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"Floyd Mayweather set to earn millions before he throws a single punch at Conor McGregor" (Source: FOX Sports)

FLOYD Mayweather will earn $25 million ($31.7m) before throwing a single punch or even stepping inside the ropes against Conor McGregor.

The 49-0 king of boxing will earn the eye-watering payday from sponsorship and branding deals that will appear on the ring, on his hat and on his robe and shorts, according to the Telegraph.

The shorts are far and away the most expensive space on Mayweather’s body. His sponsorship partners, One Entertainment, broke the trunks down into six separate sponsorship areas, which when added all together are worth $15 million (A$19m).

Here is a breakdown of Mayweather’s full sponsorship payday (in USD):

• Ring sponsorships: $5 million

• Robe: $1 million

• Shoes: $1 million

• Weigh-in trunks: $1 million

• Victory hat: $1 million

• Walk-out cap: $.5 million

• Fight shorts, front waist: Over $3.5 million

• Fight shorts, front seams: $3.5 million

• Fight short, rear center: $3 million

• Fight short, rear waist: $2 million

• Fight short, front thigh: $1.5 million

• Fight short, rear thigh: $1.5 million

Unbelievably, a betting company already has purchased the space on just the ring cushion behind Mayweather’s head for a cool $3.1 million.

While the sponsorship money is huge, it is just a drop in the bucket for the August 26 (August 27 EST) superfight. If all goes according to plan and between four and five million people buy the fight on pay-per-view, the whole event could bring in nearly $600 million, according to ESPN.

Unfortunately, there is no way to know how much each fighter will earn because they both signed nondisclosure agreements, but most boxing experts believe Mayweather is getting between 60 and 70 per cent of the total.

Thoughts?

It reminds me of NASCAR where the logos of sponsors are put in every space on the car and driver's clothes. For a brief time, boxers were having words or website names put on their backs, but the commissions put a stop to that. McGregor received a custom made robe from Versace and McGregor likes it, so I assume that is what he will be wearing when he enters the ring. It has his name and nickname "Notorious" on it. I read that the Monster Energy claw logo will be on McGregor's shorts. In addition to Monster Energy drinks, McGregor is also sponsored by Reebok and Bud Light. Maybe there are plans for their logos to be shown in some way by McGregor. It seems that Mayweather is going to have a lot more sponsors and therefore more money made from this than McGregor for this fight, but McGregor is expected to get more sponsors because of this fight. It is interesting to me that, in spite of their trash talking, companies still want to sponsor them. Money talks.

RScarf1 wrote:Money talks.

... yeah but it just keeps saying the same thing over and over again ... (don't listen) ...