Watching the game of your favorite football or basketball team, have you thought about how much this or that player earns? In order to bring you up to date, the editorial staff Hotshowlife has prepared a list of the highest paid athletes of the XXI century.
Viswanathan Anand - chess ($ 1.5 million)
Viswanathan Anand
The 15th world champion Viswanathan Anand was familiar with chess from the age of 6. He quickly became the champion among all chess players in India. He achieved the title of speed chess champion several times. He managed to break through to the world level only by the age of 30, after which a victory at one of the world championships brought him the highest fee to date - $ 1.5 million.
Tiger Woods - golf ($ 4.4 million)
Tiger woods
It would seem that this American golf is unremarkable. Who's watching it anyway? Although things are not going well for Tiger now, he still earns enough. Well, he lost several sponsors because of the press, well, they will pay a couple of million less, so what now? Throughout his career, Tiger has earned about $ 1.3 billion, and is rightfully considered the richest athlete in the world. Since most of his income comes from sponsorship payments, and not fees - Tiger does not occupy the highest bar of our top with a fee of $ 4.4 million.
Roger Federer - tennis ($ 7.7 million)
Roger Federer
The most interesting thing is that as a child, Roger was never interested in tennis, he was more attracted to such sport games like soccer, basketball and golf. Roger Federer for a long time continuously held the status of the first racket of the world, 17 times became the winner in the tournament " Grand slam", According to the Forbes magazine it is ranked 7th in the ranking of the highest paid athletes, and his highest fee was $ 7.7 million. However, uncontrollable emotional outbursts slow down Roger's career development.
LeBron James - basketball ($ 13 million)
Lebron james
LeBron Raymond James is a professional basketball player. He took part in All Stars 11 times, twice became the most productive player in the history of his team. He also twice managed to become the most valuable player in the regular season, twice won the NBA champion title. At 30, his highest honorarium is $ 13 million.
Alexander Ovechkin - hockey ($ 17 million)
Mikhail Ovechkin
Mikhail Ovechkin began his career with Dynamo Moscow. Then, at 17, he became the most young player Russian national team in history. In 2008 he signed record contract with Washington Capitals for 13 years - $ 124 million. He has already won numerous awards, and his salary to date is about $ 17 million per season.
Carlos Dunlap - American football ($ 18.7 million)
Carlos Dunlap
Carlos Dunlap is the deadly machine of American football. This athlete is the epitome of a protective umbrella for his team. For his professional qualities, Carlos was not offended not only with sponsorship money, but also with a fee - $ 18.7 million per season.
Usain Bolt - athletics ($ 23 million)
Usain Bolt
The Jamaican athlete received the famous nickname "Lightning" for his high running speed. Six times became Olympic champion, 11 times world champion. Set 8 world records and is the first person in history to win 11 gold medals at the world championships. Usain's largest fee was $ 23 million.
Cristiano Ronaldo - soccer ($ 30 million)
Football in the CIS countries is the most popular view sports. Cristiano Ronaldo, a footballer with five Ballon d'Or awards, scores at least 60 goals each year for his football club... Thanks to a multi-million audience subscribed to his social media pages, Ronaldo holds the bar for one of the most famous footballers the world. Cristiano's income exceeded $ 79.6 million only for Last year, the largest fee turned out to be the amount of $ 20.5 million, and the footballer assured everyone who was rooting for him that he was not going to slow down in any case.
Michael Schumacher - circuit racing ($ 36 million)
Michael Schumacher
Who does not know this famous racer? Schumacher's career began back in 1984, when, at the age of 14, he received a driver's license and began to compete. Throughout his life, his career as a racing car driver brought him many dangers, there were ups and downs, but during all this time he earned about $ 800 million. Michael's highest fee for a Formula 1 season was $ 36 million. As we know, in 2013 a tragedy occurred in France. Michael and his son went for a drive in the mountains, Schumacher Sr. deviated from the track, stumbled and fell, and hit his head when falling. Now the racer is being rehabilitated at his mansion in Switzerland. We wish the famous racer a speedy recovery!
Floyd Mayweather - boxing ($ 85 million)
Floyd Mayweather
The record holder among all athletes, who was even symbolically nicknamed "Money". Floyd Mayweather - undefeated professional boxer who played welterweight weight category... Floyd only has a few boxing fights a year, but his fee for being in the ring for less than one hour is $ 85 million. You will also have to believe that this is his non-main income. Floyd is very flexible and hardworking. That is why he dismissed his manager and organized his own company, Mayweather Promotions, where he is engaged in self-promotion and promotion. Contracts with brands, distribution of tickets, sale of broadcasting rights to TV channels - all this brings him a lot of money. But the boxer's temper is really hot, in June 2015 he beat ex-girlfriend, for which he thundered into prison for 3 months.
