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Anthony Joshua will earn £20 million despite losing while Andy Ruiz Jr takes home just £5m after winning the world title fight
Newly-crowned world
champion, Andy Ruiz Jr, 29, will only get £5million after his
historic win against Anthony Joshua, 29, at Madison Square Garden
over the weekend.
The Mexican boxer knocked down the British/Nigerian boxer four times, before forcing a seventh-round stoppage to dethrone the WBA, WBO and IBF champion and became the first Mexican-American heavyweight world champion.
The upset was
arguably the biggest within the division since Hasim Rahman stopped Lennox
Lewis in 2001 and brought back memories of James "Buster" Douglas'
1990 win over Mike Tyson. But it is Joshua who will earn a bigger share of the
fight purse.
According to Mail Online, Joshua will earn £20million from the deal agreed
before the fight in New York.
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