Pacquiao-Rios will carry the largest-ever purse for a boxing event in Asia

[toe2toe]

Pacquiao to make approximately US$20 million and Rios US$4 million.

[ykdadamaja]

Pac deserves it. Rios is hella lucky.

[Fenster]

$20m coming off a KO loss must be a record too

[beenKOed]

Good for them both, might shut down some of those 'Poor Broke Manny' rumors.
I wonder if Marquez is wishing that KO had never happened and he fighting Manny for 15 or 20 million?
Probably not.

[p4pking]

Well it must certainly be the highest total purse for a bout where both fighters are coming off a loss, by far I'd imagine. Say what you will about boxing, but there is no other way on earth someone as thick and pedestrian as Rios could ever make 4 million dollars for a nights work.

[toe2toe]

One of the big purse boxing event in Asia was years ago, in 1990 Mike Tyson v James "Buster" Douglas fight in Japan. "Iron Mike" Tyson banked US$6 million for the fight, while Douglas made US$1.3 million.

[Beanflicker]

Carrying a large purse? Faggots

[Violent Demise]

Pacquiao to make approximately US$20 million and Rios US$4 million.

By the time they make it home it'll be

Pacquiao 5 million
Rios 2 million
Arum 12 million