” says Mayweather’s longtime confidant, Leonard Ellerbe, who serves as CEO of Mayweather Promotions. Mayweather has promoted or co-promoted the four biggest fights, from a financial perspective, in the history of the sport (De La Hoya, Canelo Alvarez, Manny Pacquiao, McGregor).

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