The Average Professional Boxer Makes Below Poverty Level

When people think of boxing, they tend to consistently refer to the exorbitant purses derived by past fighters such as Mike Tyson and present participants such as Oscar De la Hoya & Floyd Mayweather Jr.. These fighters tend and tended to generate multi-million dollar paydays somewhere in the region of twenty, thirty, and at times more than forty million dollars per fight. To state that this is considered the norm within boxing would be the biggest overstatement in the history of overstatements. …