Do you believe Tank Davis made $25 million in the Frank Martin fight?

[maguirre]

That's what this writer Frank Yemi reported:

June 16, 2024

"Davis set for hefty payday with estimated earnings up to $25 million,
while Martin expected to take home $3.25 million."

https://www.thesportster.com/gervont...rses-earnings/


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Take a look at another report from MSN:

"According to Sporty Salaries, $2 million is guaranteed for Gervonta Davis in the bout with Frank Martin. Frank Martin, the opponent, might get up to $500k, which would be the biggest payday of his career.

On fight day, if the bout between Frank Martin and Gervonta Davis surpasses the 800k pay-per-view sales mark, Gervonta Davis will potentially earn a maximum of $10 million. In comparison, Frank Martin may earn a maximum of $1.5 million."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/oth...ke/ar-BB1nZ2NC

[crimsonfalcon07]

Good for him if he did.

[LarryMerchant'sBottle]

No, the second article is closer to what Tank ended up earning. Which is still good, in my opinion. Love him or hate him, Tank is still one of the, if not the best paid American boxers. He's highly skilled, entertaining with dynamite in his fists.

[tomhawq]

Clearly made up numbers in the first report. He pulled figures out of his ass just to worship his hero Davis. The exaggeration is getting worse even when Showtime has exited boxing. You gotta be a complete idiot to believe such numbers. You'd wonder where uncle Al Haymon got that money from. And his co-main Benavidez's purse is not yet even included in those figures. $25 million for such a small fight. That's equivalent to 10 fight events on free TV. Spence's guarantee in the Crawford fight was reported to be $1.5 mil. And that fight was fifty times bigger.

[TelMex]

Mange that money correctly and future generations will be set for life.

[daggum]

Mange that money correctly and future generations will be set for life.

future generations of mor-ons like tank? this is how we get tru-mps and musks. the anti-meritocracy

[brettWall]

Makes me wonder why some people are quick to believe such clearly exaggerated figures. Maybe because, unlike some of us, they didn't keep track of figures in the last decade or so. And it could be DAZN/Hearn's fault. But DAZN venturing into boxing was a start-up company at that time. They're willing to spend millions if not billion dollars back then.

PBC followers not content in getting outmatched by the figures, they started exaggerating figures for their fighters. Wilder, for example, pre-DAZN, made $2 mil in the Luis Ortiz 1 fight. He made an average of $1 mil in his 2-3 previous fights. Which simply means those were the prevailing values of fighters in big fights and what PBC could afford to pay. And they are big are even to this day. They never reached as high as $4 mil to $7 mil.

How is it that it shot up to $25 million for one fighter alone for a small fight like Martin vs Davis? Where did the money come from?

[daggum]

Makes me wonder why some people are quick to believe such clearly exaggerated figures. Maybe because, unlike some of us, they didn't keep track of figures in the last decade or so. And it could be DAZN/Hearn's fault. But DAZN venturing into boxing was a start-up company creating content at that time. They're willing to spend millions if not a billion dollars back then.

PBC followers not content in getting outmatched by the figures, they started exaggerating figures for their fighters. Wilder, for example, made $2 mil in the first Luis Ortiz fight. He made an average of $1 mil in his 2-3 previous fights. Which simply means those are the prevailing values of fighters in big fights and what PBC could afford to pay. They never reached as high as $5 mil to $7 mil.

How is it that it shot up to $25 million for one fighter for a small fight like Martin vs Davis? Where did the money come from?

its not true. its promoter propaganda so other fighters will want to join up with them and not rival promoters. articles always say fighter so and so "but will make much more" but that is based on what? not official purses. its based on behind the scenes deals that fighters have with their promoters and no one knows if they even exist or the terms of those deals. wilder who is a very stu-pid individual, im sure did not negotiate a very good deal with haymon so the reports of wilder getting huge money seem unreasonable. the lack of transparency im sure is used to promoters advantage and not the fighters.

[brettWall]

I remember an article about Algieri complaining about getting screwed by his manager in his fight with Spence, whose reported purse was $350K. Algieri's was $500K. Those are huge numbers even to this day, especially for undercard fighters, who average $100K per fight, maybe even less.

Cotto reportedly made $15 million and Canelo made $5 million in their fight. Now they're telling us Tank made more than their combined earnings in the Martin fight! How is this even possible? The size difference of those fights are like night and day!

[rickJen]

No wonder Norman turned down $1.7 million for the Ennis fight because of these exaggerated figures.

How do you measure size of fights, btw? Probably by feel like the way it is hyped, social media coverage, etc.
Garcia vs Haney was probably the most viral fight in boxing's living memory. Yet there was no reported PPV figures, purses, etc.
Is it because it's not a PBC fight? Haney vs Prograis made decent amount of hype. It's not big, it's not small. Yet no PPV reported.

But how do you measure size of fights exactly? Well the winning bid in the Haney vs Martin fight was $2.42 million, which is shared by 2 fighters.
Maybe we can use that as a basis for other fights.