![Floyd Mayweather Made a Staggering Amount of Money Saturday. Guess What His Minute-by-Minute Take Was](https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnRoZWJsYXplLmNvbS93cC1jb250ZW50L3VwbG9hZHMvMjAxNC8wOS82MDB4NDE3LmpwZyIsImV4cGlyZXNfYXQiOjE3NDM2NjEyNzh9.ZCO_Xok4nJvly5YzQ7rMRzt48iIZ53B7EsN75VD9D3o/image.jpg?width=980&quality=85)
Floyd Mayweather Jr. poses on the scale during a weigh in Friday, Sept. 12, 2014, in Las Vegas. Mayweather Jr. is scheduled to fight Marcos Maidana in a welterweight title fight Saturday in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher) AP Photo/John Locher
Floyd Mayweather Jr. triumphed over Marcos Maidana Saturday night, throwing fewer punches yet landing more of them and ultimately earning the judges' unanimous decision — and welterweight and junior middleweight world titles — in Las Vegas.
But he earned more than a victory and titles — a lot more.
As ESPN noted, Mayweather raked in $32 million from the fight, which breaks down to a staggering figure: $888,889 per minute.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. poses on the scale during a weigh in Friday, Sept. 12, 2014, in Las Vegas. Mayweather Jr. is scheduled to fight Marcos Maidana in a welterweight title fight Saturday in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Of course, losing wasn't so bad either.
Maidana, Mayweather's vanquished opponent, still took in $3 million from the fight, ESPN reported, earning more in a minute of fighting (roughly $83,000) than the average American earns in a year.
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