Hatton making $10.5million from Castillo fight

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$5.5million from Home Box Office, $4million from Setanta Sports (it took that to prise him away from Sky Box Office) and $1million from sponsors


It's also been revealed this week that Chris Eubank's total income in the past 17 years is $70,000,000 gross, which is gross (especially considering he's millions in debt), and because of this he owes even more to the taxman now


It's also been revealed this week as a rumour that Oscar De La Hoya and Floyd Mayweather Jr, at the new Wembley and City of Manchester Stadium respectively, await in the next SIX MONTHS... and that 60,000+ (maybe even 90,000) would be expected to buy tickets for both when you consider there are 100,000+ die-hard boxing followers in Britain and 100,000+ Manchester City football fans on top of that


This info has come from a certain British journo who enjoys a kebab or two (coughcoughbigdaddycoughcough)

[Tysonbruno]

I don't know what fighters do with all this money to end up broke its like Tyson he made an estimated £500m and ends up £22m in debt £522m gone how i know he was done out of some of it but he should'nt be bankrupt crazy stuff this.Fighters must spend money quicker than women

[gudnite vienna]

im sorry but dont reckon Eubank made that much

[skel1983]

With the British market Ricky can really get the big fights now, i think he is the only one realistacally other than Dela Hoya rematch can get Floys in the ring with the right amount of $$.

[smashup]

Totally agree and if he wins later then he goes into the elite superstardom league and can pretty much force the Floyd fight if he wanted.
Oscar has already come out and said he wants Hatton at Wembley which is minutes down the road for me
A win tonight and he's up there and i mean right up there no question.

[petem]

steve bunce is full of horse shit! why the hell would setanta pay him £ 2m for one fight, they dont have any money yet and im sure it must be a 3 fight deal or something not just this fight

and 90,000 at the new wembley ? i almost choked on my coffee reading that ! 30,000 maybe

[petem]

im sorry but dont reckon Eubank made that much

eubank easily brought that in. he was an a-list in the early 90s and that has carried over and he's certainly made the most of it

from 90 to 94 he was sponsored by the daily mirror and sunday mirror who doubled their sponsorship money in 92 to keep away other sponsors (eubank at the time was never out of the papers or off the telly), in 92 and 93 he was the face of russell athletic

he was on a £ 1m a year deal with itv from dec 90, switched to sky in june 94 on a £ 10m in one year deal

levis and mortal kombat 2 endorsed him in 94

he made £ 1m in the thornton (ticket prices doubled), storey, schommer and collins fights, £ 1.25m in the 2nd close and wharton fights. his other world title defense purses were all in excess of half a million, all through ticket sales alone. he also made £ 2.5m (combined) from his last eight fights

he estimates he did around 600 public workouts with the fee always £ 2.50 and says he made over a million from them alone-all for charity

he's also done adverts for mcdonalds, nescafe and jaffa cakes, launched the sega dreamcast, done alot of modelling for vivienne westwood and versace, had his own radio show, had his own tv show, and says his book made £ 1.5m (sales in the region of 70,000 (at £ 20.99), accoridng to harpercollins). on top of that he's been on the public speaking circuit since 94 and claims to have done more speeches than any other celeb in britain. he also claims to have done more charity auctions than any other sportsman or celeb in britain

he also made some money from the watson fight being shown on his site, but not a great deal at all

[chamiley]

I don't know what fighters do with all this money to end up broke its like Tyson he made an estimated £500m and ends up £22m in debt £522m gone how i know he was done out of some of it but he should'nt be bankrupt crazy stuff this.Fighters must spend money quicker than women

Tyson did not make five hundred million pounds, that would be 1 billion american dollars. It is estimated that Tyson made $300 million american that is about 150 million pounds.

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Imagine if Eubank went to the States! They'd have lapped him up IMO!