Manny Pacquiao Net Worth 2026: Purses, PPV Money and the Mayweather Rematch

The hard numbers start with Keith Thurman. For the July 20, 2019 fight at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, Pacquiao's guaranteed purse was $10 million, per ESPN, against $2.5 million for Thurman. Pacquiao won a split decision (115-112, 115-112, 113-114), dropped Thurman in the first round and, at 40, became the oldest welterweight to win a major world title. The fight did roughly 500,000 pay-per-view buys in the United States, worth an estimated $37.5 million, and Pacquiao had a piece of that on top of the guarantee.

Two years later the money was smaller and the result was worse. Pacquiao's guarantee for Yordenis Ugas in August 2021 was reported at $5 million plus a share of pay-per-view revenue. Ugas won a unanimous decision, 115-113, 116-112 and 116-112, and kept the WBA welterweight belt. That was the fight that sent Pacquiao into what looked like retirement with a 62-8-2 record.

Before Thurman, the money ran much higher, and the figure that matters most is the one from May 2015. That one deserves its own section.

Mayweather vs Pacquiao on May 2, 2015 is still the richest fight ever staged. The Nevada State Athletic Commission reported a live gate of $72,198,500 from 16,219 tickets at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, a state record that still stands. Showtime and HBO said the fight sold more than 4.4 million U.S. pay-per-view buys and more than $400 million in pay-per-view revenue, with total revenue past $600 million.

The split was 60-40 in Mayweather's favor. Mayweather's disclosed purse with the commission was $100 million. ESPN's Dan Rafael projected Mayweather would end up around $250 million and Pacquiao more than $120 million once the pay-per-view and gate money was counted. Pacquiao lost a unanimous decision, but the money cleared either way.

Forbes put it in context the following month. For the 12 months ending June 1, 2015, Pacquiao earned $160 million, second in the world behind Mayweather's record $300 million. The next athlete on the list, Cristiano Ronaldo, was at $79.6 million. One fight, one night, more than half a Ronaldo year.

Pacquiao never fought for a flat fee in his prime. His deals with Top Rank and later Premier Boxing Champions paid him a guarantee plus a share of pay-per-view revenue, and that upside is where most of his fortune came from. Forbes tallied 25 pay-per-view fights that generated about 20 million buys and an estimated $1.3 billion in revenue.

When Forbes closed the books on the 2010s, Pacquiao ranked eighth among the highest-paid athletes of the decade at $435 million. Mayweather topped the list at $915 million, and more than $500 million of that came from two nights: Pacquiao in 2015 and Conor McGregor in 2017. Pacquiao's decade number is the single best figure anyone has for his earnings, and it leaves out everything before 2010, which includes the De La Hoya, Hatton and Cotto paydays.

Add it up conservatively and Pacquiao's gross boxing earnings are comfortably past $500 million. That is not his net worth. It is the top of the funnel.

Pacquiao's comeback was announced on May 15, 2025, hours after he conceded his Senate race. He had finished 18th in the Philippine midterms, with only the top 12 winning seats. His team tied the return to his June induction into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in Canastota, and the opponent was Mario Barrios, the WBC welterweight champion.

The fight happened July 19, 2025 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. Pacquiao was 46 years and 7 months old. It ended in a majority draw: Tim Cheatham and Steve Weisfeld had it 114-114, Max DeLuca had Barrios 115-113. Barrios kept the belt and Pacquiao's record moved to 62-8-3.

The pay was real. The New York Times reported before the fight that Pacquiao would get $12.5 million, and the listed purse was $12 million. Barrios was guaranteed $1 million, the biggest purse of his career, with reports of up to $2.5 million more tied to pay-per-view performance. Spin.ph's own estimate had Pacquiao's total haul, with pay-per-view and other income, above $17 million. The official buy figure was never released.

The most useful number for Pacquiao's actual wealth is not from boxing. Philippine officials have to file a statement of assets, liabilities and net worth every year, and Pacquiao's 2018 filing as a senator declared a net worth of 3,005,808,000 pesos, up from about 2.9 billion the year before. At exchange rates of the time that was roughly $55 million to $60 million.

That filing is self-reported and it is now eight years old, but it is the closest thing to a verified floor that exists. It also explains the gap. Pacquiao had grossed hundreds of millions by 2018 and was declaring a net worth that would not cover one Mayweather fight. Taxes in two countries, a famously large entourage, charity on a scale no other athlete attempts, and expensive political campaigns all ate into it.

His business side is run through MP Promotions, which co-promoted the Barrios fight and holds his end of the Mayweather rematch deal. He has had endorsement and sponsor money throughout his career, but the figures were never broken out publicly in a way we can cite, so they are not in the estimate as a line item.

After Barrios, Pacquiao's advisers chased a January 2026 title shot at WBA champion Rolando Romero. Those talks collapsed, per Ring Magazine's Mike Coppinger, and the bigger target came into view: Floyd Mayweather, 50-0, in a real fight. Netflix announced the rematch on February 23, 2026, for September at the Sphere in Las Vegas, with MP Promotions and Mayweather Promotions co-promoting alongside CSI Sports.

Then it fell apart. In June 2026 CSI sued Mayweather in federal court in New York over his Tyson and Pacquiao deals, and on June 25 Pacquiao confirmed the rematch was postponed indefinitely. His camp cited "a volatile mix of federal lawsuits, scheduling overbooks, and financial gridlock completely surrounding the Mayweather camp" and said it was eyeing early 2027. Pacquiao's line: "I want Floyd to live with the one loss on his professional record and always remember who gave it to him."

As of mid-October 2026, Pacquiao is reportedly being lined up for the December 11 Fury vs Joshua card in Cardiff on Netflix, on the theory that the streamer owes him a fight. Nothing is signed. MP Promotions CEO Jas Mathur told Ring Magazine a fourth-quarter bout was likely but that "nobody is set, no opponent is set in stone yet."

Start from the floor. The 2018 Senate filing put Pacquiao's net worth at roughly $57 million. Since then he has banked the Thurman guarantee and pay-per-view share, the Ugas purse, the Barrios purse and whatever upside came with it, which together add somewhere north of $30 million gross. He has also kept campaigning and kept giving.

That gets us to $70 million on the low end, which assumes the filing was accurate and the spending never slowed. The high end of $150 million assumes the filing understated assets held abroad or through businesses, which is a common criticism of those disclosures, and that the comeback money mostly stayed put. Anything higher than that requires taking a third-party estimate on faith, and we do not.

So: $70 million to $150 million, labeled an estimate, with more than $500 million in career earnings behind it. If the Mayweather rematch ever lands, the floor moves. Until then, this is the number.