"Money" could join Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods in earning over a billion dollars from their respective sports.
Floyd Mayweather's nickname of "Money" remains apt as ever as the former five-weight champion's career earnings are expected to cross $1bn (£0.76bn) following his fight with Conor McGregor on 26 August.
Mayweather's current career earnings, which include endorsement deals, are projected at more than $750m (£573.5m), according to MMAJunkie which trumps any other combat fighter on the planet.
Mayweather Promotions CEO Leonard Ellerbe expects the 40-year-old to cross the 10-figure mark and join the likes of Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods as the only sportsmen to boast career earnings of over a billion dollars.
"I think after this fight, he'll be one of three athletes along with Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods to go over a billion dollars," Ellerbe told MMAjunkie. "I don't think he's done too bad in his career."
Some rich folks pay the taxes as soon as the money comes in so there're no hassles... But very many don't, because money makes money... 100 million dollars earning just 5% a year makes 5 million dollars.. So every month it makes well over 400 thousand dollars -- so they keep their money for as long as they can.
Sounds like Floyd has a shot since he already has earned over a half-billion already. Pac is # 2. Oscar is #3, somewhere over $250 million then Holyfield & Tyson are #4 and #5 with about $250 million each (that's 1/4 billion).
Who would have ever believed back in the 1990s, when Holyfield & Tyson were racking up PPV dollars that 3 smaller fighters would eventually surpass those 2 heavyweight legends in PPV earnings?
Best Coast wrote:Who would have ever believed back in the 1990s, when Holyfield & Tyson were racking up PPV dollars that 3 smaller fighters would eventually surpass those 2 heavyweight legends in PPV earnings?
Inflation has a lot to do with it. The dollar is losing value because of the U.S. national debt which Obama nearly doubled during his presidency from about $10 trillion to $20 trillion.
Shame that the biggest money earner in boxing history, despite his talent, is a clod. The biggest tragedy of it all is that guys like Ali and Frazier, who really deservef this type of payday, never had that money to get.
Best Coast wrote:Who would have ever believed back in the 1990s, when Holyfield & Tyson were racking up PPV dollars that 3 smaller fighters would eventually surpass those 2 heavyweight legends in PPV earnings?
Inflation has a lot to do with it. The dollar is losing value because of the U.S. national debt which Obama nearly doubled during his presidency from about $10 trillion to $20 trillion.
You're got it DEAD WRONG like a lot of knee jerk Trumpists.. Bill Clinton left Dubya a budget surplus of 275 Billion a year and 8 straight years of prosperity.. Dubya eventually turned that into 2 deep economic recessions including the Great Recession.. and Dubya turned that surplus into a 1.6 Trillion dollar ANNUAL deficit by the time he left Obama with massive unemployment... rapidly worsening taxpayer debt... a crashed stock market... and corporate bailouts passed during Dubya's final months in office that amounted to 100's of Billions paid out to Wall Street Investment Banks, the Auto Industry, and unemployment compensation for many millions thrown out of work..
Dubya Bush also put us into 2 unpaid for wars in Afghanistan and Iran... and an unpaid for drug bill written by Big Pharma.
Under Obama we experienced NO MORE recessions... steadily rising employment... and our annual taxpayer deficit coming down from 1.6 Trillion to 300 Billion... It's not perfect, but it's kind of hard to cure cancer too... I expect Obama's gains to be swiftly reversed by a guy who's as clueless as Dubya.
Kalan wrote:You're got it DEAD WRONG like a lot of knee jerk Trumpists.. Bill Clinton left Dubya a budget surplus of 275 Billion a year and 8 straight years of prosperity.. Dubya eventually turned that into 2 deep economic recessions including the Great Recession.. and Dubya turned that surplus into a 1.6 Trillion dollar ANNUAL deficit by the time he left Obama with massive unemployment... rapidly worsening taxpayer debt... a crashed stock market... and corporate bailouts passed during Dubya's final months in office that amounted to 100's of Billions paid out to Wall Street Investment Banks, the Auto Industry, and unemployment compensation for many millions thrown out of work..
Dubya Bush also put us into 2 unpaid for wars in Afghanistan and Iran... and an unpaid for drug bill written by Big Pharma.
