📈”Forbes’ lists of top-earning athletes
Floyd Mayweather regains title as world’s top earning athlete
Cristiano Ronaldo – top for the past two years – drops to third, with Lionel Messi edging him out of second place.
There are no women on the list, after the previous sole entrant, Serena Williams, dropped out of the chart.
The top 100 athletes earned a total of $3.8bn, up 23% from last year, Forbes said.
The top 10
Floyd Mayweather – boxing ($285m)
Lionel Messi – football ($111m)
Cristiano Ronaldo – football ($108m)
Conor McGregor – mixed martial arts ($99m)
Neymar – football ($90m)
LeBron James – basketball ($85,5m)
Roger Federer – tennis ($77.2m)
Stephen Curry – basketball ($76.9m)
Matt Ryan – American football ($67.3m)
Matthew Stafford – American football ($59.5m)
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