{"id":3816,"date":"2015-07-10T18:27:39","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T18:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=3816"},"modified":"2015-07-10T18:27:39","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T18:27:39","slug":"mayweather-jr-and-pacquiao-are-highest-paid-athletes-of-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=3816","title":{"rendered":"Mayweather Jr. and  Pacquiao are highest paid athletes of year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao each made more money in one night last May 2 than any other athlete in the world over an entire year.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Mayweather is the top-grossing sports figure by far, pulling in a record $300 million in winnings and endorsements. He received a 60% cut of the roughly $400 million he and Pacquiao received for their May 2 mega fight, as well as another huge payout from his September bout with Marcos Maidana and a handful of endorsements.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> year in a row and the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> time in four years that Mayweather has led the list.<\/p>\n<p>Pacquiao jumps from No. 11 in 2014 to No. 2 this year with $160 million in total earnings, thanks mainly to the Mayweather fight but also counting his<\/p>\n<p>November bout with Chris Algieri and a bunch of endorsements.<\/p>\n<p>International soccer stars Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi are next on the list with $79.6 million and $73.8 million, respectively, and tennis superstar Roger Federer rounds out the top five with $67 million.<\/p>\n<p>LeBron James is the highest grossing NBA star, coming in at No. 6 overall with $64.8 million ($44 million of that comes from endorsements). Kevin Durant (No. 7, $54.1 million) and Kobe Bryant (No. 10, $49.5 million) also made the top 10.<\/p>\n<p>American golfers Phil Mickelson (No. 8, $50.8 million) and Tiger Woods (No. 9, $50.6 million) made almost all of their money through endorsements. Mickelson earned just $2.8 million on the tour last year; Woods a mere $600,000.\u00a0 <strong>(Forbes Magazine) <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao each made more money in one night last May 2 than any other athlete in the world over an entire year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}