Pound for Pound king Floyd Mayweather will earn a record $41.5 million for his September 14th bout with Canelo Alvarez according to Dan Rafael of espn.com
“Floyd is the biggest star in the sport and the best in the sport, and when you’re the biggest star and you are the best, you get paid the most money,” saidMayweather’s adviser Leonatd Ellerbe told ESPN.com. “So this comes along with the territory.”
“It’s a wonderful thing,” Ellerbe said. “Floyd has put boxing on his back and crossed over. He took a niche sport and went out there and marketed a persona [‘Money’ Mayweather] in the mainstream world and became the highest-paid athlete in sports.
“It’s [truly a] blessing to be in that position to make that kind of money. Floyd has worked hard to put himself in this position. He deserves every penny of it. He’s the only athlete that has dominated his sport for the last 15 years, and now he is fighting the best guy he can possibly fight.”
“Showtime/CBS made it known they wanted to be in that Mayweather business,” Ellerbe said. “These are the things we talked about with Showtime/CBS when he made this deal, and they have really stepped up to make this possible. When we signed this deal and told people we had the biggest deal in sports history, some people said, ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah.’ But we were not kidding.”
