Oleksandr Usyk Net Worth 2026: Purses, Saudi Paydays and Business

Usyk was already the undisputed cruiserweight champion when he moved up, but the money did not follow him right away. For the November 10, 2018 stoppage of Tony Bellew in Manchester, the reported figure for Usyk was about £800,000 against a £4 million guarantee for Bellew, who was the home draw. The Derek Chisora win on October 31, 2020 was reported at roughly £1.8 million.

The first real payday was Anthony Joshua on September 25, 2021 at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. Reports carried by talkSPORT and DraftKings Network put Usyk's guarantee at about $4.1 million plus a 40 percent share of the pay-per-view upside, while Joshua was guaranteed around $13.6 million with 60 percent. Usyk won a unanimous decision (117-112, 116-112, 115-113) and took the WBA, IBF and WBO belts, which flipped the leverage for the rematch.

Treat all of these as media figures. The British Boxing Board of Control does not disclose purses, so nothing from the UK phase of his career is an official number.

The rematch on August 20, 2022 in Jeddah was the fight that changed Usyk's tax bracket. The New York Times reported a combined purse of about $77 million funded by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, and the rematch clause called for a 50-50 split. Pre-fight projections from SportsZion, cited by DraftKings, ran higher, but the $35 million to $40 million range is the conservative read on what Usyk cleared before his split decision win.

The Daniel Dubois fight in Wroclaw on August 26, 2023 is the one bout with something close to an official number. It went to a purse bid, which Krassyuk won at $8,057,000. Under IBF rules the champion takes 75 percent, so Usyk's share was $6,042,750 to Dubois' $2,014,250, as reported by BoxingScene at the time. Usyk survived a disputed low blow and stopped Dubois in the ninth.

Usyk beat Tyson Fury by split decision on May 18, 2024 at Kingdom Arena in Riyadh to become the first undisputed heavyweight champion in 25 years. The Independent and The Guardian reported a total purse around $150 million with a 70-30 split in Fury's favor, which put Usyk's reported share at about $45 million. He took the smaller end because he was the B-side commercially, even as the champion.

The rematch on December 21, 2024, a clear unanimous decision for Usyk (116-112 on all three cards), was reported by The Independent and Al Jazeera at a combined $190 million to $191 million. The split was never confirmed. Some outlets guessed 55-45 or 60-40 in Usyk's favor, which would be $105 million to $114 million. SportBible, citing Ukrainska Pravda, put it at £83.3 million for Usyk and £67.3 million for Fury. Krassyuk's line was simple: there was no specific purse distribution to report. Either way, it is the largest single night of his career by any reading.

The July 19, 2025 rematch with Dubois in front of 90,000 at Wembley ended in the fifth round and made Usyk undisputed for a second time. The Evening Standard, citing Baltimore Chronicle, reported a combined purse of about $203 million with roughly $132.8 million to Usyk and $71.2 million to Dubois. That number has been repeated widely but never confirmed by anyone on the promotion, so file it under plausible rather than proven.

His most recent fight was the May 23, 2026 stoppage of kickboxing star Rico Verhoeven in Giza, Egypt, which ESPN covered as an 11th round TKO with the WBC title on the line while the WBA and IBF refused to sanction it. EssentiallySports carried projections around $40 million for Usyk and $12 million for Verhoeven, and Celebrity Net Worth landed in a similar $38 million to $44 million band. He vacated his remaining sanctioning body belts in June 2026 and told reporters he has one last dance left. Team director Sergey Lapin said in September 2026 that Deontay Wilder is the target for March 2027 in the United States, though nothing is signed.

The two annual lists that actually try to net things out both put Usyk in nine figures for 2024. Sportico's calendar-year 2024 ranking, published in February 2025, had him seventh among all athletes at $122 million, a figure Sportico calculates after taxes and agent commissions. Forbes' May 2025 list, which covers roughly the same period on a gross basis, had him 11th at $101 million, just outside the top 10, with Fury third at $146 million.

He did not make the Forbes 2026 top 10, where Canelo Alvarez was the only boxer at $170 million. That tracks: the Dubois rematch fell in a window that Forbes measured differently, and the Verhoeven money is a fraction of the Fury fights. Neither list has ever broken out an endorsement figure for Usyk, which tells you how small that piece is relative to the purses.

Usyk's sponsor list, as compiled by The Sport Review, includes Rival gloves, Venum, Boxraw (the Undisputed 17 collaboration), Riyadh Season, Ukrainian firms Technocom and Jaxet, and the tailoring brand Lomus, where he is an investor. None of the values are disclosed. Sports Illustrated, citing Forbes Ukraine, adds a blueberry farm, about $6 million in real estate and vehicles, and stakes in a couple of startups.

His two branded businesses are Ready to Fight, a boxing social network he co-founded with Sergey Lapin that has a strategic partnership with the WBC, and Usyk17 Promotions. The promotional company staged cards in Kyiv in 2020 and 2021, went quiet after Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022, and relaunched in 2026 with a Kyiv show in March that Joshua attended ringside, per Boxing News 24. On the other side of the ledger, the Oleksandr Usyk Foundation funds transport and communications equipment for Ukraine's armed forces and humanitarian aid, and he has been a UNITED24 ambassador since October 2022. A meaningful share of his wealth has gone out the door on purpose.

Add the reported purses: roughly $4 million for Joshua I, $35 million to $40 million for Joshua II, $6 million for Dubois I, $45 million for Fury I, $105 million or so for Fury II, $130 million for Dubois II and $40 million for Verhoeven. That is around $360 million gross across seven fights, and Celebrity Net Worth's read of a "low to mid $300 million" gross career is in the same neighborhood. Salary aggregators that claim $466 million in career purses do not show their work, so ignore them.

From gross to net, assume UK and Ukrainian tax exposure, promoter and management percentages, training camps that run seven figures, and heavy charitable giving. Landing on $150 million to $250 million is honest. Celebrity Net Worth's $140 million sits at the floor of that band, and RBC Ukraine's $165 million citation from August 2025 sits inside it. If the Wilder fight and a Fury trilogy happen in 2027, the top end of the range moves again.