How much is Anthony Joshua worth? Boxer's huge wealth explained

Anthony Joshua is 1 of the richest sportspeople successful Britain and volition adhd to his nett worthy erstwhile helium takes connected Daniel Dubois contiguous astatine Wembley

Anthony Joshua's nett worthy could deed £200million aft tonight's combat with Daniel Dubois astatine Wembley.

Joshua volition situation heavyweight world champion Dubois for his rubric successful beforehand of 96,000 fans astatine the nationalist stadium arsenic helium attempts to go a three-time ruler of boxing's premier division. And having turned nonrecreational successful 2013, the Olympic champion has earned a luck from the athletics - and contiguous volition beryllium nary different.

Although the purses are a closely-guarded secret, Joshua is believed to person earned up to £30million from his past triumph - a second-round KO of erstwhile UFC satellite champion Francis Ngannou successful March. Joshua pocketed a chill £10m for his triumph implicit Jermaine Franklin past year, and a akin magnitude for his knockout of Robert Helenius successful August. He ended 2024 with an awesome show against Otto Wallin, besides bagging astir £10m for that bout.

But Joshua's luck doesn't conscionable travel from the ring; helium has built a marque since his aboriginal days successful the nonrecreational ranks and has been backed by a fig of blue-chip sponsors. And erstwhile Joshua's promoter Eddie Hearn was asked by GRM Daily if rival Tyson Fury was the astir palmy boxer successful the UK ever, from a fiscal perspective, helium insisted Joshua was mode retired successful front. "No, AJ, decidedly AJ," helium said.

"Fury's made a batch of wealth the past three, four, 5 years but AJ has been astatine it for the past decennary - large pay-per-views, immense tract fees. He's besides the archetypal combatant that's had the monolithic commercialized deals. UnderArmour, Beats, Lucozade, they're big, large brands getting down him. That's wherefore I respect AJ truthful much, due to the fact that helium wants it much now, and helium works harder present than he's ever worked successful the athletics And he's successful the backmost extremity of his career."

Indeed, Joshua was ranked 16th connected the Forbes database of best-paid athletes this year, earning conscionable implicit £60m, including astir £6m from his deals with DAZN, Hugo Boss and Under Armour. Joshua's net are considerably abbreviated of the apical 3 successful the list, however, with Cristiano Ronaldo earning £195m , John Ram pocketing £163m and Lionel Messi banking £101m.

Despite being the satellite champion, Dubois is apt to gain overmuch little than Joshua, fixed helium is the lesser-known sanction of the two. He has fought backmost from 2 stoppage defeats, archetypal by Joe Joyce down closed doors during the coronavirus pandemic, and past by Oleksandr Usyk successful Poland past year. He has since beaten Jarrell Miller and Filip Hrgovic to go satellite champion but volition commencement tonight's combat arsenic the underdog.