The Sunday Times Rich List is always one of the most eagerly-awaited media drops of the year, and it ALWAYS has boxing interest.
With DAZN owner Leonard Blavatnik a mainstay, and sporting superstars like Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua, the noble art is a money-spinning game.
The latest list – revealed by the Sunday Times on Friday morning, reveals how the biggest names are performing when it comes to coin. The numbers are, as ever, pretty illuminating.
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Blavatnik drops a spot, and about £4bn
The big story at the top end of the list concerns DAZN owner Blavatnik, who has pumped a fortune into boxing through his streaming platform – dubbed ‘the Netflix of sports’ upon its launch in 2016.
DAZN initially set up shop in Germany and Japan before a high-profile move into the U.S. market with boxing at the forefront. Massive deals with promoter Eddie Hearn and Matchroom Boxing, and with boxing’s P4P king Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez, sent shockwaves through the sport. It also now has Joshua under contract as well – all his fights stream globally on DAZN.
While the streaming platform appears to be getting stronger though, Blavatnik’s net worth is not – at least if you believe the Sunday Times Rich List. It claims the 67-year-old billionaire is down to #3 on the list from #2 last year – with his net worth allegedly dropping from £29.46bn to £25.73bn.
Blavatnik was not the only big hitter to take a drop in this year’s List – Manchester United part-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s reported wealth dropped by more than £6bn as he fell from #4 to #7 in the rankings.
The 2025 List is topped by Gopi Hinduja and family, with an incredible wealth of £35.304bn.
Joshua tops Adele, and Fury, really?
There is better news for DAZN’s star boxing asset Joshua though, with the 35-year-old former two-time world heavyweight champion sitting pretty in the UK’s Richest 40 under 40 list. He occupies the #24 spot with a reported wealth of £195m and is just ahead of singing superstar Adele (£170m).
Other notable stars in that 40 Under 40 List are England soccer star Harry Kane (£100m), tennis great Sir Andy Murray (£110m) and another singing superstar Dua Lipa (£115m).
The List claims that AJ has a £100million property portfolio and ‘bagged £25m’ for his last fight – that devastating KO defeat by Daniel Dubois in front of almost 100,000 fans at Wembley Stadium last September.
One man conspicuous by his absence on that list, and very surprisingly so, is another former world heavyweight king Tyson Fury. We know these lists are never totally accurate – they cannot be given not all information is publicly available (and why would it be).
What makes us really doubt the veracity of Fury’s absence from the Top 40 Under 40 is the fact ‘The Gypsy King’ had two megafights vs Oleksandr Usyk in 2024, and likely earned north of £50m for each of them. So go figure…
Either way, these Lists, and reports, are designed for easy headlines – just don’t read 100percent into the actual figures. We know Fury and AJ are doing okay, but nobody knows the exact numbers exact them. And rightfully so.
