Indian team captain Virat Kohli is among the highest paid athletes in the world. Virat Kohli is the only Indian sportsmen to be featured in this list. The Indian captain
is on 83 rank with earnings around USD 24 million.
Surprisingly, there are no women
featured in top 100 sports persons in the world. Last year only Serena William was
the only women in this list.
Below is the list of top 10 highest
paid athletes-
This list is being by 41 year old
boxer Floyd Mayweather who earned a total of $285 million between 1 June 2017
and 1 June 2018,on the second spot
is football star Lionel Messi who made
$111million,the third spot goes to another football star Cristiano Ronaldo with
earnings of $108 million.
Conor Mcgregor the mixed martial arts
Irish fighter is fourth on the list with earnings of $99 million,fifth on the
list is Brazilian footballer Neymar with a earnings of $90 million.
NBA icon, Lebron James was the
highest paid basketball player to feature on this list, who is on the sixth
position with total earning of $85.5
million, on the seventh spot is men’s tennis star, Roger Federer who
earned$77.2 million.
Stephen Curry was the other NBA star
to make it to the top 10 in eighth position with total earnings of $76.9
million, Matt Ryan is the highest earning NFL player with total earning of $67.3
million, on the ninth spot.
Another NFL player Matthew Stafford ends
the list of our top ten with earnings of $59.5 million.
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