By Suzanne: Boxing is a tough sport and the road to the top is a journey that’s hard fought, quite literally. So you’d expect boxers to be highly paid right?
Well, Floyd Mayweather Jr. was in fact Forbes’ highest earning sports star of 2014. Earning a whopping $105 million from his winnings alone. That means he earns more in one week than Barack Obama earns in one year. A salary that most of us can only dream of.
And Floyd isn’t just the world’s highest earning sports star, he’s the highest earning sports star by quite a margin. He made a staggering $25m more than the next person on the list –soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo – who supplemented his $52m salary with $28m worth of endorsements.