British middles career earnings??

[hurlock]

Anyone know???
We got barker, macklin & Murray they must of all earnt a few quid now prob Murray the least

[wrimc]

Anyone know???
We got barker, macklin & Murray they must of all earnt a few quid now prob Murray the least

I'll have a crack these figures are based some on speculation and some on supposed purse figures from articles.

Barker: £1.5 million

Sturm £1 million, Geale £100k? Martinez £250k. I expect he probably made about £200k up until his big paydays from purses at British/Euro level maybe more

Macklin: £1.25 million

Macklin: Asikainen £75k, Sturm £250k, Martinez, £250k, Alcine £100k, GGG £250k, Russ £50k with approximately 200k in purses from British/ Euro level.

Murray: £550k

Prizefighter £32k, Sturm £100k, Martinez £250k Harder to say with paydays for other fights but I would estimate 175k from other purses as he has some arena fights against decentish opponents

[rubberneck]

Less 40% tax. National insurance.
Manager fee. Trainers fee.

Barker made £850k the other day.

Less the deductions above I say he takes home.....

£370k.

Unless he set himself as a limited company to limit his tax liability.

I read somewhere that his purse for the Martinez fight was in the region of $350 000, which is about £210 000.
Power777 is right, once you take away tax and expenses he'll probably be lucky to pocket half of it.

[Benelio]

Training expenses would be completely tax deductable, surely?

[TheCobra]

Yeh I would think most major boxers would set up a limited company? Surely? The most tax efficient way to do things and save a stack on National Insurance too.

[mickey1975]

Nobody on here, except a few very well informed posters, has a clue what these guys have earned. It's pure speculation.

[Londonirish]

Nobody on here, except a few very well informed posters, has a clue what these guys have earned. It's pure speculation.

[mickey1975]

Nobody on here, except a few very well informed posters, has a clue what these guys have earned. It's pure speculation.

But Barkers Sturm purse is quite well documented.
The rest? No bloody idea!

Really? Well I heard the figure £840,000. Plus nobody knows his deal with Sims, his training expenses, his tax bracket, income from sponsorship, etc. you can have a guess, but could be way out, either way.

[lefty]

Bit personal innit. A fighters earnings. I say this as a nosey bastard myself.

[Benelio]

Bit personal innit. A fighters earnings. I say this as a nosey bastard myself.

Agreed, but given that the purses seem to dictate the direction of who fights who and the direction of a sport that we pay for - I'd argue that 'public interest' in fighter's earnings is fairly justifiable.

[hurlock]

It's a hard sport & people seem to think fighters earn fortunes, I think it should be known so that young kids have a career path for after boxing or whilst there boxing.

Barker has worked hard to get where he did!! He flourished @ British & European level as did macklin with a few hiccups & that in itself takes special talent & the rewards ain't as great as people think like once all the expenses & tax are paid its easy to squander money by just living off it like fighters like Dennis Andries would

[Parson Cross]

Boxers earnings are no one's business but the boxer himself and his close knit team. Have to say though some of the fantasy figures put about make me laugh.

[Black Sam Bellamy]

If Macklin & Murray got £250k a piece for fighting Martinez, I'll eat my hat.

[expe]

Barker's purse for Sturm was either £1 million or 1 million euros, it was reported as 1 million but I don't know what currency that's in.