Mayweather to receive big money per fight with Showtime/CBS regardless of PPV numbers

By Boxing News - 02/24/2013 - Comments

mayweather82By Allan Fox: Floyd Mayweather Jr. stands to do incredibly well with his new six-fight contract with Showtime/CBS, and all he needs to do is to try and complete it within 30 months and he’ll be a very, very rich man for a long time.

According to the Boston Herald, Mayweather has “been given a guaranteed minimum buy rate regardless of what his future PPV fights generate.” The number that they believe Mayweather is getting for each fight as a minimum is $30 million. That’s huge because that’s just the minimum, and his fights are likely to do really well even if he faces weak opposition.

Mayweather will be fighting Robert Guerrero on May 4th as the starting point for his contract with Showtime, and from there it’s unknown who he’ll face.

Writer Ron Borges believes Mayweather already has six fighters approved – Alfredo Angulo, Canelo, Marcos Maidana, Devon Alexander, Danny Garcia and Guerrero – and if he faces just those guys then Mayweather will have a great chance of getting through them with his unbeaten record still intact.

The money that Mayweather will make for each fight is mind boggling. If $30 million is truly the starting point for each fight, we could see Mayweather upwards into the $40 million area if his fights do well.

Unfortunately for him, the only fighter from that list that is a draw with fans is Canelo Alvarez, and the problem here is he may get beaten in his next fight on the undercard of Mayweather’s fight against Guerrero on May 4th.

Canelo will likely face WBA World junior middleweight champion Austin Trout on that date, and that’s like going to be a really tough fight for Canelo. Trout is capable of beating him. A fight between Mayweather-Canelo will still do well even if Canelo gets beaten by Trout, but there will be a lot of pressure on Mayweather to fight Trout and not Canelo.

Mayweather will be put in a bad position where he’ll have to decide on whether to take a very risky bout against the southpaw Trout or bypass him in a ducking move and face Canelo anyway.



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