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The Rock â $3.5 million. While John Cena is the current star of WWE and has frequent appearances in the ring, the honor of highest paid WWE wrestler goes to The Rock, who makes roughly $3.5 million a year in addition to income from merchandise sales and PPV revenue.
Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images. Rory McIlroy is well positioned to become one of the world's highest-paid athletes for a long, long time. At age 25, he has already won three of the four major championships and has a deal with Nike rumored to be worth as much as $200 million.