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Floyd ‘Money’ Mayweather earnt £205.9m from his
fight against Conor McGregor
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Tuesday, June 5, 2018 –
3:41pm
His nickname is “Money” so it comes as no surprise that Floyd
Mayweather has topped the Forbes annual list of the world’s 100
highest-paid athletes.
Pictures: top 10 richest sports stars of all
time
The retired American boxer has taken top spot on the Forbes
sports rich list for the fourth time in seven years. Footballers
Lionel Messi of Barcelona and Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo came
second and third respectively.
Mayweather earnt $275m (£205.9m) from his fight against UFC star
Conor McGregor last August and supplemented his annual income with
$10m (£7.49m) in endorsements, Forbes reports.
Second-placed Messi made $111m (£83.1m) thanks to his $84m
(£62.9m) in salary and winnings and endorsements worth $27m
(£20.2m). His rival Ronaldo, who was top of the list the two
previous years, drops to third with $108m (£80.9). The Real Madrid
star earnt $61m (£45.7m) in salary and winnings and made $47m
(£35.2m) in endorsements.
Mixed-martial arts and UFC star McGregor is fourth on the
list and is joined in the top ten by Brazil footballer Neymar,
basketball players LeBron James and Steph Curry, tennis ace Roger
Federer and NFL quarterbacks Matt Ryan and Matthew
Stafford.
How Forbes creates the rich list
Forbes’s sporting rich list is created after calculating
an athlete’s earnings from prize money, salaries and bonuses in the
year to 1 June 2018.
The Forbes data reveals that the 100 highest-paid athletes
earned a collective $3.8bn (£2.84bn) during the past 12 months –
that’s a 23% increase from the previous year.
In the top 100 list the NFL had 18 athletes, 14 were
baseball players and nine were footballers. Five golfers, four
boxers and four tennis players also made the list.
Forbes 2018 sports rich list top
ten
- 1 Floyd Mayweather (boxing): $285m (£213.6m)
- 2 Lionel Messi (football): $111m (£83.1m)
- 3 Cristiano Ronaldo (football): $108m (£80.9m)
- 4 Conor McGregor (UFC/boxing): $99m (£74.2m)
- 5 Neymar (football): $90m (£67.4m)
- 6 LeBron James (basketball): $85.5m (£64.1m)
- 7 Roger Federer (tennis): $77.2m (£57.8m)
- 8 Stephen Curry (basketball): $76.9m (£57.6m)
- 9 Matt Ryan (American football): $67.3m (£50.4m)
- 10 Matthew Stafford (American football): $59.5m (£44.6m)
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