Every year, Forbes magazine ranks the hundreds of the highest paid athletes on the planet. The calculation includes salaries, bonuses, bonuses, and advertising income for the previous 12 months.
The latest rating of the magazine is headed by 35-year-old American boxer Floyd Mayweather. During the reporting year, one of the best professionals of our time entered the ring only twice, spent less than two hours on it and earned 40 and 45 million dollars for these fights, respectively.
The second place in the rating was taken by his colleague - Filipino welterweight boxer, Manny Pacquiao. Despite losing his WBO world title, he earned $ 62 million. He received six of them through advertising partnerships with Hennessy, Nike and Hewlett-Packard.
Legendary golfer Tiger Woods, who has headed this Forbes rating for the past ten years, this time went down from Olympus to the third position. He earned $ 60 million, which is 16 million less than a year earlier. According to experts, this is how much the accusations of adultery, which became public, cost him so much. These are their morals - many sponsors refused to cooperate with Woods after a family scandal.
The NBA has reached the fourth line of the rating. Miami Heat forward LeBron James earned $ 53 million. Swiss tennis player Roger Federer received only three hundred thousand less. Moreover, most of his income, about $ 30 million, was formed thanks to cooperation with nine advertising sponsors.
The top ten also includes: Los Angeles Lakers basketball player Kobe Bryant, another American golfer Phil Mickelson, two footballers - midfielders from Los Angeles Galaxy David Beckham and Real Madrid Cristiano Ronaldo. Rounding out the list is American football's Peyton Manning, quarterback of the Indianapolis Colts.
The richest athlete in the world is tennis player Maria Sharapova. She earned almost 28 million and is located on the 26th line of the rating.
In total, the first hundred received about 2 billion 600 million dollars in a year.
