Mayweather, who reportedly doesn’t read nearly as fast as he dances, earned roughly $83,000 per second during his Saturday night victory over Manny Pacquiao.
That’s based on Mayweather’s earnings of a widely estimated $180 million for his victory over Pacquiao in 12 rounds, each of which goes 3 minutes. The math: We took that $180 million and divided it by 2,160 (12 rounds x 180 seconds). So $83,333, to be exact.
For his part, Pacquiao, who was awarded $120 million, earned $55,555 per second. That’s still far more than the slightly more than $44,000 that the average U.S. worker earns in a year.
Saturday night’s purse was so big that it utterly dominates the second-by-second haul Mayweather made for his last fight in September, in a rematch against Marcos Maidana. For that fight, “Money” Mayweather made a modest $14,800 per second in what was also a unanimous decision to go 47-0. The guaranteed Mayweather payout for that fight, which went 12 rounds, was $32 million.