Joe Rogan turned a casual conversation about Floyd Mayweather’s well-documented financial troubles into an impromptu accounting session that landed on a startling figure: somewhere around $60 million spent on watches and cars alone.
The discussion began with Rogan and Tony Hinchcliffe trying to make sense of how a boxer who reportedly earned around $750 million during his career could be facing financial issues at just 49 years old. Rogan then pulled up a clip of Mayweather showing off his watch collection. In the video, Mayweather proudly explained his approach to luxury timepieces.
“When I go on vacation for 30 days, I take 30 watches with me,” Mayweather said.
He then revealed the value of one of the watches in his collection.
“I’m going to go off $50,000 because I ain’t got nothing else to do,” he added, after mentioning that one of his watches was worth $18 million.
That clip prompted Rogan to start estimating just how much money Mayweather had tied up in luxury items.
“You have one $18 million watch. You can’t have 18 watches that cost millions of dollars,” Rogan said, explaining how quickly the numbers escalate.
He argued that once someone reaches that level of wealth, expensive purchases rarely stop at just one item. Mayweather, he noted, was known for traveling with suitcases full of Patek Philippe watches and other high-end timepieces, rotating them as everyday accessories rather than treating them as long-term investments.
Rogan then shifted his attention to Mayweather’s car collection. He estimated that the boxer owned four or five Rolls-Royces worth roughly $500,000 each, along with around ten Ferraris costing close to $1 million apiece.
“Some of those Ferraris are almost a million dollars. You have ten almost-a-million-dollar cars,” Rogan said.
Factoring in those vehicles alongside a watch collection that included an $18 million piece and numerous other watches worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, he argued the total spending adds up remarkably fast.
After running through the numbers, Rogan arrived at his conclusion.
“Just in watches and cars alone, we’re looking at $50-60 million,” he said.
Hinchcliffe observed that Mayweather’s lifestyle was built around publicly showcasing his wealth. It wasn’t simply about buying luxury items,it was about putting that spending on display, from opening suitcases full of watches to posting them on social media.
Rogan agreed, suggesting that this kind of lifestyle makes it much easier for even hundreds of millions of dollars to disappear.
Rogan also pointed to Mike Tyson as another example of a boxer who earned and lost hundreds of millions of dollars, arguing that the issue extends beyond Mayweather and reflects a pattern among elite athletes who were never properly equipped to manage that level of wealth.
The pair agreed that the simplest solution would have been placing someone trustworthy in charge of managing the money from the beginning.
