David Benavidez vs. Oleksandr Gvozdyk Purse and Payouts: Mexican Monster’s Win Over ‘The Nail’ Reportedly Results in Massive Earnings

Allan Binoy | 16/06/2024
David Benavidez vs. Oleksandr Gvozdyk Purse and Payouts: Mexican Monster's Win Over 'The Nail' Reportedly Results in Massive Earnings

Another David Benavidez fight night, another big payday as he beat Oleksandr Gvozdyk in his light heavyweight debut to secure the WBC interim title. Needless to say, people have been wondering how much Benavidez got paid for that awesome performance.

NY Fights suggests Benavidez could reportedly earn a $2 million base payout, with the PPV share possibly raking it up to $6 million. These are still speculations; educated speculations, but speculations all the same and need to be taken with a pinch of salt.

His opponent, Gvozdyk, on the other hand, had a base payout of reportedly $500k with the opportunity to make another $400-$500k through PPV sales, bringing his final purse from the fight to nearly a million bucks.

 

Despite the win, and the millions of dollars, what The Mexican Monster really wants is to trade shots with Canelo Alvarez. However, in the absence of that particular motivator, he seems focused on the light heavyweight title at the moment. Right now, he is just too huge for the middleweight division and would have to cut a lot of weight.

All that said, if given the chance, ‘The Monster’ would still like to take out Alvarez.

Canelo Alvarez is still the fight to make for The Mexican Monster

The Mexican boxer has been calling out his fellow countryman for a long time but the Undisputed super middleweight champion hasn’t given him the time of the day. The best way to get a champion’s attention is to keep winning and the light heavyweight boxer seems to be doing just fine in that department.

To make matters even more obvious than they already are, Benavidez called out Alvarez again after his win last night.

“I’m still looking to go down to 168 (lbs) fight for the title, if we’re gonna get Canelo, or if they would like to vacate it I would like to win it one more time.”

 

Benavidez wants to fight in both weight classes, meaning he wants to take on both Canelo Alvarez and Dmitry Bivol, a tall order for any man; dead or alive.

The weight cut itself would be brutal but if the boxer can commit to it, fans will have some very interesting days ahead of them.

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Allan Binoy

Allan Binoy is a MMA journalist at The SportsRush. Taken to the sport in 2015, thanks to a certain Conor McGregor, Allan has himself dabbled in the martial arts. And having graduated from Loyola College, Chennai, with a degree in English Literature, he has learnt to use his love for language to have a voice in the MMA community. Allan has been writing about the gladiatorial stories for more than three years now and has pursued excellence at a number of reputable media organizations, covering every UFC PPV in the last couple of years. In addition to this, the southpaw is also a semi-professional soccer player for Diego Juniors FC in Pune, playing in the Pune Super Division League.

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