Forbes Magazine recently released their annual list of the Top 100 Highest Paid Athletes and as always there’s a few a surprises and curious inclusions.
Here’s a few of my observations from the list (see full list after the jump):
- Boxing may be considered “dead” but Manny and Floyd are seeing plenty of dead presidents; Wladimir Klitschko comes in at #24 overall
- Haloti Ngata at #12 overall and the 2nd highest paid NFL player from last year? That probably doesn’t even include the # of steak dinners Ray Lewis bought him for extending his playing career
- Maria Sharapova isn’t only one of the most beautiful athletes in the world, she was the highest paid female last year
- Who knew cricketers could make so much dough - Sachin Tendulkar is the cricketer in case you’re slacking on your Indian Cricket knowledge
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Forbes Top 10 Highest Paid Athletes:
1 Floyd Mayweather $85m
2 Manny Pacquiao $62m
3 Tiger Woods $59.4m
4 LeBron James $53m
5 Roger Federer $52.7m
6 Kobe Bryant $52.3m
7 Phil Mickelson $47.8m
8 David Beckham $46m
9 Cristiano Ronaldo $42.5m
10 Peyton Manning $42.4m
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11-90:
#11 Lionel Messi
Total earnings: $39 million
#12 Haloti Ngata
Total earnings: $37.3 million
#13 Larry Fitzgerald
Total earnings: $36.8 million
#14 Ndamukong Suh
Total earnings: $36 million
#15 Charles Johnson
Total earnings: $34.4 million
#16 Rafael Nadal
Total earnings: $33.2 million
#16 Mario Williams
Total earnings: $33.2 million
#18 Alex Rodriguez
Total earnings: $33 million
#19 Fernando Alonso
Total earnings: $32 million
#20 Valentino Rossi
Total earnings: $30 million
#20 Michael Schumacher
Total earnings: $30 million
#22 Darrelle Revis
Total earnings: $28.3 million
#23 Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Total earnings: $28.2 million
#24 Wladimir Klitschko
Total earnings: $28 million
#24 Lewis Hamilton
Total earnings: $28 million
#26 Maria Sharapova
Total earnings: $27.9 million
#27 Sam Bradford
Total earnings: $27.8 million
#28 Tom Brady
Total earnings: $27.1 million
#29 Joe Mauer
Total earnings: $27 million
#30 Eli Manning
Total earnings: $26.6 million
#31 Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Total earnings: $26.5 million
#31 LaMarr Woodley
Total earnings: $26.5 million
#33 Dwight Howard
Total earnings: $25.6 million
#34 Kevin Durant
Total earnings: $25.5 million
#35 Dwyane Wade
Total earnings: $24.7 million
#36 Derek Jeter
Total earnings: $24.5 million
#37 Wayne Rooney
Total earnings: $24.3 million
#38 Mark Sanchez
Total earnings: $24.2 million
#39 Ichiro Suzuki
Total earnings: $24 million
#40 CC Sabathia
Total earnings: $23.8 million
#40 Johan Santana
Total earnings: $23.8 million
#42 Jeff Gordon: $23.6 million
#43 Ben Roethlisberger
Total earnings: $23.3 million
#44 Carmelo Anthony
Total earnings: $22.9 million
#45 Mark Teixeira
Total earnings: $22.8 million
#46 Amar’e Stoudemire
Total earnings: $22.7 million
#47 Tony Stewart
Total earnings: $22.3 million
#48 Luke Donald
Total earnings: $22.2 million
#49 Vernon Wells
Total earnings: $22.1 million
#50 Michael Vick
Total earnings: $22 million
#51 Logan Mankins
Total earnings: $21.9 million
#51 Richard Seymour
Total earnings: $21.9 million
#53 Jimmie Johnson
Total earnings: $21.5 million
#53 Ryan Howard
Total earnings: $21.5 million
#53 Adrian Peterson
Total earnings: $21.5 million
#56 Jon Beason
Total earnings: $21.4 million
#57 Kevin Garnett
Total earnings: $21.1 million
#58 Matthew Stafford
Total earnings: $20.9 million
#59 Miguel Cabrera
Total earnings: $20.8 million
#59 Kaká
Total earnings: $20.8 million
#61 Roy Halladay
Total earnings: $20.6 million
#61 Novak Djokovic
Total earnings: $20.6 million
#63 Usain Bolt
Total earnings: $20.3 million
#63 D’Brickashaw Ferguson
Total earnings: $20.3 million
#65 Sergio Aguero
Total earnings: $20.1 million
#66 DeAngelo Williams
Total earnings: $19.9 million
#67 Joe Thomas
Total earnings: $19.8 million
#68 Fernando Torres
Total earnings: $19.6 million
#68 Eric Berry
Total earnings: $19.6 million
#68 Prince Fielder
Total earnings: $19.6 million
#71 Ryan Kalil
Total earnings: $19.4 million
#72 Chris Paul
Total earnings: $19.2 million
#73 Yaya Touré
Total earnings: $19.1 million
#73 Tim Duncan
Total earnings: $19.1 million
#75 Miguel Cotto
Total earnings: $19 million
#76 Barry Zito
Total earnings: $18.9 million
#77 Robert Mathis
Total earnings: $18.7 million
#78 Carlos Lee
Total earnings: $18.6 million
#78 Sachin Tendulkar
Total earnings: $18.6 million
#78 Lawrence Timmons
Total earnings: $18.6 million
#81 Li Na
Total earnings: $18.4 million
#82 Alfonso Soriano
Total earnings: $18.3 millio
#82 Torii Hunter
Total earnings: $18.3 million
#84 Deron Williams
Total earnings: $18.2 million
#85 Jonathan Joseph
Total earnings: $18.1 million
#86 Darnell Dockett
Total earnings: $18 million
#87 Matt Holliday
Total earnings: $17.6 million
#88 Rashard Lewis
Total earnings: $17.5 million
#88 Justin Verlander
Total earnings: $17.5 million
#88 John Terry
Total earnings: $17.5 million
#91 Carlos Zambrano
Total earnings: $17.4 million
#91 Albert Pujols
Total earnings: $17.4 million
#91 Ernie Els
Total earnings: $17.4 million
#91 Rory McIlroy
Total earnings: $17.4 million
#95 Pau Gasol
Total earnings: $17.2 million
#96 Russell Okung
Total earnings: $17.1 million
#97 Steven Gerrard
Total earnings: $17 million
#98 Carl Crawford
Total earnings: $16.9 million
#99 Rolando McClain
Total earnings: $16.7 million
#100 Jake Peavy
Total earnings: $16.6 million
*Full list compiled from Now Public
