Comments Thread For: McGregor Tops Canelo, Joshua on Forbes Highest Paid Athletes List

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Forbes has released their annual list for the world's highest paid athletes. For several years, Floyd Mayweather Jr. dominated the number one position with his massive purses - especially when he signed the exclusive six fight deal with Showtime and began fighting twice per year.
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[Eff Pandas]

UFC guys don't make no money doe.

[Pigeons]

UFC guys don't make no money doe.

UFC guys is plural. I see one UFC guy.

[Golden Boi 360]

Does this mean Canelo>AJ as the bigger draw?

Mexican superstar Canelo Alvarez had the highest position for a boxer at number 43, with winnings of $28.5 million - with $27 million in earnings and $1.5 in endorsements.

IBF, IBO, WBA heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua came in at number 89. He picked up $22 million, with $18.5 million in earnings and $3.5 million in endorsements.

[bigdunny1]

This is for 2016. Canelo made over 20m for the Chavez fight alone.

[aldo5408]

Wow that's crazy I Thought mcgrgor made like 3M his last fight. And damn where's the endorsement money at for boxing

[Earl-Hickey]

Does this mean Canelo>AJ as the bigger draw?

Mexican superstar Canelo Alvarez had the highest position for a boxer at number 43, with winnings of $28.5 million - with $27 million in earnings and $1.5 in endorsements.

IBF, IBO, WBA heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua came in at number 89. He picked up $22 million, with $18.5 million in earnings and $3.5 million in endorsements.

for now....

[bigdunny1]

What's crazy is canelo made more then Mcgregor in purse earnings last year and he sold 600k PPVs for khan fight and 300k for the smith fight. McGregor sold over 4m PPVs in 2016. Damn UFC fighters getting jerked. UFC is pocketing a lot of money. Boxers selling a fraction of the PPVS and making a lot more.

3/05/2016 UFC 196 McGregor vs Diaz 1,317,000
08/20/2016 UFC 202 McGregor v Diaz 2 1,650,000
11/12/2016 UFC 205 McGregor v Alvarez 1,300,000

McGregor made 27m off earnings in 2016 that means he was paid only 9m each fight that drew over 1.3m PPVs each? Canelo/Chavez Just drew 1.2m according to ESPN and canelo was paid over 20m alone for that fight. And was paid 28.5m in 2016 for 2 fights that didn't Crack 1m ppvs buys.

[bigdunny1]

for now....

Canelo made more last year and made more then joshua has in 2017 so far in his Chavez fight alone. Will make even more against GGG. If Canelo doesn't sign another fight in 2017 will clear over 50m.

[.!WAR MIKEY!.]

if canelo dumb ass spoke english he could have milked out tons of endorsements.