Canelo Alvarez is one of the highest earners in world boxing and his matchup with Billy Joe Saunders is going to be another grand payday.
Sports business publication Sportico reports that Canelo is set to make in the neighborhood $25 million for his super-middleweight title unification bout on Saturday night. That’s up from the paltry $10 million he got for his mandatory title defense/glorified tune-up vs. Avni Yildirim in February. With over 70,000 fans expected at AT&T Stadium in Texas, the revenue for this show will be large enough to boost Canelo’s final purse total.
The event will be broadcast worldwide on DAZN except in Mexico, where Canelo has his own television deal in his home country and gets a cut of the money from there as well.