Errol Spence Jr Net Worth 2026: Purses, the Crawford Payday and Retirement

Spence's first real payday came in his home state. On March 16, 2019 he shut out Mikey Garcia (120-107, 120-108, 120-108) at AT&T Stadium in Arlington in front of 47,525 fans and a $5 million gate. The Fox pay-per-view did more than 360,000 buys, a minimum of $27 million domestically.

Max Boxing reported a $3 million base purse for each fighter, rising to as much as $8 million total depending on pay-per-view sales. For a fighter who had been making IBF title defense money on regular cable cards, it was the night the business changed.

Spence unified the IBF and WBC titles against Shawn Porter at Staples Center on September 28, 2019, winning a split decision (116-111, 116-111, 112-115). Kevin Iole reported Spence's guarantee at $2 million plus pay-per-view money. Less than two weeks later he was in a near-fatal car crash in Dallas, and he spent the next 14 months out of the ring.

He came back on December 5, 2020 against Danny Garcia at AT&T Stadium and won a clear unanimous decision (116-112, 117-111, 116-112) to keep both belts. Texas is one of the states that does not publish purses, and neither side disclosed the Garcia numbers, but it was Spence's third straight pay-per-view headliner.

On April 16, 2022 Spence added the WBA belt by stopping Yordenis Ugas in the 10th round at AT&T Stadium, with the fight halted on the ringside doctor's advice because of Ugas' swollen right eye. The only purse figures that circulated before that fight were pre-fight estimates of $1.5 million guaranteed for Spence and $1 million for Ugas with a 50-50 PPV split, and we treat those as unverified since no commission released them.

The real money was always Crawford. ESPN's Mike Coppinger reported in September 2022 that Crawford had agreed to Al Haymon's financial terms, including the smaller share of a revenue split and a bilateral rematch clause, for a November 19, 2022 date in Las Vegas. That deal collapsed before the contracts were signed, and it took another ten months to put it back together.

Spence vs. Crawford finally happened at T-Mobile Arena on July 29, 2023. Crawford stopped him in the ninth round, leading 79-70 on all three cards at the time to become the first undisputed welterweight champion of the four-belt era. The fight did about 700,000 pay-per-view buys, more than $59 million in PPV revenue and a gate above $20 million.

Coppinger reported that both fighters were guaranteed eight figures. The most specific number on record comes from the lawsuit Derrick James, Spence's longtime trainer, filed in April 2024. The suit states Spence received a $25 million guaranteed purse for the Crawford fight, that James was paid $350,000 of what he says should have been $2.5 million under a 10 percent agreement, and seeks no less than $5 million across five pay-per-view bouts. Spence countersued, saying James was paid the 10 percent he was promised and is owed nothing more. Both are allegations in an active dispute, not findings, but the $25 million figure has not been contradicted by either side.

Spence exercised the rematch clause, which led the IBF to strip Crawford in November 2023. The rematch never happened. Spence did not fight again for three years.

Spence returned on July 26, 2026 at Afterpay Arena in Sydney, Australia, at middleweight against Tim Tszyu, on a PBC card carried by DAZN. Tszyu won every round that mattered, taking a unanimous decision 118-110, 117-111 and 117-111. Spence fell to 28-2.

Fox Sports Australia reported the card's total purse pool at around $15 million, though the split between the two fighters was not disclosed. Bleacher Report described Spence's cut as almost certainly seven figures. Asked afterward whether this was the end, Spence said, "Yeah, for sure, man," and that he was leaving the sport with his faculties intact. No formal retirement announcement has followed, but nobody in the building took it as anything but a goodbye.

Spence's one disclosed commercial deal is with Everlast. He has been on the Team Everlast roster since 2018 and signed a long-term extension announced March 2, 2022 that made him the face of the brand's Greatness sportswear line, training and fighting exclusively in Everlast gear. No dollar value was released. He has not reported any other sponsorship with a public figure attached, and we are not going to invent one.

On the ring side, the reported numbers add up to roughly $30 million in guarantees: $3 million for Mikey Garcia, $2 million for Porter, $25 million for Crawford per the lawsuit, plus undisclosed purses for Danny Garcia, Ugas and Tszyu and pay-per-view shares across five Showtime and Fox PPVs. A fair estimate of career gross earnings is $45 million to $60 million.

From there, subtract taxes, a trainer at 10 percent, management, Haymon's advisory fees and the costs of a career with long layoffs. Our net worth estimate is $20 million to $30 million. Third-party sites publish numbers anywhere from $10 million to $25 million, and those should be treated as unverified estimates.

The short version is that Spence made one generational check, against Crawford, and walked away three years later with most of it. For a fighter who nearly died on a Dallas road in 2019, that is a better ending than it looked like for a while.