Week 45 · Monday, 2 November 2026
Section
Boxing as an industry: promoters and platforms, sanctioning bodies and their fees, the pay-per-view model and the deals that decide which fights get made.
3 stories · since 2026
Fight BusinessExplainer
A $1m purse is rarely $1m. We walk a hypothetical guarantee through manager, trainer, sanctioning, camp and tax deductions to show what a boxer actually keeps.
Vegas & EventsHistory
From a 1931 gambling law to a 2016 arena on the Strip: how casinos learned to pay site fees for big fights and turned Las Vegas into boxing's home address.
Fight BusinessData
Only two fights are reported to have passed 4m US pay-per-view buys, and Floyd Mayweather headlined both. We map the ceiling and what it takes to reach it.