Rumored Canelo’s $150M payday vs Crawford is bigger than the ENTIRE UFC roster combined ($140M) in 2025

[jeff7b9]

Yeah Hetfield never fucks up on guitar, he will get vocals wrong sometimes though but his rhythm playing is bulletproof. He does cheat a little bit by alternate picking some bits that he'd downpick back in the day but he's over 60 and playing thrash metal, fair enough I reckon!

Guy was a fucking machine with the down picking back in the day.

I ain't mad at him finding a more efficient way as he continues fronting a metal band in his 60s.

 

[Alpha_T83]

Now show how much money each event earns


no fucking shit ufc pays less

Yes UFC makes less, but the difference isn't as big as you think. Boxers themselves can receive up to 60% of revenues for the biggest fights. UFC fighters get like 16% of revenues.

If we estimate, Crawford made between 10-50 million dollars, and Canelo 100-150 million. So let's say between them the fight paid out $160 million, and they got 60% of the revenue. That means Canelo vs Crawford earned ~$266M. Then if we say UFC fighters earned $140m in 2025 and got 16% of the revenues, the UFC earned $875M so far in 2025.

So yea, the UFC earns more than you think it does, although if we combine all of the boxing PPVs for 2025, boxing still made more. But the bottom line is that the UFC heavily underpays their fighters compared to boxers.

 

[jeff7b9]

Canelo is vastly overpaid. Boxing is a elitist sport only the 1% of boxers get that kind of pay. The rest get very little in comparison. It's not evenly distributed like in the UFC.

You won't see this in the UFC ever. It's ridiculous kind of pay. It's irrational.

Have time and read this.

How Much Do Professional Boxers Earn - JKCP.com

Boxing can be one of the most profitable sports, but only for a few. While top-level fighters like Floyd Mayweather and Canelo Álvarez can make millions from

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I remember back around the time of (if my memory is correct) Floyd vs Manny discussing pay on here and people running their mouths about how boxers get paid and mma fighters don't...

So I looked up the purses for ... I think that exact card... I think...

Anyway, yeah Floyd made 100 mill or whatever rediculous amount

And the guys on that same card on the early slots where getting $1200 show, $1500 + $1500 show + win, $3000, $5000

The boxer on the headlining slot of the half dozen to a dozen huge fights per year make disgusting money.

And the other 99.6% make less than the guy who takes your order at the Dunkin Donuts drive thru.

Plenty of world title fights occurred with guys getting paid less than Kevin Holland too, so it's not even that all the top guys are rich, it's literally like a handful of guys at the very tip of the mountain.

 

[cmw43]

Yes UFC makes less, but the difference isn't as big as you think. Boxers themselves can receive up to 60% of revenues for the biggest fights. UFC fighters get like 16% of revenues.

If we estimate, Crawford made between 10-50 million dollars, and Canelo 100-150 million. So let's say between them the fight paid out $160 million, and they got 60% of the revenue. That means Canelo vs Crawford earned ~$266M. Then if we say UFC fighters earned $140m in 2025 and got 16% of the revenues, the UFC earned $875M so far in 2025.

So yea, the UFC earns more than you think it does, although if we combine all of the boxing PPVs for 2025, boxing still made more. But the bottom line is that the UFC heavily underpays their fighters compared to boxers.

Crawford said himself he was making $10m.

Turki Alalsheik said he's signed Canelo to a four fight deal worth over $100m and this is the second fight if the deal so he's probably making $25m-30m for this fight.

So being generous they've paid out $40m.

Where are you getting this event made $266m from?

Turki Alalshikh reveals Canelo’s eyewatering pay for Crawford clash and Saudi fights

Canelo’s bout with Crawford on Saturday is his second on a four-fight deal with Saudi Arabia

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Alpha_T83]

Crawford said himself he was making $10m.

Turki Alalsheik said he's signed Canelo to a four fight deal worth over $100m and this is the second fight if the deal so he's probably making $25m-30m for this fight.

So being generous they've paid out $40m.

Where are you getting this event made $266m from?

Turki Alalshikh reveals Canelo’s eyewatering pay for Crawford clash and Saudi fights

Canelo’s bout with Crawford on Saturday is his second on a four-fight deal with Saudi Arabia

www.independent.co.uk

You are almost certainly drastically under-estimating. Firstly, Turki is a lying rat just like Dana. Don't believe a word he says. Long-term multi-fight contracts (as you are describing them) are illegal under the Ali Act. You can have "options" for additional fights, but it can't be coercive or exclusive -- in other words, the fighter always has the choice to turn down those fights. And money in boxing is done differently from the typical multi-fight deals we see in the UFC. Money is done fight by fight, not for the total length of the contract.

