Manny Pacquiao Ranks 8th in Forbes’ Highest-Paid Athletes Of The Decade
The “Pinoy Pride”, Manny Pacquiao is among the athletes included in Forbes‘ list of the Highest-Paid Athletes of the Decade.
According to Forbes, Pacquiao earned at least $435 million after his 25 pay-per-view fights that generated at least 20 million buys and in revenue, an estimated $1.3 billion. Pacquiao has also appeared in Forbes’ 2015 list of highest-paid athletes, ranking number two.
Other entries in the list include golfer Tiger Woods (#6), soccer player Lionel Messi (#3), and finally, Floyd Mayweather who ranks at #1 after earning more than $500 million in his fights with Manny Pacquiao and Conor McGregor in 2015 and 2017, respectively.
In total, this decade’s top 10 collectively made $6.1 billion.
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It’s also worth noting that, while she didn’t make it to the top 10—tennis superstar Serena Williams, who is in the top 40 highest-paid athletes of the decade, is the only woman athlete to make it to the list.
Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao began his career in 1995 and since then, his illustrious career in boxing flourished. Pacquiao made history by being the only boxer first boxer ever to win world titles in eight weight divisions.
He is also the first boxer to win the lineal championship in five different weight classes and also the first to win major world titles in four of the original eight weight classes of boxing.
For his achievements, Pacquiao was named Fighter of the Decade in the 2000s by the Boxing Writers Association of America, World Boxing Council, and World Boxing Organization. He is also hailed as the best active boxer in the world, pound-for-pound, by major sports and boxing websites including ESPN, Sports Illustrated, and Yahoo! Sports.
The annual list made by Forbes was curated by looking at the salaries, prize money, bonuses, endorsements, appearance fees, and licensing income. Earnings made by athletes during their retirement years were excluded, hence, NBA superstars Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan did not make it to the list.
For more information, you may visit Forbes’ official website.
Source: Forbes.com
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