OT: How Golden Boy can afford to pay Mayweather $40+ million

speeds · Sep 13, 2013

Answer: they'll make less than $10-million after the dust settles even with record setting PPV buys, a record setting gate, and everything else. The UFC supposedly makes more than that for a card that only gets a quarter million buys.

Great article below by Jonathan "Don't call me Edward" Snowden:

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...lden-boy-can-afford-to-pay-floyd-415-million?

"On a Mayweather fight, we have extremely thin margins," Schaefer said. "Somebody asked me the other day if we were going to make $10 million. I said 'Are you crazy?' No way. A fraction of that. Which is OK. Golden Boy is doing about 100 televised events a year. We are making our money with volume, like Walmart or Costco. They can sell their merchandise for less.

"It's been a key to our success attracting fighters. Because we have such great volume and work on such small margins, we are able to put more money in the fighters' pockets. And who doesn't like that?"
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