While putting together a Tale of the Tape for the long-awaited Floyd Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao fight, we stumbled across some much older Tale of the Tape pictures, dating all the way back to 1923.

The previous record base purse of $32 million was produced by Mayweather in his last two fights, in May against Robert Guerrero and in 2012 against Miguel Cotto. Alvarez will earn a $5 million ...