When was the last time Forbes released its list of the world's ten highest paid athletes? Swiss tennis pro Roger Federer tops Forbes' list of highest-paid athletes with a combined income of $106.3 million. The basketball star landed in seventh place on the list with a salary of $28.9 million, making him the second highest paid athlete behind Stephen Curry ($29.5 million). Durant is the highest paid NBA player in history with an annual salary of $27.8 million, ahead of Steph Curry, LeBron James and Kevin Durant. Sources: 4, 12
None of the other athletes plays in the challenging and competitive system that makes it so difficult to compete at championships. $25 million in prize money, coupled with a salary of $27.8 million and an annual salary of $5 million, and you have the highest-earning athlete that 2020 has produced. He is one of the highest paid athletes in the world, which probably explains how he made it into the list of the world's richest people. There are some amazing athletes on this list, but when you consider how great he is compared to other top athletes like LeBron James, Steph Curry and Kevin Durant, you can't list him outside the top three. Sources: 5, 10, 12
According to Forbes, he is one of the highest paid athletes in the world, something anyone interested in sports betting knows. There are other people on this list you'd also like to meet, including other top athletes and their salaries and bonuses. This list is designed to include prize money and salary bonuses earned, and is therefore largely limited to athletes from team sports such as car racing. Other sports such as baseball, basketball, football, hockey, football, baseball or football are not considered. Sources: 0, 3, 7, 12
According to Forbes, which just released its highest-paid sports star report, the 100 biggest sports stars earned a combined $3.6 billion in 2019, according to the 2019 report. Of those, 35% of those people earn their income mostly from basketball, according to the 2019 reports. Whether they play the game or meet the crowd on the court, some of the highest-paid athletes of 2020 have managed to rake in a few million dollars. Sources: 12
In the same survey, however, only two football players earned more than $1 million, one of them a former NFL player. Sources: 9
You will be surprised to know, however, that the most popular and famous sportsman, who happens to be the best footballer, on this list is one of the richest sportsmen in the world, Lionel Messi. Messi tops the list of highest-paid athletes with a combined income of $1.5 million, more than double that of his closest rival Michael Jordan. Messi, one of the richest sportsmen in the world, is also known as the star of football, a star who always fights for the title. He is the captain of Barcelona and plays for Barcelona, but also for his country, Argentina and also for Spain. Sources: 1, 2, 3, 8
Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Carson Wentz rounds out the list of the top 10 highest-paid athletes. That name is pretty much what you'd expect, but Forbes goes into more detail that he is one of the richest sportsmen in the world, with a total income of $1.5 million. He has a plethora of advertising deals in his portfolio, with endorsements from companies such as Nike, Amazon and NRG, and he could climb further up the charts of paid athletes in the years to come. Sources: 7, 12
BILLIONS around the world admire and respect him for becoming one of the most successful athletes in the history of his sport. He was named one of the 100 Greatest NHL Players at the 2017 ceremony. I like to say that he's probably the greatest hockey player of all time - and perhaps the best player in NHL history. Sources: 1, 5
He is also the fifth richest sportsman in the world on that list and he is also one of the most successful sportsmen of all time. Over the past 20 years, Woods has been the highest-paid athlete in his sport, with a net worth of more than $1.5 billion. Sources: 7, 8
Floyd is the highest paid athlete in the world and earns over $300 million a year in boxing. Fed - Express earns much of that huge salary from incredible endorsement deals that have become a common theme among the highest paid athletes without offering anything in sport. Sources: 6, 12
How many athletes do you think will make the list of the top 10 athletes in 2020, and how many are missing? Which artists make it into the NBA's top 10 this season and which artists do you think are unlikely to be on that list and why? Sources: 10, 11
No other sport or man has ever dominated statistics like Don Bradman. No other athlete or sport has dominated a sport as much as Federer did in 2000, and that is evident from the fact that none of the athletes posted here came close to matching them. He is superhuman but no other athlete has ever dominated statistics as a player or in sport as much as Donaldson.
