#1 Floyd Mayweather – $300 million
The highest-paid athlete in 2015 is Floyd Mayweather. The American professional boxer in undefeated as a professional and is a five-division world champion, with eleven world titles and lineal championships in four different weight classes.
Mayweather is the WBC, WBA, WBO and Ring welterweight champion, and the WBC Super, WBA, and Ring junior middle weight champion.
He is also rated as the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world by many sporting news and boxing websites, including Ring, Sports Illustrated, ESPN, BoxRec, Fox Sports, and Yahoo! Sports.
Mayweather topped the Forbes and Sports Illustrated lists of the 50 highest-paid athletes of 2012 and 2013, and the Forbes list again in 2014, listing Mayweather as the highest paid athlete in the world.
His $300 million year broke the record for athlete earnings, which was previously held by Tiger Woods who banked $115 million in 2008.
The Pacquiao fight marked the fifth bout in the blockbuster 30-month, six fight deal he signed with Showtime in 2013. Mayweather, whose record stands at 48-0, plans to fight in September to complete his Showtime deal and then retire.
As you can see it pays very well to be the best in the world at anything and the hours put into it directly reflect in your net worth! What do you think about this ranking?
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