Under Obama we experienced NO MORE recessions... steadily rising employment... and our annual taxpayer deficit coming down from 1.6 Trillion to 300 Billion... It's not perfect, but it's kind of hard to cure cancer too... I expect Obama's gains to be swiftly reversed by a guy who's as clueless as Dubya.
You are the one who is clueless. Obama called Dubya unpatriotic for his spending and then Obama spent a lot more than Dubya. Obama nearly doubled the national debt. This is a fact. That is why the dollar value is dropping and you have to spend more to buy the same amount of food and health care costs have skyrocketed thanks to Obamacare. The employment rate is a farce. It does not include people who stopped looking for work. Obama is the worst president the United States has ever had and it will probably never fully recover. The economy affects everything, including boxing. It affects whether people go to boxing events, spend money on cable and pay-per-view. The whole world is adversely affected by what Obama has done. Both political parties suck. They both have done damage to America, but Obama is by far the worst POS to ever have been elected as the POTUS.
Kalan wrote:You're got it DEAD WRONG like a lot of knee jerk Trumpists.. Bill Clinton left Dubya a budget surplus of 275 Billion a year and 8 straight years of prosperity.. Dubya eventually turned that into 2 deep economic recessions including the Great Recession.. and Dubya turned that surplus into a 1.6 Trillion dollar ANNUAL deficit by the time he left Obama with massive unemployment... rapidly worsening taxpayer debt... a crashed stock market... and corporate bailouts passed during Dubya's final months in office that amounted to 100's of Billions paid out to Wall Street Investment Banks, the Auto Industry, and unemployment compensation for many millions thrown out of work..
Dubya Bush also put us into 2 unpaid for wars in Afghanistan and Iran... and an unpaid for drug bill written by Big Pharma.
Under Obama we experienced NO MORE recessions... steadily rising employment... and our annual taxpayer deficit coming down from 1.6 Trillion to 300 Billion... It's not perfect, but it's kind of hard to cure cancer too... I expect Obama's gains to be swiftly reversed by a guy who's as clueless as Dubya.
You are the one who is clueless. Obama called Dubya unpatriotic for his spending and then Obama spent a lot more than Dubya. Obama nearly doubled the national debt. This is a fact. That is why the dollar value is dropping and you have to spend more to buy the same amount of food and health care costs have skyrocketed thanks to Obamacare. The employment rate is a farce. It does not include people who stopped looking for work. Obama is the worst president the United States has ever had and it will probably never fully recover. The economy affects everything, including boxing. It affects whether people go to boxing events, spend money on cable and pay-per-view. The whole world is adversely affected by what Obama has done. Both political parties suck. They both have done damage to America, but Obama is by far the worst POS to ever have been elected as the POTUS.
Republicans love to sculpt statistics to suit their propaganda... Dubya sent the US economy crashing into the abyss... and left Obama with a 1.6 Trillion dollar annual deficit and many obligations... while Bill Clinton left Dubya with an ANNUAL SURPLUS and 8 straight years of economic prosperity...Obama had to continue to pay for Dubya's GREAT RECESSION... He had to keep paying for Dubya's debt from the Afghanistan and Iraqi wars... He had to keep paying for Dubya's crashed ecomony... Dubya's Wall Street bail outs... Dubya's General Motors and other Corporate bailouts... The Big Pharma written drug bill.. You can't stop spending when the previous mayor burns the town down... You have to look at ANNUAL TAXPAYER DEBT -- and what DIRECTION it headed when a guy spent 8 years in office.
With Reagan, Bush, and Dubya the annual deficit skyrocketed through the roof... During Clinton and Obama the annual deficit came WAY DOWN from what they inherited on the day they took office... Clinton and Obama were as frugal with taxpayer dollars as they could possibly be -- Reagan, Bush, and Dubya spent like drunken sailors on holiday with somebody else's money.
Kalan wrote:You're got it DEAD WRONG like a lot of knee jerk Trumpists.. Bill Clinton left Dubya a budget surplus of 275 Billion a year and 8 straight years of prosperity.. Dubya eventually turned that into 2 deep economic recessions including the Great Recession.. and Dubya turned that surplus into a 1.6 Trillion dollar ANNUAL deficit by the time he left Obama with massive unemployment... rapidly worsening taxpayer debt... a crashed stock market... and corporate bailouts passed during Dubya's final months in office that amounted to 100's of Billions paid out to Wall Street Investment Banks, the Auto Industry, and unemployment compensation for many millions thrown out of work..
