Re: How much is too much?
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TitoFan
My point is he's not getting paid $300 million (or whatever) only for 36 minutes of work. There's thousands and thousands of minutes involved in getting him ready for the fight, which in my mind starts when the fight is signed. Add those up... and you have a better idea of how much he's getting paid per minute.
For sure, and then you also have to factor in press obligations. The big media tour, interviews, conference calls, flying all over the world promoting the fight, ect.
But of course any way you slice it, Floyd and Manny made an obscene amount of money. And good for them. They are both guys who weren't handed shit in the business, who weren't supposed to be superstars and worked their way up from ground zero. So good for them, I'll never get upset about fighters making a ton of money.
Re: How much is too much?
;D - bunch of plonkers arguing about what Floyd gets paid per minute. As thick as Floyd is i'm sure he didn't mean it literally.
Re: How much is too much?
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sanatogen
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Spicoli
Absolutely, even a basic designated retirement fund. Then again we're talking about some promoters and commissions who cannot even ensure proper event safety. I remember Gerry Cooney trying to initiate some after career health and job training program of some sort yrs ago but in an individual sport it has to be daunting as we know how tribal and arse backwards the sport is in the first place. Any reform has to begin at the top. We need a top.
Doesnt that exists already? Am sure I heard talk of this over a decade ago. Perhaps it was just talk.
As far as I know there is next to nothing on a big scale. Cooney formed FIST after retirement and held numerous fund raisers but have no idea the current status as any link I see runs dry or cannot be found. The California state commission has collected a small percentage from promoters on gross revenue and tv tax since 1982 for area fighters. They must have fought a minimum of 10 rounds a year for 4 years or more with no more than a 3 year "break" in between and be 50 years of age to be eligible to collect any funds. I think they are the only State with anything like this?
Harvey Munford from Nevada has pushed bills in 2011, 2013 and earlier this year that would double ticket fees charged by the Commission and require half of proceeds to go to medical expenses and treatment of resulting injuries but have no idea where they stand or if they've been picked up.
Re: How much is too much?
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Beanflicker
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TitoFan
On another note, I saw the interview and it was funny to see Floyd dissing Rhonda and using the money angle.
It made him look like a petty jerk.
He did the same thing when 50 Cent accused him of not being able to read.
In Floyd's mind, making a ton of money is what makes a person. :rolleyes:
That is why he should be known as the Wall Street boxer. Just as they couldn't care less about Main Street, he couldn't care less about the average punter.
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Gandalf
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Beanflicker
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TitoFan
On another note, I saw the interview and it was funny to see Floyd dissing Rhonda and using the money angle.
It made him look like a petty jerk.
He did the same thing when 50 Cent accused him of not being able to read.
In Floyd's mind, making a ton of money is what makes a person. :rolleyes:
That is why he should be known as the Wall Street boxer. Just as they couldn't care less about Main Street, he couldn't care less about the average punter.
You think the average punter wears his wife's underwear?
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ruthless rocco
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Gandalf
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Beanflicker
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TitoFan
On another note, I saw the interview and it was funny to see Floyd dissing Rhonda and using the money angle.
It made him look like a petty jerk.
He did the same thing when 50 Cent accused him of not being able to read.
In Floyd's mind, making a ton of money is what makes a person. :rolleyes:
That is why he should be known as the Wall Street boxer. Just as they couldn't care less about Main Street, he couldn't care less about the average punter.
You think the average punter wears his wife's underwear?
You shouldn't believe everything you read on the Internet. You hear a lot of wild and wacky things out there. ;)
Re: How much is too much?
Clearly IMO the fighters need more leverage and an association that will represent them like other major sports
Re: How much is too much?
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beenKOed
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ruthless rocco
How much big sucky baby crying over Floyd Mayweather Jr is too much?
For crying out loud! I don't know, that sucky stuff is your area of expertise! Hey Rocco. I don't mind saying, you're welcome to it!
I don't even know what you're trying to say here...
Re: How much is too much?
33 dollar for a rom n coke, thats to much, fuck you pitchers
Re: How much is too much?
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Xwetie
33 dollar for a rom n coke, thats to much, fuck you pitchers
You get charged that at a titty bar. :cool:
Re: How much is too much?
Its a little top heavy with Floyd and Manny to a lesser extent. He probably only makes 40 mil a fight....
This is a different sport almost when Floyd is involved for reasons that really cant be justified and yet it continues. Rigo and Ward dismantle and fight in a similar safety first fashion as Floyd and they cant draw flies to a shit parade. Hbo does not want Rigo and Ward on their cards and yet paid Floyd hundreds of millions to do the same thing prior to the split.
Separate from those primo's, the rest of the grinders and real blood and guts guys get squat. There is still no real financial planning for these guys and they get spit out. In a way the system creates the primadonnas.
My issues concerning Floyds pay is on moral grounds which is an uneasy position. Considering the state of the people on this planet and 40 million homeless in his own country, giving a guy 250 million or whatever for 36 minutes is beyond description for Dickens. Ftr I remember saying the same thing in Tysons day when he was making 40 million for 60 seconds. There is simply something wrong with that on a fundamental level for me even though I love the sport.
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Fenster
;D - bunch of plonkers arguing about what Floyd gets paid per minute. As thick as Floyd is i'm sure he didn't mean it literally.
Hey... if the dude is going to appear on television and talk about his earnings... the least he could do before the interview is have some gofer give him some cue cards, so he doesn't come across as an illiterate moron.
