Who’re the highest-paid boxers in historical past?

Boxing legend Floyd Mayweather is reportedly the very best earner amongst boxers in historical past with an estimated whole earnings of 1.33 billion euros.

These figures correspond to the overall earnings of his profession, making an allowance for inflation however with out counting taxes or different bills.

In line with a Sportico research, the checklist of the fifty sportsmen with the very best earnings from salaries, sponsorships or investments in corporations associated to their exercise, is headed by basketball legend Michael Jordan (3.1 billion euros).

Boxing is the third most represented sport within the checklist, one which incorporates seven boxers. There are additionally 13 basketball gamers and eight golfers.

Mayweather sits in eighth place above Mike Tyson, who’s in sixteenth with 825 million euros of earnings, adopted by Manny Pacquiao (685m euros), George Foreman (640m), Oscar de la Hoya (630m), Evander Holyfield (565m) and the one energetic boxer on the checklist, Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez (495m).

Aside from Foreman, the opposite six have starred within the fights with the very best PPV gross sales in historical past, with Mayweather because the frequent denominator within the first three, towards Pacquiao, De la Hoya and Canelo.

It also needs to be famous that three of them are heavyweights from one other extra good period, when Foreman, Tyson and Holyfield stood out within the class.