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Mayweather made 8,000 fighting Conor McGregor... per second
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Congrats, you just
made $178,041!
Well, that is, if you're
Floyd Mayweather, standing in the ring against
Conor McGregor on Saturday night — and you took one
second to read that sentence.
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Floyd Mayweather totally out-classed Conor McGregor, but oh what a show!
In what has to be the biggest single payout in sports history, the 40-year-old
Mayweather stands to make a total of $300 million for his win over 29-year-old MMA superstar McGregor. (He'd have
made the same win or lose, so the fact that he won by KO to preserve his perfect 50-0 record is just gravy.)
Saturday night's fight carried a $100 million guaranteed purse for Mayweather, but he also gets a sizeable chunk of the pay-per-view from Showtime. Estimates range from $150 million to $200 million for that part, so we're giving the benefit of the doubt (and his own personal estimate) here.
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