Hobbs says he can now buy furniture for his house

Statements like this have to be embarrassing for shoe sponsors right? He's basically saying Adidas doesn't pay enough to simply furnish my own house. If Adidas isn't embarrassed they should be - and pay him more.

Good for Hobbs. Great to see him succeeding and I can't wait to see what he does as he gets older.

Didn’t rojo say he heard Kessler was getting about $600k per year?

Awesome win for Kessler. Goes in the history books

That's some nice prize money. He should now do similar to Mondo. Do this race every year and lower the WR by a second each time

Could be but 60k is a nice bonus

It's just something you say. It's not that he literally couldn't afford furniture, but now he can buy some decent furniture without having to dip into any other sources of funds.

Agreed. I wouldn’t read too deeply into it. Besides he just said he’s become a home owner at age 20. Not many 20 year olds can lay claim to that. Adidas can’t be paying him too badly!

Meh- he was excited and it was a big win with decent prize money. I'm sure he's not so poor that he could buy a house and have no money left over.

It's possible that he understands that significant earnings in his chosen sport are not guaranteed and he is investing his money wisely while he can. He could have budgeted for the house, but not the furniture.

If taken at face value (which it shouldn’t be), it would be embarrassing for Kessler if he literally used all of his funds to buy a house, regardless of how much he was getting paid.

Given that we don’t know know how much the house cost, it says nothing about adidas

I wonder what kind of furniture he will get

The problem is that now where there is a new WR to break some of the top guns may be targeting the road mile so one second might not be enough.

Considering he lives in the mid-west, and can afford high end furniture, I'm going to go with Blu Dot.

He should get some cool carpets, also some art pieces, and a coffee table book.

Or maybe a nice chesterfield, or an ottoman.

Hope he buy an Eames ottoman chair for 7k. Makes a statement in any room.

I hope he can afford a rug to tie the room together.

Would you rather he spend it on hookers and blow?

Most of the people posting on this thread must be autistic.