Wilder earned 14 million (£11 million) and Fury earned around 10.25 million (£8 million) in total. Thing to be noted here is that Fury is the A side heading into the third fight and will take home 60/40 split in his favor. The first fight generated 1 million PPV buys. However it will still be bigger purse than the first bout and if third fight can generate around 500,000 ppv buys in the US and another 300,000 in the UK both fighters will earn around 12 to 15 million easily. However, the PPV revenue was split by 50-50. It was supposed to happen last summer, but Fury signed a deal with ESPN which required two warm-up fights in the States before he could rematch the WBC champ. According to the California State Athletic Commission, Fury had a guaranteed base purse of 3 million and it was 4 million for the wilder. The man nicknamed the Gypsy King already delayed the second Wilder fight once. So pro wrestling could provide almost as much money without having to do the whole having-another-200-pound-plus-man-trying-to-legitimately-knock-you-out thing. Allegedly, Fury would make $50 million for those two fights. According to former ESPN boxing reporter Dan Rafael, Fury and Wilder were contractually guaranteed 5 million each in their second bout but ended up earning more than 25 million apiece. 22 in Vegas, and The Daily Mail says there’s already another fight between the two (which would make for a trilogy, as the two heavyweights battled to a controversial split decision last December) for London next summer. He’s currently scheduled to box Deontay Wilder on Feb. The British heavyweight told reporters at WWE’s press conference in Las Vegas last week that he might stick around if things go well in Riyadh, “Who knows what lies beneath? Maybe Velasquez, maybe Lesnar.” The report claims Fury could make an additional $20 million - or more - from WWE for those matches. 14) saying they’ve heard Fury will make £11.9 million, or $15 million U.S., for the match. The Daily Mail posted a report yesterday (Oct.
press are correct though, they’re still eye-popping. WWE’s Saudi Arabian paydays are already the stuff of legend, so that they’re cutting a fat check to boxing star Tyson Fury for his match against Braun Strowman at Oct.