I think realistically (and I'm assuming a lot of buys, maybe I'm wrong and that is a variable), you're looking at Floyd getting $200M+ potentially, while I'd guess Conor will get his biggest score ever at every bit of $35/$40M once everyone else gets their hands out of the remaining portion of the money. Just guessing, but I bet that ends up close on the #s. We may never know. I can't see Conor getting $100M, even with incentives. Not with InDemandPPV(or whatever that is), and UFC/Showtime/Dana in the mix for the grand total of whatever cash is left to be had. The PPV provider gets a ton, right? Like maybe 50% of the take? I forget, so don't quote me on that one, but it's a LOT. A very high % of PPV revenue goes to the provider (InDemandPPV).
And either way, both fighters will hit that fun tax bracket this year and get tax raped, what 35% off the top of your purse to Uncle Sam alone, before state and city taxes? So Floyd will drop $70M from $200M if he garners that. Drop it to $130M and then pay state/local taxes on that amount. Say Conor gets even $50M and BANG, Uncle Same takes $17.5M straight off for his trouble. I wish I had that problem, just pointing out the federal gubblemint squeezes hard on these types of paydays for these guys. Brutal hits.
Again though, I wish I had that problem.
Caveat being, I don't know shit on how this is set-up, so I'm just taking what I feel is a reasonable guesstimate and talking out of my ass.
