By Jimmy Ayash

Floyd Mayweather Jr. has set the standard for how a boxer should get paid – his nickname is Money.

These last few month it has become apparent to me that the beast will continue and only get bigger.  After A-Rod signed a Ten Year / $300 Deal about a decade, Baseball took a break, now in 2019, 3 baseball players signed for more, Mike Trout signed for $430 million and none of the players are playing in New York.

When Michael Jordan came back from his first retirement to win three more titles, he signed single year contracts with the Bulls for about $30 million per year, what was considered crazy 20 years ago, is now peanuts for today’s top NBA players.

In the 1980’s Sugar Ray Leonard was the  Genius – not only inside the ring, he developed his own model, made record breaking money and became the man that all boxers want to emulate.

Photo by Anthony Behar

Floyd Money Mayweather has taught the world many lessons in his amazing career (I’m not sure if it was done by design, nonetheless he gets the credit). He has surpassed and succeeded Ray Leonard (not in skills or character) in his design of making Boxing money. Letting the Pacquiao fight wait/ marinate  (probably by accident because they couldn’t come to terms) gave Mayweather a huge reward. He was fighting for $20-$40 million per fight and then the staggering PPV numbers came in for the PAC fight and Mayweather made  approximately $300 million that night. He set the standard so high he didn’t want to fight anymore, unless he got atleast $100 million.

After the Pacquiao fight, many thought that was the pinnacle in boxing. Now we see guys like  Deontay Wilder and Errol Spence Jr. mentioning that they want to follow in the same footsteps. We will see Spence fights on PPV for $80 or $100. It wouldn’t surprise me to see Wilder wait two or three more years to fight Joshua or Fury (again). It also wouldn’t surprise me to see Wilder/Joshua surpass $1 billion in revenue. ( we are so in a hurry to see the bigs fight, but maybe Wilder (not by accident- is the genius). One day Eddie Hearn might look at Wilder and give him a huge bear huge. There differences now, might be there Record Reward Later.

Mayweather taught us much, he taught us that it doesn’t really matter what you Price the PPV, he taught us that one fight can pay you more then 10 fights if you relax and play the game. He taught us that the best don’t need to fight the best to get super-rich. Mayweather taught the boxing world and the sports world much – so much so that a marketing/business class (covering his boxing decisions) at a university might be in order.

Everybody wants to be like Floyd, maybe in the near future everybody will want to be like Errol Spence Jr. or like Deontay Wilder.

Jimmy Ayash is the Senior Writer for Boxing Action Magazine and www.BoxingAction24.com Jimmy is on social media @AyashManBoxing