Tuesday at North American media there was information that what a baseball player Giancarlo Stanton to sign record-breaking record with Miami for world sports the contract. The amount of the agreement, which will be calculated for 13 years, will amount to $ 325 million. In this regard "SE" counted the most impressive numbers contracts from other sports: baseball, boxing, motorsport, football, basketball, American football, hockey, golf and tennis.
Baseball
Miguel CABRERA - $ 292 million
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MLB first / third baseman " Detroit Tigers" Miguel Cabrera has extended the agreement with his club until 2023. total amount 10-year contract signed in March this year, made up record for world sports $ 292 million. Two last seasons Venezuelan baseball player voted the league's most valuable player (2012, 2013) and total Played 9 times in All-Star Game.
Boxing
Floyd Mayweather - $ 180 million
Ranking leader best boxers world 37-year-old American Floyd Mayweather in February 2013 signed a contract with CBS, which is the owner of the Showtime television channel (from the very beginning of his career he spoke on HBO). By terms of the agreement (the largest ever for athletes individual species sports) within 30 months Meiuezer maybe conduct six battles. Eth total income in this case will be up to $ 250 million.
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The first battle under the signed agreement took place on May 4 of the same year. The rival of the American, who had previously served a prison sentence for domestic violence, was interim WBC welterweight world champion Robert Guerrero. Mayweather's minimum pay for a fight was $ 32 million, while his opponent's was $ 3 million. This was followed by three more fights: with the Mexican Saul Alvarez and two meetings with Marcos Maidana.
In November 2014 the business magazine Forbes admitl Mayweather highest paid athlete the world... According to the publication, over the past 12 months, boxinger earned 105 mmillion dollars.
"Formula 1"
Kimi RAIKKONEN - $ 153 million
Finnish pilot's income in "Royal races" constantly growing - if in 2001 he started in "Sauber" and received kind of debutant minimum, then after moving to McLaren in 2004 he was already earning about $ 10 million and more. Italian stable offered him fantastic conditions - $ 51 million (the agreement was calculated for the seasons 2007-2009)! This amount, however, did not take into account all kinds of tax, contract and other deductions, after which it decreased by almost half, but it was still impressive.
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In September 2013 it was announced the signing of a two-year contract between Ferrari and Kimi Raikkonen. So the f inn returned to the Italian stable after a four-year absence and became teammate Fernando Alonso, replacing Felipe Massa. The new contract numbers turned out to be more modest - 22 million euros per season.
Football
Gareth BALE - $ 146.2 million
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The salary of the Welsh midfielder, Real Madrid, whose "Royal club" acquired in the summer of 2013 for 94 million euros - 300 thousand pounds per week. According to this indicator, he is somewhat inferior to his partner in the Madrid club Cristiano Ronaldo and the leader of Barcelona Lionel Messi, however, their contracts are calculated until the summer of 2018, while the Bale agreement ends a year later. In many ways, it is this circumstance that makes Bale the most dear footballer the world.
Basketball
Kobe BRYANT - $ 136 million
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In the summer of 2004, atthe same day after center Shaquille O "Neil leftl Lakers, another team leader, defender Kobe Bryant, have signed a new 7-year contract with the Californians for a record amount in league history - 136.4 million dollars. Shaq's departure greatly facilitated the team's payroll and created exceptional financial conditions for an attacking defender. Bryant did not remain in debt and repaid the generosity of owner Jerry Bass with two champion rings, MVP league title (2008) and two titles MVP Association finals (2009, 2010).
American football
Calvin Johnson - $ 132 million
Best NFL Host Calvin Johnson and Detroit Lion Club with "in March 2012 agreed on the terms of a new contract... "Megatron" (nickname of a black football player) remains in the City of Motors for eight years(until 2019) ... During this time, he will earn 132 million dollars, 60 of which are guaranteed to Kelvin.
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29 year old Johnson was chosen Detroit in the 2007 draft ode under the general second number.
