12 Richest WWE Matches Of All Time
10. The Big Show Vs. Floyd Mayweather (WrestleMania XXIV)
WWE were thrilled to release the dollar figure allegedly afforded to Floyd Mayweather ahead of his WrestleMania XXIV boxer vs wrestler clash with The Big Show. Media affiliates were equally as keen to to report the company's $20million price tag through official outlets, hugely raising the stakes and profile of his novelty bout with the returning giant.
In actuality, Mayweather pocketed something between three and five million dollars for the scrap - no small figure but not the headline-grabber the company had bandied about before the show itself. The scale of the promotion around the fight alone just about justified his fee.
Signing his own hefty new contract, The Big Show had returned a month prior to set up the scrap by feeding his face to the unbeaten boxer, and even a misjudgment of the heel/babyface alignments during the build-up couldn't derail the speeding hype train. A detestable character for much of his career due in-part to his divisive 'Money' gimmick, Floyd was a stranger in a strange land in front of a WWE audience buzzing to see him flattened by their irresistible force.
The Orlando supercard drew a legitimately impressive 1,058,000 buys on pay-per-view, whilst 74,635 fans filled out the dilapidated Citrus Bowl for one of the company's best ever WrestleManias.