Floyd “Money” Mayweather isn’t just the highest-paid athlete in the world. According to Forbes magazine, the undefeated, former five-division world champion is also the highest-paid celebrity in the world for 2017.
Mayweather, (50-0, 27 KOs), came in far ahead of actor George Clooney, who finished second in this annual list of rich celebs. Floyd’s pre-tax total for the past year was a whopping $285 million dollars, nearly $50 million more than Clooney, who earned a meager $239 million.
Nearly all of Mayweather’s earnings were made in a half-hour of work, when he stopped MMA great Conor McGregor in the tenth round of their showdown last August at the MGM’s T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Coming in this third was television star Kylie Jenner, who made an estimated $166.5 million.
Only two other athletes made the top-10. Check out the full list here:
1 Floyd Mayweather $285 mil
2 George Clooney $239 mil
3 Kylie Jenner $166.5 mil
4 Judy Sheindlin $147 mil
5 Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson $124 mil
6 U2 $118 mil
7 Coldplay $115 mil
8 Lionel Messi $111 mil
9 Ed Sheeran $110 mil
10 Cristiano Ronaldo $108 mil