Hockey
Alexander Ovechkin - $ 124 million, or 5.8 billion rubles
In January 2008, Washington Capitals striker Alexander Ovechkin with oglapopped terms of a new personal contract with NHL club, calculatedth for 13 years. During this time Ovechkin will work total 124 million dollars (or 5.8 billion rubles at the exchange rate of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation as of November 19). The agreement is not a record for either duration or average salary, but a forward from Russia became the first hockey player in the history of the league to deal worth over $ 100 million.
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Over the years of his performance in “Washington,” Ovechkin has amassed an impressive collection of personal awards (three Hart Trophy, Art Ross Trophy, nine hits in all-star matches and much more), but so far he was left without a team title.
In the 2014/15 season, Ovechkin earns $ 9.5 million (446 million rubles).
Golf
Tiger WOODS ($ 110 million)
Tennis
Roger FEDERER ($ 86 million)
Woods and Federer, unlike his colleagues from other sports, does not have NS tons of a big contract in their sport (this is the specificity golf and tennis), but it would be unfair to ignore these two outstanding athletes.
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Woods back in September 2012 became the first in the history of the PGA tour, which managed to earn more than 100 million dollars prize money. The golfer finished third in the Deutsche Bank Championship, which earned him another $ 544,000. One of the most titled athletes in golf history during his career won 14 victories at the Majors, major tournaments in this sport.
Federer, in turn, belongs to the first place in the list the richest ball and racket players of all times: 82 tournament wins ATP v singles(plus 8 in doubles) brought him over $ 86 million. The most significant successes of the Swiss - 4 titles on Australian Open, 1 - at Roland Garros, 7 at Wimbledon and 5 at US Open.
Professional sports involve huge financial investments. Almost all team games include bets, sponsorship investments, and the costs of organizing events. The turnover of money in some individual disciplines is also striking in its volume and intensity. Athletic competitions are regularly held in which best athletes receive huge fees. There are a lot of such disciplines. New types and classes of competitions appear every day. We propose to consider the most expensive species sports at the moment.
10 most expensive sports
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It is unlikely that anyone will be surprised to see hockey in the ranking of expensive sports. A very entertaining discipline requires extraordinary training of every member of the team game. Every year top clubs receive huge investments to develop their potential. This applies to coaches, players and club owners. To date, there are two leaders in the championships, which are Russian Federation and Canada. So, the amount of the contract of some of the national team players exceeds the $ 15 million mark. Clubs are worth up to $ 1.2 billion.
7th in the ranking of the most expensive sports goes to boxing. What is it worth the last battle between boxer and representative mixed martial arts... In 2017, Mayweather was able to top up a bank account with more than $ 500 million. As a rule, sponsors receive up to $ 400 million from such events. Huge amounts of money revolve around the rates. Whole funds are becoming major players in the world of the financial market. And every year the cost of boxers' salaries is growing rapidly. It is unlikely that once Pacquiao could have imagined that today the price of his fight would be close to $ 100 million.
A game of aristocrats! It is difficult to say with certainty how much Tiger Woods managed to earn in this expensive sport. His annual income is approximately $ 50 million. At the same time, top athletes can earn not only from performances, but also through shows. It is about a fairly young sport, which is also a business. To join the President's Club of America, each athlete must contribute $ 350,000. At the same time, celebrities are regularly added to the number of amateurs. Interest in the game is growing rapidly!
This is no longer just a game in which ordinary athletes compete. We are talking about a large business that has its pitfalls. Players are exchanged regularly. Clubs buy out other athletes for exorbitant fees. Important role sponsorship plays a role in the development of clubs. The best Spanish clubs manage to earn about 600 million euros per year. The contracts of footballers such as Lionel Messi are valued at 70 million euros. It is difficult to say what the limits are in terms of money turnover. Every day the price of the players only increases. New stars appear ...
We are talking about 9 types of expensive sports, depending on the type of aircraft. Speaking of the technical component, aviation sports can be compared with Formula 1. Accordingly, the costs leave much to be desired. The device itself and the fuel are expensive. Large sums of money are needed for organizing events, laying a route. A lot of sponsors have to deal with insurance and other expenses that are sure to pay off in tournaments and championships.
Many will be surprised, but equestrian competitions are one of the most expensive sports. Some thoroughbred horses range in price from $ 500,000 to several million dollars. In 1983, a horse named Sharif Dancer was valued at $ 40 million. It was bought as part of an auction. Based on the data presented, we can conclude that some horses are priced significantly more expensive than top sports cars. Imagine how much money you need to prepare them for the competition, food, etc.