Floyd Mayweather Net Worth 2026: Purses, PPV Points and the Lawsuit Year

Nevada publishes contracted purses, and Mayweather's two biggest fights were filed at the same number. For Manny Pacquiao on May 2, 2015, his disclosed purse was $100 million. For Conor McGregor on August 26, 2017, it was $100 million again, against a $30 million minimum for McGregor. No other fighter has had a nine-figure guarantee on file with a commission, and Mayweather did it twice in 28 months.

Those filings were floors, not ceilings. The Pacquiao deal split revenue 60-40 in Mayweather's favor, and ESPN's Dan Rafael projected his final take at about $250 million once the gate and pay-per-view money was counted. For McGregor, the pre-fight reporting had the winner clearing a minimum of $100 million with the real number expected to be multiples of the purse.

Mayweather won both. He outpointed Pacquiao over 12 rounds and stopped McGregor in the 10th.

The reason the purses understate things is that Mayweather owned a piece of everything. Mayweather vs Pacquiao sold more than 4.4 million U.S. pay-per-view buys and more than $400 million in pay-per-view revenue, per Showtime and HBO, with a Nevada State Athletic Commission gate of $72,198,500 from 16,219 tickets. Total revenue cleared $600 million.

McGregor nearly matched it. Showtime reported 4.3 million buys and more than $600 million in total revenue, with a live gate of $55,414,865.79, second in Nevada history behind only the Pacquiao fight. Dana White claimed 6.7 million buys worldwide, but the Showtime figure is the one with a press release behind it.

Mayweather Promotions was the promoter of record on both, which is how a $100 million purse turns into $250 million or more. He did not take a cut of the pay-per-view. He took the pay-per-view.

Forbes tracks athlete income on a June-to-June calendar, and Mayweather broke the scale twice. For the 12 months ending June 1, 2015, Forbes put him at $300 million, a record that beat Tiger Woods' old mark of $115 million by nearly three times. He fought twice in that window, Marcos Maidana and Pacquiao. Cristiano Ronaldo was second at $79.6 million.

For 2017, Forbes had him at $285 million, broken down as $275 million in pay and $10 million in endorsements, again first in the world. The pay figure is essentially the McGregor fight. McGregor himself was fourth on that list at $99 million.

When the decade closed, Forbes ranked Mayweather the highest-paid athlete of the 2010s at $915 million, ahead of Ronaldo at $800 million and Lionel Messi at $750 million. More than $500 million of that came from the Pacquiao and McGregor nights. Add his pre-2010 career, which included the 2007 De La Hoya fight that held the pay-per-view record until he broke it himself, and his gross career earnings are past $1 billion by any reasonable count.

Since retiring, Mayweather has treated exhibitions as a second career with none of the risk. The template was Logan Paul on June 6, 2021 at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami: eight rounds, no official result, and a reported deal of a $10 million guarantee plus 50 percent of the pay-per-view revenue. Paul got a reported $250,000 plus 10 percent.

Sportico reported the event generated about $50 million in pay-per-view revenue, with Showtime projecting roughly 1 million buys. On those terms Mayweather cleared at least $35 million for a night in which he was never in danger of losing. He has repeated the formula around the world against YouTubers, kickboxers and retired fighters, usually on private or streaming deals where no commission posts a purse.

Mayweather's post-boxing identity is real estate investor, through a firm called Vada Properties based in Trump Tower. The headline claim was a $402 million purchase of 62 rental buildings in upper Manhattan, which he announced on Instagram. Bisnow, citing The Real Deal, reported the deal as a $420 million contract for a 60-building, 1,000-unit affordable housing portfolio from Black Spruce Management.

Business Insider went looking and could not find it. New York City property records, which usually update within days of a sale, showed none of the buildings had changed hands, and the NYC Housing Partnership, the nonprofit partner on most of the properties, said it had not been notified of any pending sale. When Business Insider called Vada, a man identified as a Mayweather executive insisted the deal was done but would not go on record with details. Black Enterprise summarized the industry view: some experts question whether Mayweather is exaggerating the size of his holdings.

The other deals are better documented but still unconfirmed. The Real Deal reported in November 2024 that Mayweather put $100 million of equity into a joint venture with Go Partners on a $3 billion luxury rental portfolio, including The Copper, two towers with 761 residences in Murray Hill. A week earlier he reportedly invested more than $100 million in a 10 million square foot office portfolio owned by 601W Cos. Mayweather Promotions remains his core operating business. None of the real estate has been audited in public, so the estimate treats real estate as a range, not a sum.

This was supposed to be Mayweather's biggest year since 2017. As of March he had three fights booked: Mike Tyson in an exhibition on April 25 in the Democratic Republic of Congo, kickboxer Mike Zambidis in Athens in June, and a real fight with Pacquiao on September 19 at the Sphere in Las Vegas, announced by Netflix on February 23.

None of them happened. Tyson was postponed with an injury. On June 25, two days before the Zambidis exhibition, Mayweather's attorney called it off, saying a lawsuit and legal threats in the United States and Greece had halted promotion and ticket sales. The plaintiff was CSI Sports, the company Mayweather signed with for both the Tyson and Pacquiao bouts, which sued him for breach of contract in the Southern District of New York and argued it held exclusive rights. Pacquiao confirmed the same day that their rematch was postponed indefinitely, and his camp cited "financial gridlock" around the Mayweather side.

The suit, as reported by The Ring, alleges a $14 million purse for the Tyson exhibition including a $2 million advance, a Pacquiao deal worth a $35 million guarantee plus a share of pay-per-view or a $50 million buyout, and asks for roughly $6.65 million in damages. Those are allegations, not findings. A federal judge denied CSI's bid to block the Zambidis fight on July 3, but by then Athens was gone. On September 30, Mayweather said Greece was still next. No date exists.

Start with the gross. Forbes' $915 million for the 2010s, plus the pre-2010 career, plus five years of exhibitions, puts career earnings past $1.1 billion. Taxes at the top federal rate take a third or more of fight income, and Mayweather's spending is a brand in itself: the cars, the jets, the jewelry and the entourage are the product, not a side effect.

The low end of $400 million assumes he kept roughly 40 percent of the gross and that the real estate claims are mostly unconfirmed. The high end of $600 million gives him credit for the Go Partners and 601W investments at face value and for exhibition money that was never disclosed. Going higher means taking the $402 million Manhattan deal as real when the city's own records say it is not, and we are not doing that.

So: $400 million to $600 million, an estimate, backed by more than $1 billion in career earnings. The 2026 lawsuits do not change the number yet. They are the first time in 20 years anyone has had a reason to ask the question.