There is confirmation that Anthony Joshua and Wladamir Klitschko will share the 30 million Euros slice with 55% going to Joshua and Klitschko taking home the 45% for Sunday’s world heavyweight clash.
This will be the biggest purse in British boxer, Joshua’s career so far who’s previous best was around 3 million Euro from Dillian Whyte fight.
Joshua’s most recent fight against Eric Molina drew just under 400,000 Pay Per View buys in the UK and Joshua pocketed around 2 million Euros from that fight.
His career best was against Whyte when he earned around 3 million Euros just from Pay Per View share.
His fight against Dominic Breazel also earned him around 2 million Euros.
Now he has a multi‑fight deal with US broadcaster Showtime and also the tier‑based Pay Per View contract with home broadcaster, SkySports.
He also has several high profile endorsement deals with Beats and UnderArmour.
Eddie Hearns confirmed in december while announcing Klitschko fight that Joshua has earned between 13 to 15 million Euros so far in his career.
And he can expect to double that just from Sunday’s mega fight.
Anthony Joshua says he will be competing at a "whole new level" when he takes on Klitschko.
Joshua will fight the Ukrainian for his IBF title and the vacant WBA Super and IBO heavyweight belts in front of 90,000 fans at Wembley.
27-year-old Joshua, says his 13 weeks of preparation have been "tougher times than he has had in any walk of life".
41-year-old Klitschko lost his heavyweight title to Tyson Fury in November 2015 ‑ his first defeat in 11 years.
The fight program starts at 6am Sunday.
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