Floyd Mayweather was quick to spend his reported $180million purse for fighting and beating Manny Pacquiao.
Mayweather and Pacquiao met in the highest grossing boxing pay-per-view event of all time in May 2015, an event that generated unprecedented revenue.
A whole host of the biggest celebrity names flocked to Las Vegas to see the pair do battle, which saw Mayweather outbox Pacquiao to pick up a superb points victory.
It was a captivating battle that finally took place after years of rivalry, and the numbers behind the event were record-breaking.
The event generated in excess of $300m in total revenue, with Mayweather pocketing $180m of that.
Pacquiao took home a reported $120m payout, and it was life-changing fortune for both fighters.
Eventual winner Mayweather had been accustomed to living a life of luxury and extravagance, having left his promotional deal to start earning a small fortune from every time he stepped in the ring.
But his purse for beating ‘Pac Man’ was the highest of his career, and he couldn’t help but pick himself up a reward.
Mayweather announced five months afterwards that he had bought himself a new car to add to his frightening collection.
Mayweather bought a brand new black chrome 2015 Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse.
The luxury vehicle had a custom-design and was worth a purchase value of $3.5m, which ‘TBE’ decided to fork out.
It is a vehicle capable of maximum speed of around 210mph, and was yet another supercar to add to his lucrative collection.
Mayweather is now reported to have a car collection worth around £20m in the present day, including the gift to himself in 2015.
His lucrative clash with Pacquiao set him up with generational wealth, and sent the magnitude of his profile into a new stratosphere.
But he wasn’t done at 48 victories without defeat as he decided to fight two more times to reach the magic 50-0.
Mayweather outpointed Andre Berto in a defence of his WBC welterweight title later that year.
And in a lucrative final bow, ‘Money’ came close to matching his lucrative Pacquiao victory in a huge event with Conor McGregor.
The 2017 clash saw him pick up a final victory against the Irish UFC star with a dominant stoppage win.
And he pocketed another purse around the $100m mark, after the event generated around $600m in total revenue.
It was the second highest of his career and as he retired, his lifestyle continued as luxury, but he has since also made a series of intelligent investments.
Mayweather has also been fighting in multiple lucrative exhibition outings, against the likes of Logan Paul, Deji and Aaron Chalmers.
“I will continue to give back to the sport of boxing in my time, and I will also give back financially because I got it,” Mayweather said
“To my team, my guys in New York, and my other real estate team that’s here today, we can’t be stopped.
“In 32 months, I put myself in a position with a smart business team to make $300m a month. It all started from the sport of boxing.”
Usyk has cleared out all of the main competition in the heavyweight division in the last six years since moving up from cruiserweight. He left the weight class below as undisputed champion and recently repeated that feat at heavyweight. He twice beat Anthony Joshua to relive him of his three world titles and then defend them in a second fight, and wasn’t significantly hurt in either on his way to a brace of points victories.
This is the natural next fight for these long time British rivals and would be a legacy defining contest that would be of great interest to fans.
The big hitter from Baltimore has said he would knock Crawford out in the past, perhaps tongue in cheek, but the bigger man has warned him not to punch above his weight. Whilst a fight is highly unlikely to ever take place, some believe it wouldn’t be a foregone conclusion.
Cause they both have very high IQs and Tank is very explosive. That’s the one thing that Tank got that Errol [Spence] didn’t have. In boxing, an explosive fighter can go a lot of places. I was only able to cover the weights that I covered because I was so explosive. Explosiveness keeps people in check.”
“But I can really see Joshua winning that fight, to be honest. If he goes in and does what he has to do and does not think so much. I think Joshua thinks a lot. He doubts himself a lot as well. I don’t think he has a lot of self-motivation or self-confidence.
“I think the brands are so strong,” DuBoef told Sky Sports. “In the UK, the country would stop for an hour to see what happens and I think that’s a wonderful thing. They’re like peanut butter and jelly, Joshua and Fury, they go together.”
“Fury is a massive favourite but I think in general he was always a slight favourite (against Joshua),” Jones told the 5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce podcast.
Shields, widely regarded as the ‘GWOAT’, has built up an illustrious career since debuting in 2017. She is set to face Danielle Perkins on February 2.
I don’t know if it’s something that can happen, but I know that I can whip Jake Paul’s a** and people who are against that are just sexist and they don’t know boxing. It’s very strange to me that they think that a YouTuber can beat a woman boxer who has two Olympic gold medals, (multiple) world titles and fought as a heavyweight.
Gervonta “Tank” Davis is regarded as one of the most destructive fighters of his generation, carrying a legacy that often draws comparisons to the legendary Mike Tyson. With an undefeated record of 30-0, including 28 knockout victories, Davis has consistently demonstrated a level of power that leaves opponents sprawled on the canvas.
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“Sooner or later, in the coming weeks, we will want to put a plan together for Anthony Joshua. That is when the conversations will come with Frank Warren, Spencer Brown [Fury’s manager] and His Excellency [Turki Alalshikh] and say, ‘we want to make AJ-Fury what do you think? We’ll go from there.”
