Floyd Mayweather Tops Forbes List of Highest-Paid Athletes

The world's highest-paid athlete is in jail. The guy in second place just lost a title fight, and the man who held the distinction for a decade is now third.

Forbes has released its list of the 100 highest paid athletes, and boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr., nicknamed "Money," is No. 1. reports FoxSports.

Mayweather, who made $85 million for two fights last year, is currently serving a three-month jail sentence in Las Vegas for domestic battery.

Boxer Manny Pacquiao is second on the magazine's list at $62 million from earnings and endorsements. Pacquiao lost his WBO welterweight title to Timothy Bradley earlier this month.

Tiger Woods, No. 1 on the list since 2001, made $59.4 million to place third.

LeBron James of the Miami Heat is fourth ($53 million). He is one of 13 basketball players on the list.

Tennis star Roger Federer is fifth at $52.7 million.

Thirty football players made the top 100, with Peyton Manning tops among them at No. 10. The Denver Broncos' new quarterback made $42.4 million during his last season with the Indianapolis Colts, even though he sat out the entire season while recovering from a neck injury.

David Beckham of the Los Angeles Galaxy was No. 8 overall and the highest ranked soccer player at $46 million.

New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez was tops among baseball players and No. 18 overall with $33 million.

Two women, both tennis players, made the list. Maria Sharapova ($27.9 million) comes in at No. 26, and Li Na ($18.4 million).

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Comment by Bad Habits on June 19, 2012 at 11:19am
May weather is a sucka puttin his hands on women he's soft as f*** and always will be as far as all the religion talk it's all prolly b******* with no proof but what a book says made by some guy who prolly lied anyways. We all have one thing in common tho we die and never come back to tell what happens.
Comment by Alex on June 19, 2012 at 10:58am
@greebruh quit that spamming, I'm saying that i don't believe in christianity, so all those symbols don't mean anything to me.
second of all that information you posted is not "proof", anyone with an internet connection can post those things online, there could be alternate meanings to those things.
but as i said, i don't believe in jesus and his miracles, so this info is BS
Comment by greebuh on June 19, 2012 at 10:52am
http://educate-yourself.org/lte/satanichandsign28aug07.shtml http://www.evilindustry.com/beatles-showing-occult-handsigns/
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=166013.0
Comment by greebuh on June 19, 2012 at 10:50am
Morons wont even look into stuff. They would rather be wrong and think they are right never giving a reason as to why they are right, just that they are. So I know people who think they know it all won't even open their eyes to see it.
Comment by greebuh on June 19, 2012 at 10:48am
http://educate-yourself.org/lte/satanichandsign28aug07.shtml
http://www.evilindustry.com/beatles-showing-occult-handsigns/
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=166013.0
Comment by 1THUG aka YOU WET THA BED!! on June 19, 2012 at 10:47am
Free money!!
Comment by st Vincent st west on June 19, 2012 at 10:41am
there gay...
Comment by Tye Lanes on June 19, 2012 at 10:27am
Hes doing too much good in the world for me to believe hes throwing devil signs and nobody has any proof that hes sold his soul unless theres an interview of him saying so but im not feelin this pic
Comment by DiorLetsGo on June 19, 2012 at 10:25am
It's just money.......It does not change who you are. The man is still abusive to women, and their is no respect in that.
Comment by Alex on June 19, 2012 at 10:18am
Lol you fools do know that this "devil sign BS" belief is built on the premise of religion, which is mostly BS, atleast 40% of the conspiracy theory of the illuminati has something to do with a specific religion, and that makes the theory uncredible seein as religion is BS and all. the illuminati theory takes one hard blow to the stomach there...(ouch)

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