MANILA, Philippines — As soon as one of many world’s highest-earning athletes, Manny Pacquiao had been out of the prizefighting enterprise for some time.
That doesn’t imply he’s now not able to scoring an enormous payday within the occasion he decides to return from a four-year-retirement.
Pacquiao did simply that in difficult World Boxing Council Mario Barrios.
In line with studies, the Filipino icon’s purse is at the least $12 million (roughly P638 million) for the Barrios gig final Sunday (Manila time) on the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, a struggle that led to a majority draw.
Marca.com mentioned Pacquiao’s complete take dwelling pay as soon as the earnings from pay-per-view (PPV) gross sales kick may attain as much as $18 million, or over a billion in Philippine pesos.
As of posting time, PPV earnings haven’t but been launched.
Barrios, for his half, reportedly earned between $500,000 to $1 million (P28 million to P57 million) in placing his title on the road in opposition to Pacquiao.
What’s even nice for Pacquiao is that in proving he can nonetheless placed on a present regardless of coming off a four-year retirement — over 13,000 followers attended his struggle on the venue — he’ll inevitably be again for at the least yet one more struggle this yr.
“December is smart,” Sean Gibbons, president of MP Promotions and one in all Pacquiao’s most trusted guys on the negotiating desk, mentioned from Las Vegas the day after the Barrios struggle, when quizzed about Pacquiao’s subsequent bout.
All through his profession, Pacquiao raked in tens of millions from his boxing matches — lots of these have been on PPV. He even took dwelling a whopping $150 million (over P8.5 billion in in the present day’s conversion price) in his megabuck duel with Floyd Mayweather Jr. 10 years in the past — a struggle that went down within the historical past books because the richest boxing bout ever.
Pacquiao merely isn’t carried out laughing his technique to the financial institution but.
