Joe Smith Jr,should now be able to quit his construction job

[SkillspayBills]

He will have an all NY bout next time up. Hopefully he gets a nice payday and a slot on HBO. He deserves that ****.

[BrometheusBob.]

I thought he had quit before the Hopkins fight but can't recall.

Don't feel like thumbing through his interviews...

[Tomjas]

more than he makes a yr working construction.. hell even before taxes are taken out of his purse thats atleast the minimum 3 yrs of construction.. if hes just a grunt

Doubt it

Dont forget cuts to promoter/manager, corner, etc plus expenses

Be lucky to bank 40k and that's probably generous

[NC Uppercut]

That win alone will ensure him a nice payday next..I always love to see young fighters get a chance to rise to fame and get nice paydays..Hope to see this guy get his just due as he had a damn good 2016

I agree. I sure didn't think it would have ended like it did but Smith did his "new" full time job.

[KeyboardWarrior]

Joe Smith Jr has arrived. Hopefully he'll get a fight with someone along the lines of a Karpency before stepping in with Stevenson.

[vman075]

He shouldn't. This is why athletes go broke. He'll prob make around 300k, maybe 500k at the most. It's not enough to live the rest of your life on. He has a union job that give him retirement benefits for the rest of his life. He should keep doing construction and supplement that income with boxing.

[Ryn0]

I thought he had quit before the Hopkins fight but can't recall.

Don't feel like thumbing through his interviews...

He 'quit' his 7th pro fight. He won the first two rounds but at the end of the second the guy he was fighting broke his jaw in two places and then fought and won the next two rounds before getting shoulder in a clinch to the jaw and dropping out.

Can say that I've had my jaw broken in two places at once and I can't imagine fighting on for long.

[Motorcity Cobra]

He only made 140k. I wonder how much of that he got to take home. Hopefully in his next fight he can get paid

Working union construction in NY he probably makes more than that a year! I mean after he paid his trainers an manager and team and California taxes. Probably took home less than half of that

[ΣNΣMY]

During the lead up to this fight he said he would keep his job no matter the result.

[jreckoning]

I think it's cool that he continues to work contruction. It's like he wants to use the money from boxing to make sure he can always live a comfortable life from here on out. Meanwhile guys like Broner throw money down the toilet and go deal with court issues ever couple months and will probably be worth less than a construction worker by the time they hit 45.

He should definitely quit or put it on the backburner until his fighting days are over. Get the guap in the ring while the gettin is good.

Last thing dude wants is an on-the-job injury that ****s up a 6 or 7 figure payday.