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garymcfall
10-08-2007, 03:02 PM
Who is the richest fighter of all time (taking into account money from boxing only)? People like Tyson dont count because although he earned more than most he didnt keep it, therefore he isnt on the list.
rydersonthestorm
10-08-2007, 03:06 PM
Probably naz,lewis,roy jones or odlh.
janitor
10-08-2007, 03:13 PM
I think it is Holyfield.
Luigi1985
10-08-2007, 03:18 PM
Oscar De La Hoya clearly IMO...
rydersonthestorm
10-08-2007, 03:25 PM
If it is just money from boxing and money they ave kept it is hard to judge, but naz is worth over 50 million dollars, lewis is worth a reported £30 million pounds (60 million dollars), does odlh count as he makes more money from promoting the fight than from boxing.
MrMagic
10-08-2007, 03:29 PM
ODLH
Holyfield

rest.
garymcfall
10-08-2007, 03:30 PM
If it is just money from boxing and money they ave kept it is hard to judge, but naz is worth over 50 million dollars, lewis is worth a reported £30 million pounds (60 million dollars), does odlh count as he makes more money from promoting the fight than from boxing.

yeh any money thats related to the sport of boxing, whether that be actually fighting in a bout or promoting a bout, whatever it counts
TBooze
10-08-2007, 03:34 PM
de la Hoya I suspect edges out Holyfield now a days.

It would be intresting to see in todays money what someone like Tunney or Dempsey were worth.
rydersonthestorm
10-08-2007, 03:36 PM
Well if thats the case gary it's easily odlh.
TBooze
10-08-2007, 03:37 PM
Well if thats the case gary it's easily odlh.

Messrs King or Arum may beg to differ;)
MagnificentMatt
10-08-2007, 03:41 PM
George Foreman maybe? EVERYONE knows of he is, and half the people in America probably own a foreman grill..
ODLH of course... and Larry Holmes, but Larry Holmes never spent any money is what i've heard, so hes pretty loaded... Tight bastard..
garymcfall
10-08-2007, 03:43 PM
George Foreman maybe? EVERYONE knows of he is, and half the people in America probably own a foreman grill..
ODLH of course... and Larry Holmes, but Larry Holmes never spent any money is what i've heard, so hes pretty loaded... Tight bastard..

Foreman made the majority of his fortune outside of boxing though, im doing research into the money making side of the business and im curious to find out who has made what from the sport.
rydersonthestorm
10-08-2007, 03:44 PM
Funny tbooze i never remeber don king or bob arum as pro boxers.
TBooze
10-08-2007, 03:44 PM
Foreman made the majority of his fortune outside of boxing though, im doing research into the money making side of the business and im curious to find out who has made what from the sport.

I suspect now he is not short of a bob or two. But he admitted himself he was seriously broke in 87, hence the comeback. So although up there now, I doubt he is the richest.
janitor
10-08-2007, 03:51 PM
Adjusted for inflation I guess that John Gulley was probably the richest fighter of all time.
TBooze
10-08-2007, 03:55 PM
Funny tbooze i never remeber don king or bob arum as pro boxers.

No but King in particular has made his fortune in boxing, which garymcfall asked for examples of (post #8.).;)
rydersonthestorm
10-08-2007, 03:57 PM
No but gary asked for the richest fighter's and specifeid that tyson doesn't count as he's spent it all and that money made from inside the sport such as odlh promoting does count :)
Robbi
10-08-2007, 05:06 PM
Excluding Mike Tyson, Oscar de la Hoya then Evander Holyfield.

If your looking at the richest boxer on the planet right now, De La Hoya. He owns a bank and six Spanish Language newspapers, also as we all know he's got Golden Boy Promotions.

The top 3 boxers with purses, exclusively boxing.

1. Tyson
2. Holyfield/De la Hoya
3. Lewis.

Lennox Lewis has got more from his career purses than Leonard.
brooklyn1550
10-08-2007, 05:16 PM
Oscar De La Hoya
OLD FOGEY
10-08-2007, 05:36 PM
de la Hoya I suspect edges out Holyfield now a days.

It would be intresting to see in todays money what someone like Tunney or Dempsey were worth.

Tunney was worth $2 million in 1928 when he retired. That certainly comes out to 20 to 30 million, at least, in today's money. But Tunney then married the heiress to the Carnegie steel fortune, so he was a billionaire by modern standards.
Luigi1985
10-08-2007, 05:37 PM
Tommy Burns was also a smart businessman...
rydersonthestorm
10-08-2007, 05:44 PM
Yeah but your getting off the topic, george foreman and many other boxers are very rich but they didn't make there money from boxing, he was asking for pro fighters that have made money from boxing.
Luigi1985
10-08-2007, 05:46 PM
Yeah but your getting off the topic, george foreman and many other boxers are very rich but they didn't make there money from boxing, he was asking for pro fighters that have made money from boxing.



I know. Burns was a smart businessman during his career (and later), perhaps someone like OLD FOGEY likes to tell us more about Burns, but I know 100 % that he retired as a rich man...
Arminius
10-08-2007, 06:59 PM
Gene Tunney may have been. He was self-educated, invested well and married into money. He also turned his Dempsey fights into gold.
cuchulain
10-08-2007, 07:20 PM
Yeah but your getting off the topic, george foreman and many other boxers are very rich but they didn't make there money from boxing, he was asking for pro fighters that have made money from boxing.


It depends what you mean by :make there money from boxing

Arguably, all of George's money CAME from boxing.

If he'd never boxed, would he have sold a single grill ?
rydersonthestorm
10-08-2007, 07:22 PM
Yeah but read what the guy asked for he was pretty specific.
Duodenum
10-08-2007, 07:24 PM
Dempsey held the world record for highest paid athlete, having earned over $10,000,000, until Sonia Henie broke it. Jack still held the record for all boxers until Ali broke it in the mid 1970s. Adjusted for inflation, Dempsey might still hold the record.
cuchulain
10-08-2007, 07:25 PM
Yeah but read what the guy asked for he was pretty specific.


Agreed.