Maybe Canelo signed a 4 fight deal with Turki, but each fight is negotiated separately, and at any stage Canelo has the right to walk away and void his contract, assuming it's been over a year since he signed the contract. That's how the Ali Act works, and why Dana hates it so much.

So no, you are flat wrong. Canelo made $100+ million for this fight, as is being widely reported. The link you gave me even says Canelo made at least $100M.

Now, Crawford did say he would only make $10M for this fight, but that is very likely to be his base (guaranteed) pay.

Why my math checks out: Crawford made $10-50M, Canelo $100-150M. Together that's $110-200M, for an average of $155M between the two. How they split the revenue is also a range of 40-60%, with top boxers usually taking home 60% of the revenue (as in this fight). But we can further estimate a total possible range for how much this fight makes by:

110 million combined salary divided by 60% of total revenue = $183.3M floor total revenue
200 million combined salary divided by 40% of total revenue = $500.0M ceiling total revenue

Now, do I think this fight made $500M? No. I think the fighters got 60% of the revenue, so the fight made AT LEAST $183.3M. However, if we assume the reports are accurate and Canelo made $150M and Crawford $10M, then we get $160M combined salary divided by 60% of total revenue ~= $266M total revenue.

You will not a find a report stating the total revenue at this point. It could be lower if the fighters got more than 60% of the total revenues. It would be unprecedented but not impossible.

 

[Takes Two To Tango]

I remember back around the time of (if my memory is correct) Floyd vs Manny discussing pay on here and people running their mouths about how boxers get paid and mma fighters don't...

So I looked up the purses for ... I think that exact card... I think...

Anyway, yeah Floyd made 100 mill or whatever rediculous amount

And the guys on that same card on the early slots where getting $1200 show, $1500 + $1500 show + win, $3000, $5000

The boxer on the headlining slot of the half dozen to a dozen huge fights per year make disgusting money.

And the other 99.6% make less than the guy who takes your order at the Dunkin Donuts drive thru.

Plenty of world title fights occurred with guys getting paid less than Kevin Holland too, so it's not even that all the top guys are rich, it's literally like a handful of guys at the very tip of the mountain.

Very well said, I agree totally.

 

[Alpha_T83]

I remember back around the time of (if my memory is correct) Floyd vs Manny discussing pay on here and people running their mouths about how boxers get paid and mma fighters don't...

So I looked up the purses for ... I think that exact card... I think...

Anyway, yeah Floyd made 100 mill or whatever rediculous amount

And the guys on that same card on the early slots where getting $1200 show, $1500 + $1500 show + win, $3000, $5000

The boxer on the headlining slot of the half dozen to a dozen huge fights per year make disgusting money.

And the other 99.6% make less than the guy who takes your order at the Dunkin Donuts drive thru.

Plenty of world title fights occurred with guys getting paid less than Kevin Holland too, so it's not even that all the top guys are rich, it's literally like a handful of guys at the very tip of the mountain.

This is true. Boxing is extremely top heavy. If we rank fighters as S-tier, A-tier, B-tier, etc., I wouldn't be surprised if the A and/or B tier boxers made a smaller % of overall revenues than the A and/or B tier UFC fighters.

 

[MixMartialFarts]

Yea but did Canelo's team get to keep their Rebook kits they walked out wearing?

 

[burningspear]

Crawford's 50 mil was also a nice little tickle, any young boxer signing to TKO, be warned.

 

[TankAbbott4Eva]

Guy was a fucking machine with the down picking back in the day.

I ain't mad at him finding a more efficient way as he continues fronting a metal band in his 60s.

I must admit I will crack the shits if he starts alternate picking the Puppets intro ha ha, that just HAS to be downpicked imo.

 

[Doughie99]

@BoxerMaurits
Am working at moment but this is interesting thread, I'll read the whole thing later and give my view.

goed werk.

 

[NoStoneUnturned]

You are almost certainly drastically under-estimating. Firstly, Turki is a lying rat just like Dana. Don't believe a word he says. Long-term multi-fight contracts (as you are describing them) are illegal under the Ali Act. You can have "options" for additional fights, but it can't be coercive or exclusive -- in other words, the fighter always has the choice to turn down those fights. And money in boxing is done differently from the typical multi-fight deals we see in the UFC. Money is done fight by fight, not for the total length of the contract.

Maybe Canelo signed a 4 fight deal with Turki, but each fight is negotiated separately, and at any stage Canelo has the right to walk away and void his contract, assuming it's been over a year since he signed the contract. That's how the Ali Act works, and why Dana hates it so much.

So no, you are flat wrong. Canelo made $100+ million for this fight, as is being widely reported. The link you gave me even says Canelo made at least $100M.

