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Input: Floyd Mayweather has been cashing multi-million checks for his fights for more than a decade. He banked at least $25 million for each of his past nine bouts going back to 2007 when he defeated Oscar De La Hoya in the most watched fight in the history of boxing pay-per-view events. Mayweather has earned almost $400 million in the ring since he turned pro in 1996 after the Olympics, but he has never had a year like this past one. 
  
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 Mayweather earned $105 million during the past 12 months for 72 minutes of work in the ring for fights against Canelo Alvarez and Marcos Maidana. The payday puts Mayweather atop Forbes’ annual list of the world’s highest-paid athletes for the second time in three years. Mayweather is the first athlete, besides Tiger Woods, to crack the $100 million earnings threshold (Michael Jordan, Michael Schumacher, Evander Holyfield and Mike Tyson have also turned the trick on an inflation-adjusted basis). The September Mayweather-Canelo fight billed as “The One” set records for highest PPV gross ($150 million), live gate ($20 million) and total revenue (roughly $200 million). 
  
 The Canelo fight marked the second bout in the blockbuster 30-month, six-fight deal Mayweather signed with Showtime in 2013. Mayweather earned a guaranteed $32 million for his May fight with Marcos Maidana where the PPV buys are expected to finish between 900,000 and one million when they are all counted, compared to 2.2 million for Mayweather-Alvarez. Mayweather is the most popular boxer on the planet which helps drive PPV sales, but his paychecks get a boost because he also serves as fight promoter, in addition to pugilist. 
  
 Real Madrid and Portugal national team star Cristiano Ronaldo leads a group of 15 soccer players in the top 100. Ronaldo ranks second overall with total earnings of $80 million. We estimate his pre-tax Real Madrid salary, including bonuses, at $52 million for the past 12 month (Ronaldo's salary net of taxes is often reported in the press). 
  
 Ronaldo has 11 endorsement partners like Emirates, Nike, Samsung Electronics and Toyota Motor that generate $28 million a year in income. Real Madrid locked up the reigning player of the year in September for five more years in a deal worth $200 million, plus bonuses. Ronaldo has one of the biggest social media followings on the planet with 83 million Facebook fans and 26 million Twitter followers (see “The Biggest Athletes On Social Media”). 
  
 LeBron James ranks third with earnings of $72.3 million. James is the NBA's biggest endorsement star, thanks to deals with Nike, McDonald's , Coca-Cola , Upper Deck and others. Sales of his signature Nike shoes were tops among active players at $300 million in the U.S. during 2013, according to research firm SportsOneSource, and his jersey was the NBA's best-seller. James also made millions from Apple ’s purchase of Beats by Dre for $3 billion. James had a very small equity stake in the company and made the brand a must-have accessory by outfitting the 2008 U.S. Olympic basketball team in Beijing in the high-priced headphones. 
  
 Lionel Messi ranks fourth at $64.7 million. His streak of four straight FIFA Ballon d’Or awards given to the world’s best soccer player was broken in January by Ronaldo. The two compete on the pitch as the stars of the sport’s two biggest clubs, Barcelona and Real Madrid. In May, Messi signed his seventh contract in 11 years with Barca. The deal is expected to slightly exceed Ronaldo’s pact on an annual basis. They also vie for sponsor dollars as the premier figures in the world’s biggest sport. Messi’s endorsement portfolio includes Adidas, Electronic Arts, Gillette, Herbalife, PepsiCo and Turkish Airlines. 
  
 Rounding out the top five is NBA legend Kobe Bryant at $61.5 million. Bryant had the highest salary in the NBA for the fourth straight year during the 2013-14 season. His $30.5 million salary is nearly $8 million higher than any other player. He inked a two-year, $48.5 million contract extension in November that will keep his on-court salary tops in the NBA. Bryant missed all but six games of the 2013-14 season after a fracture in his left knee, but his jersey was still the NBA's third best seller during the season after James and Kevin Durant. 
  
 His deals with the likes of Turkish Air, Lenovo, Hublot, Nike and Panini are worth $30 million annually. Bryant invested $4-6 million this year to buy more than 10% of emerging sports drink BodyArmour. It was the first investment of his new company Kobe Inc. 
  
 Full list: The World's Highest-Paid Athletes 
  
 Our earnings figures include salaries, bonuses, prize money, appearance fees, as well as licensing and endorsement income paid out during the 12 months between June 1, 2013 and June 1, 2014. We do not deduct for taxes or agents’ fees. We also do not include investment income unless it is a stake in a company tied to a sponsorship like James’ Beats deal. 
  
 The 100 highest-paid made a collective $2.75 billion over the last 12 months, up 5% from last year. There are 29 newcomers to the list led by Atlanta Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan, who came in at No. 10 with earnings of $41.8 million. The entry point for the top 100, who come from 27 countries across 10 sports, was $17.3 million compared to $16.4 million last year (see “Highest-Paid Athletes: Behind The Numbers”). 
  
