Thread: Kovalev apparently only got 100k for fighting B Hop

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It refers to that at the bottom of this. What a joke.

So kathy duva is fuckin sergey over hard or she doesn't know how to fuckin negotiate...wtf

Damn, I hope his worth has increased, the guy is amazing

Doesn't really speak well of Hopkins either Its a slap. Guys with half the talent, even less desire and 10 shitty rappers walking them to the ring get handed more for far less.

That's fuck all when you figure he's losing about half of that to tax alone, and then trainer, manager, lawyer, promoter, ect take their chunks, and of course a chunk needs to go towards paying off the living/food expenses you rack up over a 2-3 month period of intense training. That really is disgraceful money, because that was a big fight with a lot of build up. He should have made 10 times that amount.

Well, hbo did a special on him, he probably got a nice chunk of change for that. Still, a screwed up amount for such a big fight. The guy always has a smile on nonetheless.

Originally Posted by Beanflicker

That's fuck all when you figure he's losing about half of that to tax alone, and then trainer, manager, lawyer, promoter, ect take their chunks, and of course a chunk needs to go towards paying off the living/food expenses you rack up over a 2-3 month period of intense training. That really is disgraceful money, because that was a big fight with a lot of build up. He should have made 10 times that amount.

The thing I read said he made 150k after the taxman and everybody else has been paid. He's in line for some proper paydays now that he beat Hopkins but he was ten or fifteen fights into his career and fighting for about five thousand dollars so even if he did make five or six hundred k gross purse for Hopkins (Duva says it was more) he's doing a lot better than he was.

$500 thousand was Kovalev' purse, but half goes right off the top for taxes.
Trainer's standard rate of 10%.
His manager gets a cut.
He took home $125 thousand, a quarter of his check.


I remember Buster Douglas' interview on Howard Stern.
1.3 million purse.
After taxes and trainer/manager fees, expenses, return airfare to tokyo, hotel fare; he said he took home about 15 grand for knocking out Mike Tyson in the biggest upset in boxing history.

Originally Posted by bradlee180

$500 thousand was Kovalev' purse, but half goes right off the top for taxes.
Trainer's standard rate of 10%.
His manager gets a cut.
He took home $125 thousand, a quarter of his check.


I remember Buster Douglas' interview on Howard Stern.
1.3 million purse.
After taxes and trainer/manager fees, expenses, return airfare to tokyo, hotel fare; he said he took home about 15 grand for knocking out Mike Tyson in the biggest upset in boxing history.

is it fifty percent tax bracket for that kind of money. Seems higher than I thought, when you do well, the government does well.