{"id":3866,"date":"2017-12-29T15:44:24","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T10:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.smartworld.asia\/?p=3866"},"modified":"2018-02-03T00:29:38","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T18:59:38","slug":"highest-paid-athlete-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/highest-paid-athlete-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The Top Athletes in the world with highly Pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong>The highest paid athlete in the world:\u00a0<\/strong>Forbes has released their 2017 list of the top athletes in the world, and the athletes earning top-dollar come from across the spectrum.<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3872\" src=\"https:\/\/sports.smartworld.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/top-ten-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"Highest paid athlete in the world | Highest Paid Athlete | Athletes World Wide\" width=\"762\" height=\"495\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/top-ten-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/top-ten-768x500.jpg 768w, https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/top-ten-696x453.jpg 696w, https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/top-ten-645x420.jpg 645w, https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/top-ten.jpg 1003w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 762px) 100vw, 762px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are eight NBA players, four golfers, four soccer players, three race car drivers, two NFL players, two tennis players, a fighter and a runner.<\/p>\n<p>Also, only one cricketer made the top 100 list of Forbes&#8217; highest-paid athletes in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>And that cricketer, of course, is none other than Virat Kohli, the biggest superstar in the sport today.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the players were able to capitalize off their fame to gain even more wealth. For example, former Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning was able to earn $480 million after becoming a spokesman for Nationwide, DirecTV, Gatorade and Papa John&#8217;s, Forbes reports.<\/p>\n<p>1. <strong>Cristiano Ronaldo<\/strong>: $93 million<br \/>\nSalary\/bonuses: $58 million<br \/>\nEndorsements: $35 million<\/p>\n<p>2. <strong>LeBron James<\/strong>: $86.2 million<br \/>\nSalary\/bonuses: $31.2 million<br \/>\nEndorsements: $55 million<\/p>\n<p>3. <strong>Lionel Messi<\/strong>: $80 million<br \/>\nSalary\/bonuses: $53 million<br \/>\nEndorsements: $27 million<\/p>\n<p>4. <strong>Roger Federer<\/strong>: $64 million<br \/>\nPrize money: $6 million<br \/>\nEndorsements: $58 million<\/p>\n<p>5. <strong>Kevin Durant<\/strong>: $60.6 million<br \/>\nSalary\/bonuses: $26.6 million<br \/>\nEndorsements: $34 million<\/p>\n<p>6. <strong>Rory McIlroy<\/strong>: $50 million<br \/>\nPrize money: $16 million<br \/>\nEndorsements: $34 million<\/p>\n<p>7. <strong>Andrew Luck<\/strong>: $50 million<br \/>\nSalary\/bonuses: $47 million<br \/>\nEndorsements: $3 million<\/p>\n<p>8. <strong>Stephen Curry<\/strong>: $47.3 million<br \/>\nSalary\/bonuses: $12.3 million<br \/>\nEndorsements: $35 million<\/p>\n<p>9. <strong>James Harden<\/strong>: $46.6 million<br \/>\nSalary\/bonuses: $26.6 million<br \/>\nEndorsements: $20 million<\/p>\n<p>10. <strong>Lewis Hamilton<\/strong>: $46 million<br \/>\nSalary\/bonuses: $38 million<br \/>\nEndorsements: $8 million<\/p>\n<p>The Ronaldo vs Messi debate has divided the globe over the years. But there is no doubt about who has won the race for the richest honour consistently. The Real Madrid icon is an advertiser&#8217;s dream. The Portuguese also seems to be incapable of forgetting how to score goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The highest paid athlete in the world:\u00a0Forbes has released their 2017 list of the top athletes in the world, and the athletes earning top-dollar come from across the spectrum. There are eight NBA players, four golfers, four soccer players, three race car drivers, two NFL players, two tennis players, a fighter and a runner. Also, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5571],"class_list":["post-3866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","tag-top-paid-athlete"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}