 Tiger Woods held the top spot as the world’s highest-paid athlete for 11 of the last 12 years with only Mayweather breaking the streak in 2012. But Woods’ earnings took a hit when Electronic Arts sent him to the sidelines in 2013 when EA announced it would end its relationship with Woods and his eponymous video game after 16 versions. The series generated nearly $800 million in sales, according to NPD Group. Woods’s prize money is also down as back surgery has kept him off the course since March. Woods ranks No. 6 with earnings of $61.2 million including $55 million from endorsements, appearances and his golf course design business, which is scheduled to open the first Woods-designed course this fall in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. 
  
 This year’s list features the same trio of women as last year. Maria Sharapova leads the way at No. 34 with earnings of $24.4 million. Her earnings were impacted by Nike's sale of Cole Haan in 2013, as Sharapova received hefty royalties on her line of Cole Haan shoes when it was under the Nike umbrella. Sharapova won her second French Open title this month and fifth Grand Slam overall. Good timing for Avon Products which announced a new deal with Sharapova this week. Sharapova is joined by two fellow pros in tennis, which is the only major sport where the money for women comes within earshot of matching that of the men. 
  
 China’s Li Na ranks No. 41 at $23.6 million. She rose to a career high world ranking of No. 2 in February after winning the Australian Open the previous month for her second career Grand Slam title. The win triggered a massive bonus from sponsor Nike, as well as her other endorsement partners. Li also shills for Babolat, Rolex, Samsung, Mercedes and multiple Chinese companies. Serena Williams ranks No. 55 with $22 million in earnings split evenly between prize money and endorsements/appearance fees. Her $56 million in career prize money is almost double her closest competition in Sharapova. 
  
 Full list: The World's Highest-Paid Athletes ||||| Photo: John Locher/AP/Corbis 
  
 Floyd Mayweather has made crystal clear what his Saturday prize fight against Manny Pacquiao is really about. 
  
 “Money,” he told one interviewer. “I’m not going to lie to you. Of course, everything plays a major key. I love the fans, I want to give them excitement, I love them.” But the fans aren’t the central reason for the fight? “No, the money.” The 47-and-0 boxer went on: “At the end of the day, my daughter can’t eat the zero. She can’t eat a boxing record.” 
  
 Win or lose, Mayweather stands to make an astonishing amount on Saturday — well more than $100 million for an hour or so of work. And he will do so by virtue of one of the most unusual and potentially the most lucrative financial deals in all of professional sports. 
  
 Many star athletes make the lion’s share of their money through endorsements, and virtually all get something from big-spending brands. LeBron James, for instance, made $19.3 million last year playing basketball and more than $50 million hawking products for Coca-Cola, Nike, Samsung, Dunkin’ Donuts, and Audemars Piguet watches, as tallied by Forbes. Roger Federer had $4.2 million in winnings and ten times that amount in endorsement income. But not Mayweather. In fact, he came out No. 1 in the Forbes list of the world’s top 100 earners in sports in 2014. And he was the only one not to have any endorsement income, largely owing to his horrific record of domestic abuse. 
  
 And many star boxers make the lion’s share of their money through fight fees guaranteed by promoters, which can include a slice of any pay-per-view revenue. Again, not Mayweather. Instead, he acts as his own promoter, staging his own fights and collecting gobs of money at the back-end. “It’s never been done,” he told the New York Times about his financial setup back in 2011. “Not in entertainment history. Not in sports history. You see that arena Saturday? It’s all Mayweather money. Want a hot dog? Mayweather money. Want a T-shirt? Mayweather money. I need all that.” 
  
 In some sense, then, Mayweather looks less like a top-earning athlete than he does like a top-earning touring musician — especially if you think of the pay-per-view watchers as being ticket holders. He stages his own shows and then takes a fat cut of the revenue from those shows. He makes money the way that Phish and the Dave Matthews Band make money, more so than the way that Serena Williams and David Beckham make money. (As Tim Smith points out, this could have something to do with the fact that one of Mayweather’s advisors used to work in music promotions.) 
  
 And this time around, there’s going to be a lot of Mayweather money to make. The fight is expected to generate around $300 million in pay-per-view revenue alone, about two thirds of which will go to Mayweather and Pacquiao. On top of that, there will be revenue from fight sponsorships, like the $5.6 million Tecate paid to get its logo emblazoned on the floor of the ring; various additional television rights; revenue from tickets and merchandise; and on and on. It’s a freakishly lucrative setup for Mayweather, and one that only a true superstar with the clout to muscle himself into these kind of contracts could make. |||||
Output:
There's a reason Floyd Mayweather sits atop the Forbes list of highest-paid athletes, and tomorrow night's pay-per-view fight against Manny Pacquiao provides a good example of it. The AP estimates that Mayweather will take home $180 million for one night's work, while Pacquiao's team can expect $120 million. Mayweather, whose history of domestic violence makes endorsements all but impossible, gets the bigger payday in part because of the unprecedented financial enterprise he's set up in which he acts as his own promoter, writes Annie Lowrey at New York. (The piece is headlined "Floyd Mayweather's Financial Genius.") "In some sense, then, Mayweather looks less like a top-earning athlete than he does like a top-earning touring musician—especially if you think of the pay-per-view watchers as being ticket holders," writes Lowrey. "He stages his own shows and then takes a fat cut of the revenue from those shows." In the Philippines, meanwhile, an official at an electric company is pleading with people to turn off major appliances during the fight so residents will have enough juice to watch native son Pacquiao fight for the welterweight title, reports AP.