Now, Crawford did say he would only make $10M for this fight, but that is very likely to be his base (guaranteed) pay.

Why my math checks out: Crawford made $10-50M, Canelo $100-150M. Together that's $110-200M, for an average of $155M between the two. How they split the revenue is also a range of 40-60%, with top boxers usually taking home 60% of the revenue (as in this fight). But we can further estimate a total possible range for how much this fight makes by:

110 million combined salary divided by 60% of total revenue = $183.3M floor total revenue
200 million combined salary divided by 40% of total revenue = $500.0M ceiling total revenue

Now, do I think this fight made $500M? No. I think the fighters got 60% of the revenue, so the fight made AT LEAST $183.3M. However, if we assume the reports are accurate and Canelo made $150M and Crawford $10M, then we get $160M combined salary divided by 60% of total revenue ~= $266M total revenue.

You will not a find a report stating the total revenue at this point. It could be lower if the fighters got more than 60% of the total revenues. It would be unprecedented but not impossible.

The problem is your math is using numbers that absolutely nobody can verify, least of all you. Nobody, and I do mean nobody, knows what the actual purses were other than those directly involved. They can literally make up numbers and give those numbers to the media. Any number given to the media is 100% suspect even if provided by those involved. \

You went even further and said this "However, if we assume the reports are accurate", why would I assume they are? They are more than likely not accurate.

 

[Alpha_T83]

The problem is your math is using numbers that absolutely nobody can verify, least of all you. Nobody, and I do mean nobody, knows what the actual purses were other than those directly involved. They can literally make up numbers and give those numbers to the media. Any number given to the media is 100% suspect even if provided by those involved. \

You went even further and said this "However, if we assume the reports are accurate", why would I assume they are? They are more than likely not accurate.

So you're basically saying you don't like the answers you're getting, so you're going to choose to believe all the information be published is wrong? Except the $10M Crawford base salary that you swear is all he will get, because it fits your narrative. That's called bias.

Crawford was only signed to a base salary of $10M against Spence, but he ended up making over $20M. We can probably safely assume this fight sold even better, meaning he likely made more like $30-50M. That in turn makes it believable that Canelo made $100M+.

It's possible that Crawford/Canelo split 80% of the total revenue between them. Canelo vs GGG it was estimated that they split 80% of the total revenue between them (but this is because Canelo, like Mayweather, has his own fight promotion company). So if you really want to cherry pick minimum reported purses, we could say $110M purse between the two fighters getting 80% of the total revenue == $137.5M. But I would guess that is a drastic under-estimate of what this fight made.

 

[NoStoneUnturned]

So you're basically saying you don't like the answers you're getting, so you're going to choose to believe all the information be published is wrong? Except the $10M Crawford base salary that you swear is all he will get, because it fits your narrative. That's called bias.

Crawford was only signed to a base salary of $10M against Spence, but he ended up making over $20M. We can probably safely assume this fight sold even better, meaning he likely made more like $30-50M. That in turn makes it believable that Canelo made $100M+.

It's possible that Crawford/Canelo split 80% of the total revenue between them. Canelo vs GGG it was estimated that they split 80% of the total revenue between them (but this is because Canelo, like Mayweather, has his own fight promotion company). So if you really want to cherry pick minimum reported purses, we could say $110M purse between the two fighters getting 80% of the total revenue == $137.5M. But I would guess that is a drastic under-estimate of what this fight made.

I'm saying your guessing, and making assumptions, as is everyone else because no one knows. That isn't a guess on my part, its a fact.

Edit: I'm not saying they didn't make "good" money, I'm just not inclined to make all of the assumptions others are.

 

[Alpha_T83]

I'm saying your guessing, and making assumptions, as is everyone else because no one knows. That isn't a guess on my part, its a fact.

Edit: I'm not saying they didn't make "good" money, I'm just not inclined to make all of the assumptions others are.

I'm not guessing I'm estimating based on past trends and publicly released purses. Everything points to Canelo making $100M+ and Crawford making more than his $10M base salary.

You can call it guessing, but I think it's more likely that their combined purse is in the $150M-160M range.

 

[BoxerMaurits]

Tbh I think both need to change.
UFC minimum pay should be higher, but the money is still better distributed than in boxing. Some undercard boxers in boxing make just a couple thousand dollars, while Canelo walks away with nine figures, which is absolutely insane.

 

[BoxerMaurits]

 

[Söze Aldo]

Thats why all UFC fighters have to kiss the ring and bow to Dana and Trump and whomever else is at the Kings table while Canelo could speak his mind freely and put Dana in his place at the press conference.

 

[HHJ]

lol @ HW Roidpuria

 

[GordoBarraBJJ]

Yeah but did he get a venum coupon ??????