Floyd Mayweather is a legend both in career and ability to make money. Mayweather has surpassed both football superstars Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi to become the athletes to make money for the past decade.
A company owned by Penske said Mayweather has earned the total amount of money not to mention inflation of $ 1.08 billion. If adjusted by inflation, the amount of Mayweather earned is 1.2 billion USD, ranked 6th in the list of athletes who make the most money of all time published by Sportico.
The two most attractive boxing matches, bringing the most money in the boxing history, are all of Floyd Mayweather, a match against Manny Pacquiao and a match against Conor McGregor.
The most valuable battle of boxing history was dubbed the “billion -dollar match”, Mayweather compared to Conor McGregor. This match brought Mayweather about $ 300 million. The match against Manny Pacquiao, which took place in May 2015, helped “Money Man” have an additional $ 200 million.
The symbolic puncher of the 42 -year -old Mayweather boxing village earns 915 million USD (21.2 trillion) after the matches in the past 10 years. The “Lonely Cau Lon” retired in August 2017 ended his career with an impressive achievement of 50-0.
According to the list published by Sportico, basketball player Michael Jordan topped the list of income adjusted according to inflation with $ 2.62 billion. Followed by golfer Tiger Woods (2.1 billion USD), Arnold Palmer ($ 1.5 billion), Jack Nicklaus (US $ 1.38 billion) and football star Cristiano Ronaldo ($ 1.24 billion).
The other four boxers made the list of the top 25 most money -making athletes including Mike Tyson in 16th with $ 775 million, Manny Pacquiao in 18th place with 630 million USD and Oscar de La Hoya at the 23rd position with $ 580 million.
Surprisingly, the bright star of UFC – Conor McGregor was not on this list.