Dubya Bush also put us into 2 unpaid for wars in Afghanistan and Iran... and an unpaid for drug bill written by Big Pharma.
Under Obama we experienced NO MORE recessions... steadily rising employment... and our annual taxpayer deficit coming down from 1.6 Trillion to 300 Billion... It's not perfect, but it's kind of hard to cure cancer too... I expect Obama's gains to be swiftly reversed by a guy who's as clueless as Dubya.
You are the one who is clueless. Obama called Dubya unpatriotic for his spending and then Obama spent a lot more than Dubya. Obama nearly doubled the national debt. This is a fact. That is why the dollar value is dropping and you have to spend more to buy the same amount of food and health care costs have skyrocketed thanks to Obamacare. The employment rate is a farce. It does not include people who stopped looking for work. Obama is the worst president the United States has ever had and it will probably never fully recover. The economy affects everything, including boxing. It affects whether people go to boxing events, spend money on cable and pay-per-view. The whole world is adversely affected by what Obama has done. Both political parties suck. They both have done damage to America, but Obama is by far the worst POS to ever have been elected as the POTUS.
I absolutely agree that Obama was the worst US Prez in history. He turned the US military into a social engineering experiment, with his scrapping of Clinton's "dont ask dont tell" policy in favor of open homosexuality. Homosexual rape (of enlisted men by officers) is now a problem that the US military NEVER had to deal with before Obama. If Obama was serious about the military as a fighting force instead of a social engineering lab, ISIS would have been defeated LONG AGO.
Thanks to Obama we now have public schools threatened with loss of federal funding if they dont allow "transgenders" to use whatever bathroom in school that they want, even if it's not the gender on their birth certificate. So if Tommy is feeling today "like a female trapped in a male body" he can use the girl's toilet regardless of his real gender.
Or as a friend of mine so aptly put it:
Kennedy put a man into space...Nixon put a man on the moon...Obama put a man in the girl's bathroom!!
Kalan wrote:Republicans love to sculpt statistics to suit their propaganda... Dubya sent the US economy crashing into the abyss... and left Obama with a 1.6 Trillion dollar annual deficit and many obligations... while Bill Clinton left Dubya with an ANNUAL SURPLUS and 8 straight years of economic prosperity...Obama had to continue to pay for Dubya's GREAT RECESSION... He had to keep paying for Dubya's debt from the Afghanistan and Iraqi wars... He had to keep paying for Dubya's crashed ecomony... Dubya's Wall Street bail outs... Dubya's General Motors and other Corporate bailouts... The Big Pharma written drug bill.. You can't stop spending when the previous mayor burns the town down... You have to look at ANNUAL TAXPAYER DEBT -- and what DIRECTION it headed when a guy spent 8 years in office.
I am an independent voter. I am not Republican. I just want fiscal responsibility. Dubya did overspend, but Obama was much worse. Obama increased the U.S. national debt more than all the previous presidents combined from George Washington to George Bush. Obama continued the bailouts of the car companies and agreed with Dubya's decision. Obama said it was the right thing to do. I did not agree with it. Ford did not take bailout money. I will not buy a car from the companies that took bailout money. My car is a Ford. When Obama was a presidential candidate in 2008, he said that he agreed with the federal bailout of Wall Street and that he would defend corporate interests if he was elected. Trump is in a mess now. He has to deal with Obamacare. The Affordable Care Act has made insurance less affordable. Obama did not anticipate that people would rather pay the penalty than buy the health insurance because they simply cannot afford it. If Obamacare continues, it will add trillions to the national debt. If Obamacare was so great, why did Congress get to opt out? They did not want it for themselves and their families. I did not agree with the prescription drug Medicare law from Dubya, but it was billions of dollars and not trillions. Obamacare is going to cost trillions. When Obama was a presidential candidate, he supported the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. He said that fighting terrorism would be his top priority. You want to play the blame game. All Democrats do that.
