Boxing announcer Michael Buffer had a net worth of over $400 million, according to reports.
Legendary boxing announcer Michael Buffer can often be seen with a very noticeable grin on his face as he stands inside the ring – and for good reason.
Buffer's signature catchphrase"Let's get ready to rumble" has earned him worldwide fame. In fact, after coining the iconic line in 1984, he later acquired a federal trademark for it. After trying his hand at several other careers, including acting and modeling, he eventually found his talent inIn fact, his net worth is a reported $400 million after revenue from licensing deals."Before boxing I was a car salesman but I was horrible at it and had to make a living elsewhere," Buffer told“For quite a while I was a model and then aged 38 I started as a ring announcer - but at the beginning if you said I was horrible at that as well, it would have been a compliment.
“I was pretty dreadful on my first night as an announcer as back in those days the scorecards were written in a very strange way so that didn’t help and some of the fighter’s names were unpronounceable."It is believed that depending on the fight, Buffer earns between $25,000 and $100,000 every time he utters those five famous words, according toThey also claim that the veteran has been paid $1 million on a handful of 'extremely' rare occasions.
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