Anthony Joshua Net Worth 2026: Purses, Saudi Paydays and Business Deals

Joshua's first monster payday was the eleventh-round stoppage of Wladimir Klitschko in front of 90,000 at Wembley on April 29, 2017. JOE reported both men were guaranteed 15 million pounds apiece from a 20 million pound purse split 50-50 plus PPV and gate cuts. Sky Box Office sold 1.532 million buys at 20 pounds on the night, and the event generated an estimated 50 million pounds in total revenue.

The Andy Ruiz Jr. upset at Madison Square Garden on June 1, 2019, a seventh-round stoppage loss, still paid: reports put Joshua between 19.3 million pounds and $32 million, with UK PPV at 652,000 buys. The rematch in Diriyah, Saudi Arabia on December 7, 2019, which Joshua won on a wide unanimous decision, was the start of the Saudi era. Forbes, citing the Daily Star, reported Joshua would make upwards of $60 million. Saudi authorities reportedly paid a 30 million pound site fee, and Sky Box Office did 1.284 million buys on the night plus 291,000 more over the next two weeks.

Celebrity Net Worth lists the Ruiz rematch at $57.5 million, which would make it his biggest single payday until the Paul fight.

The first Oleksandr Usyk fight at Tottenham on September 25, 2021, a unanimous decision loss, paid a reported 10 million pound guarantee rising to around 15 million pounds with PPV on 1.232 million UK buys. The rematch in Jeddah on August 20, 2022, a split decision loss, is where the numbers get murky. Wikipedia says the Saudi Public Investment Fund put up a roughly $77 million purse for the fighters to split; Boardroom reported $75 million each. Sportbible later referred to Joshua's Usyk rematch purse as 16.3 million pounds. Treat all three with caution and know the true figure was somewhere in the tens of millions.

The rebuild fights were cheaper. Jermaine Franklin at the O2 in April 2023 was reported at around 10 million pounds, described as his smallest purse in five years. Otto Wallin on the Day of Reckoning card in Riyadh in December 2023 was reported by The Sun at around $9 million.

Then Francis Ngannou. Joshua knocked the former UFC champion down three times and out in the second round in Riyadh on March 8, 2024. Sports Business Journal reported a $50 million purse for Joshua and $20 million for Ngannou. The Daniel Dubois fight at Wembley on September 21, 2024, which Joshua lost by fifth-round knockout, had a reported 6 million pound base purse with total earnings projected at about 25 million pounds after a 60-40 revenue split.

Joshua stepped in for Gervonta Davis and knocked Jake Paul out at 1:31 of the sixth round at the Kaseya Center in Miami on December 19, 2025, dropping him four times and breaking his jaw. Paul weighed 216.6 pounds, Joshua 243.4.

The purse reports ranged wildly. The Daily Mail put the combined purse at $184 million, implying about $92 million each. Ariel Helwani said he heard $40 million to $50 million apiece. Paul posted that the event would generate $267 million. Sportbible later described Joshua's Paul purse as 70 million pounds, his career high. When TMZ asked Joshua if it was his biggest payday, he said, "Unfortunately, it's not," which is either honesty or a good poker face.

Netflix reported an estimated average minute audience of 33 million viewers globally, top 10 in 91 countries and number one in 45. Whatever the real check was, it was the easiest big money Joshua ever made.

Forbes has ranked Joshua among the world's highest-paid athletes ten times. The 2018 list had him 25th at $39 million, split $32 million in purses and $7 million in endorsements. In 2019 he hit $55 million, tying Lewis Hamilton as the top-earning Briton. In 2020 he was 19th at $47 million. In 2023 he was 28th at $53 million, with $50 million from fighting and $3 million off the field. In 2024 he peaked at 16th with $83 million, roughly $75 million from four fights and $8 million from Under Armour, Beats and the rest.

He dropped off the 2025 Forbes top 50, where the cutoff was $53.6 million, because the Dubois loss was his only fight in the window. Sportico still had him 30th overall with $60 million on its list of 2024 earnings.

The Sunday Times Rich List published in May 2026 valued Joshua at 240 million pounds, ranked eighth among UK sports figures and ahead of Tyson Fury at 162 million pounds. For a fighter who has lost four of his last nine, that is a remarkable number, and it says a lot about what happens when you pay attention to the business side.

Joshua has been with Under Armour since 2015 and signed a long-term renewal in March 2024 with undisclosed terms. In June 2026 CAA Sports announced an exclusive commercial partnership with him and his 258 Group, listing a sponsor roster of Under Armour, British Airways, Audemars Piguet, Hugo Boss, Lucozade, Jaguar Land Rover, DAZN, EA Sports, Revolut, Meta and Beats by Dre. Companies House accounts to February 2023 showed 50.8 million pounds in career sponsorship income through his marketing company, and a 2018 report put the Jaguar deal alone at about $1 million a year.

The company filings are where his wealth becomes concrete. Sparta Promotions Ltd reported turnover of 41.5 million pounds and pre-tax profit of 35.7 million pounds for the year to March 2025, with 36.3 million pounds in cash and no dividends taken. 258 Marketing Ltd showed around 43 million pounds in pre-tax profit for the year to February 2024 with close to 30 million pounds in cash. A March 2026 Daily Mail report said his filings now list the United Arab Emirates as his country of residence.

He also holds a minority stake in the Alpine F1 team through a 2023 consortium, negotiated equity in DAZN as part of his 2018 Matchroom deal, and owns London property including a Bond Street mixed-use block valued above $33 million and a Hertfordshire estate valued near $40 million.

The fight British boxing has waited a decade for was confirmed on September 24, 2026 by Turki Alalshikh: Fury vs. Joshua, Friday, December 11, 2026, Principality Stadium, Cardiff, live on Netflix worldwide and Sky Sports in the UK. It was originally pointed at Madison Square Garden before moving to Wales, with a 2 a.m. local start to suit US television. The press conference is set for London on September 30.

Sportbible reported the two will split a 200 million pound combined purse 50-50, excluding bonuses and endorsements, which would be roughly 100 million pounds each and the biggest payday of either man's career. That is a pre-fight report, not a disclosed figure. Fury is 36-2-1 with 25 knockouts after beating Mariusz Wach in Thailand the same weekend Joshua stopped Prenga.

The third-party estimates cluster: Celebrity Net Worth at $250 million, the Sunday Times at 240 million pounds (about $320 million), Billionaires Africa at a more conservative $150 million. Celebrity Net Worth adds his ten biggest reported paydays to $275 million.

My math: Forbes-tracked earnings from 2017 through 2024 total roughly $400 million gross, before the Paul fight. Add a Paul purse in the $40 million to $90 million range and the Prenga fight. Even after UK taxes at the top rate for most of that period, management, training and Matchroom's cut, the audited cash sitting in his two main companies alone was more than 60 million pounds across recent filings, before real estate, the Alpine stake and the DAZN equity.

That puts a defensible band at $200 million to $300 million, with the Sunday Times figure at the top of it. And the number is about to move. If the Fury purse lands anywhere near the reported 100 million pounds, Joshua becomes the richest British boxer in history in one night, win or lose. Very few fighters have ever been paid this much to lose this often, and that is a compliment to his team, not a knock on him.