BoxRec

You know boxing is a tough game - and a short career.

You dont want to be hanging around in the ring in your 40's or risk serious health damage.

Most fighters know the score - make your money - achieve a good legacy - then get out.

Unfortunaelty alot of fighters are uneducated about money , etc and end up blowing the lot and being skint, etc.

And then they have to fight on well past their prime to pay the bills - or just stay retired and go back to living in poverty.

Ken Bucahenen - talked about fighting again recently as he was so desperate for money - how is old is that bloke now - got to be in his 60's. A once great fighter - now living in a deseperate circumstances.

Mike Tyson earned over $250 million in his career - but he was a uneducated fool - with money hungry leeches all round - had was forced to get beaten up in the ring by Lennox Lewis to pay a tax bill.

Kirkland Langs talents should have brought him richs and a luxury life - now he is a drunken -sleeping on a park bench.

So many fighters end up losing it all.

But who are the fighters - who away from Boxing - have invested their money wisely - and become successful - and what have they done with their money - away from boxing ?

Terry Downes made a fortune as a bookie as he got in on the game just when it was getting, umm, deregulated in the 1960s.

George Foreman has got to be numero uno for out of the ring earnings. The Foreman grill is everywhere.

Someone told me before

The fighter who Colin Jones knocked out for the European title - after he retired - he opened up a chain of Fitness Gyms and now is worth up to £30 million from it - and one of Denmarks top businessmen.

Billy Walker has had quite a successful time outside of boxing, property developer in Jersey

De La Hoya is challenging Foreman for out of ring earnings

Golden Boy Promotions gross up to a $1 billion a year - without Oscar throwing a punch

I believe Jim Watt invested a lot of his ring earnings in property which, together with his commentating career, has made him very comfortable. Reg Gutteridge wrote in his autobiography that Watt would have made a good Chancellor of the Exchequer as he was so shrewd financially.

That Enzo Maccaranelli must have made a few quid from Boxing surely?

dave "boy" green

Johnny Nelson runs his own employment agency I heard.

Daivd Haye use to make a nice few quid working as a Glamour Boy Versace Male Model.

Gary Lockett runs his own Personal Fitness Training Clientelle and has a growing property portfolio

He was only in the ring with Pavlik for money - and just wanted out as quick as he could - and fly home with the cheque.

Calzaghe also has a expanding property portfolio.

Surely Foreman, Ali in merchandise etc must be making a mint, Sugar Ray earned a good coin as a manager soon after he retired (Johnny Tapia) and I'm sure the Contender made him some cash.

Wasn't Billy Schwer doing okay also.

Billy Schwer - yeah I remebered he was quite successful - but cant remeber what he did.

What about Gary Jacobs ?

Oh Gary Jacobs. Try a wikipedia search or something.

FLINT ISLAND wrote:Billy Schwer - yeah I remebered he was quite successful - but cant remeber what he did.

What about Gary Jacobs ?

Didn't Schwer have a car business in Luton? Patrick Mullings was also doing something like this if I remember.

Scott Welch - made a fortune in old peoples homes.

Max Schmelling was some kind of CEO for Coco Cola in Germany, I know he was certainly not lacking financially.

I also read that Michael Olajide is doing pretty well as a fitness trainer in New York.

I think Maccaranelli made a few bob modelling wigs after the mullet he had at the Haye fight.

stujones wrote:Didn't Schwer have a car business in Luton? Patrick Mullings was also doing something like this if I remember.

Don't know about the car business, Stu, but I'm pretty sure I read in BN that Schwer is a successful motivational speaker - something Jon Thaxton also does, I believe.

chesh wrote:

stujones wrote:Didn't Schwer have a car business in Luton? Patrick Mullings was also doing something like this if I remember.

Don't know about the car business, Stu, but I'm pretty sure I read in BN that Schwer is a successful motivational speaker - something Jon Thaxton also does, I believe.

I know when he was fighting he def had bought a few houses

Just found Billy's website:

http://www.billyschwer.com/

forcefraser wrote:I think Maccaranelli made a few bob modelling wigs after the mullet he had at the Haye fight.

Marvin Hagler must be doing well for himself as he has been in the acting profession for some time now. Marvin has resided in Milan for a long time so he must be really settled there.

Marvin Hagler in INDIO (trailer)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1n92XhSGOo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWm8jTmXU7c

he can't have made that much in the INDIO films

mrrocco wrote:Larry Holmes has, I believe, got a property empire. I believe on a lower level in the UK Scott Welch has made money in old people's homes.

George Walker ( I think) was a top UK fighter and is a hugely successful businessman.

All true. Holmes basically owns Easton in Pennsylvania he's got so much