The May edition of ESPN Magazine has published its annual review of Sports biggest earners and according to them the world leaders are Baseball’s Alex Rodriguez and Boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao who lead the field with earnings of $32m in the last financial year.
Many earned this money with two trips to the ring last year against Joshua Clottey and Antonio Margarito. He topped the list of sports earners without the potential Pacquiao Vs Mayweather fight that would have a guaranteed purse of over $50 million. If the two were to make the fight they would easily top the top earners list with just a single trip to the ring in 1 year.
ESPN base their figures on known annual salaries and prize money and do not take into account endoursements or bonuses so in many cases are only the starting point of what some sportsmen earn.
In the case of North American sports their figures are normally spot on because teams have to declare the basic wags of their individual players, with the team operating with wage cap parameters, and most of the football salaries are in the public domain but in some other sports the figures might be less solid although they make interesting reading nonetheless. There are some notable omissions as well with no data apparently available for athletics so Usain Bolt misses out for once.
Kobe Bryant was the top salared NBA player at $24.800,000 while Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo is apparently the world’s best paid footballer at $19.500,000. Rafael Nadal topped the Tennis prizemoney list for 2010 with $10,171,998 and Kim Clijsters headed the WTA 2010 list with $5,035,060
According to the ESPN F1 star Lewis Hamilton is Britain’s top regular salaried earner with $18,473,684 and you suspect Jenson Button wouldnt be far behind although his salary is not given. Great Britain Basketball captain Luol Deng, doing great things for the Chicago Bulls this season, weighs in with $11,355,850. Luke Donald headed the winnings list in Golf worldwide in 2010 with $5,867,601.
England’s Phil Taylor also gets an honourable mention as the top earning darts player in the world in 2010 with $1,044,000 but its amazing what you can earn a living at these days – Renato Nunes cleared a cool $1,594, 527 as the world’s best professional bull rider and a character called Joey Chestnut is alleged to have earned $218,500 in Major League Eating in North America.
One of the ESPN listings is to calculate the top earning sportsmen in over 180 separate countries and then compare that with the GDP of that country, which is a polite was of calculating which athletes from the world’s poorest countrties earn the most.
There are some eye popping results. In Togo the GDP is given at $480 while Emmanuel Adebayor’s annual salary is listed at $11,900,000; Samuel Dalembert of the Sacramento Kings in the NBA earns $12,200,000 a year comes from Hiati where the GDP is $626 but Pacquiao again tops the list earning $32,000,000 for his two fights in 2010 and coming from a nation where the GDP is $1,747
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