Boxers payday

[Warrior189]

How does a boxer get pay? Does it depends on the scheduled rounds they have?

[SOUTHPAW]

The going rate for most lower tiered pro's is about $200.00 bucks per round.

[T-3]

If it's professional, it's all worked out in a contract. You, better yet, your manager, will negotiate your pay with the promoter and sign a contract on the agreed amount. The "going" rate, for starters, is about $100-$200 a round. You wll get paid for the entire fight, not per round. For example, you sign a contract for a 4 round fight at $800. You will get paid $800 whether or not the fight goes the distance. The business end of boxing isn't the greatest. All promoters are out to make money and some will try to "nickel and dime" you all the way or scam you all together. So make sure you CYA on the business end. Read the contract carefully and thoroughly; that's where a good manager helps.

[Mike Brewer]

A boxer's pay (along with a manager's pay, promoter's fees, etc.) are all covered in the contract. the guys are right about rates, but something you need to know if you're going to become a pro is that you have to be a strong negotiator - and you have to be willing to walk away from a show now and then. $800 for a four-round smoker sounds okay at first, but once you pay your corner, the promoter (isn't he making money on you anyway?), and whomever else you have to pay, the money disappears fast. I wouldn't take the $200 a round much past my second fight, especially if I was putting on good fights. If no one was willing to pay $300 or $350 a round, I'd find a new promoter/manager. In my mind, by the time you have 5 fights and a winning record (with crowd pleasing wins) under you, there's no reason not to make $1200 or better a fight. You're worth it if your skills and showmanship are good, and you can bet the promoters are making more than enough to cover themselves. Bottom line: negotiate and recheck the contract details carefully!

[Warrior189]

So those it matter what weight class your in. Could a featherweight get more money than lets say a heavyweight if the featherweight has a better manger? Or does heavyweights get payed more then any other weight class? If so how come? Different weight classes go through the same pain as a heavyweight boxer in their own weight class do.

[Warrior189]

Yeah so no one can't answer my question then huh?

[Mike Brewer]

What matters most is how good you are, how much of a following you have, and how much money your handlers negotiate for you. If all those are in place, sure you could make more than a heavyweight. De La Hoya, Gatti, Mayweather, Spinks, Sugar Ray Leonard, and tons of others regularly made paydays north of the heavyweights. The reason it's so easy for a good heavyweight to get a decent payday is because they produce exciting knockouts. That's what the crowd is there to see.

[Warrior189]

So if you have all that and if featherweight boxer gives a good show in every match he has he'll get paid as the same amount or more then some heavyweight.

[TerryV]

I heard it best said by Bobby Chacon (my first boxing coach). Who would you pay more to see a Chihuahua or a Rottweiler. The same applies to people, that’s why the big guys get the big bucks. But from all my years of boxing, I think the most dangerous boxing weights are 178 to 200. There fast and they hit almost as hard as heavies. A lot of people look at some of these guys at the highend game getting 10mil or so and dont relize that there losing over 60% of that to the IRS, Trainers, cutman, and others. The guys at the low end getting less that 20k for a fight is working hard, hard, hard for their cash. Got to think of all the hours they are putting end, sparing, working out, running and god knows what else. Thats a steep cut.

[Warrior189]

Doesn't the boxers paycheck determine what rank he is in n whats his status? Like a 10 rounder in 28th rank get like around hundred grand. Or a boxer who is a PPV fight get like a mil.

[TerryV]

It should, but look at Hopkins I think he had not made over 250k until just a year or so ago and there are other fighters who are champs in other weight divisions who will never see more than 250k or less. The tied sees to be turning, the belts are meaning less and less, its starting to come back around to where value is being placed on the fighter and not status. The worse thing a fighter can do is have a manger who is his promoter.

The manager’s job is to get the fighter the most amount of money, but it’s the promoters job to pay the least amount of money. Hmm, we have a conflict of interest when this happens. That’s why so many guys get burned with Don King.