{"id":2767,"date":"2021-05-14T10:15:45","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T04:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sabguru.com\/en\/?p=2767"},"modified":"2021-05-14T10:15:45","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T04:45:45","slug":"conor-mcgregor-celebrates-after-being-named-the-highest-paid-athlete-in-the-world-by-forbes-see-pics-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sabguru.com\/en\/conor-mcgregor-celebrates-after-being-named-the-highest-paid-athlete-in-the-world-by-forbes-see-pics-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor McGregor celebrates after being named the Highest-Paid Athlete in the world by Forbes : See pics here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>MMA fighter and businessman <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Connor McGregor<\/span> took home the title for this year\u2019s highest-paid athlete in the world. <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Forbes<\/span> annually released a list of Highest-Paid Athletes in the world. McGregor earned a massive $180 million payday for 2021, with the majority coming from the sale of his whiskey company.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After achieving this great feat, the MMA superstar celebrated by cutting a cake with his child. He shared the photos of the celebration on this social media accounts. A cake can be seen in the pics with a photo of him and Highest paid athlete is written over it.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Baby we did it!! Uimhir a Haon \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddea\u2764\ufe0f<br \/>\nThank you Forbes for recognizing my role as an entrepreneur!<br \/>\nIt was a dream to lead this list with so many successful athletes!<br \/>\nOnwards and upwards we go \ud83d\ude4f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DS8lb03Xi9\">pic.twitter.com\/DS8lb03Xi9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Conor McGregor (@TheNotoriousMMA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheNotoriousMMA\/status\/1392945522651041793?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 13, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Baby we did it!! Uimhir a Haon \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddea\u2764\ufe0f<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Thank you Forbes for recognizing my role as an entrepreneur!<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>It was a dream to lead this list with so many successful athletes!<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Onwards and upwards we go \ud83d\ude4f<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"-conor-mcgregor---us180-millio\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Conor McGregor \u2013 US$180 million<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This year, <strong>McGregor <\/strong>lands the winning punch, having leveraged his unmatched popularity in mixed martial arts to build a lucrative hustle outside UFC\u2019s Octagon. The brash McGregor collected a total of $180 million over the last 12 months; most of that comes from his recent sale of his majority stake in whiskey brand Proper No. Twelve to Proximo Spirits for $150 million. It\u2019s the 32-year-old\u2019s first time at No. 1 and his second appearance in the top ten (he landed at No. 4 with $99 million in 2018 after the fight against Mayweather). McGregor clearly wants to put his money to work even beyond booze. Adding in his endorsements, McGregor made $158 million outside of his fighting career over the last 12 months, becoming only the third athlete, after Roger Federer and Tiger Woods, to earn more than $70 million off the field in a single year while still actively competing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Three other superstars also surpassed $100 million in total earnings this year: soccer stars <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabguru.com\/en\/tag\/lionel-messi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lionel Messi<\/a> and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabguru.com\/en\/tag\/cristiano-ronaldo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Cristiano Ronaldo<\/a> and NFL quarterback Dak Prescott.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ten highest-paid athletes in the world took home pretax gross earnings of $1.05 billion during the past 12 months, 28% more than last year\u2019s top earners.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Here&#8217;s the list of\u00a0Highest-Paid Athletes in the world by Forbes :<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<h4>Conor McGregor, UFC: $180 million<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<h4>Barcelona&#8217;s Lionel Messi, Barcelona: $130 million<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<h4>Cristiano Ronaldo, Juventus: $120 million<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<h4>Dak Prescott, Dallas Cowboys: $107.5 million<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<h4>LeBron James, Los Angeles Lakers: $96.5 million<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<h4>Neymar, Paris Saint-Germain: $95 million<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<h4>Roger Federer, tennis: $90 million<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<h4>Lewis Hamilton, F1: $82 million<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<h4>Tom Brady, Tampa Bay Buccaneers: $76 million<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kevin Durant, Brooklyn Nets: $75 million<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MMA fighter and businessman Connor McGregor took home the title for this year\u2019s highest-paid athlete in the world. Forbes annually released a list of Highest-Paid Athletes in the world. McGregor earned a massive $180 million payday for 2021, with the majority coming from the sale of his whiskey company. After achieving this great feat, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[1291,1363,1364,1362],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Conor McGregor celebrates after being named the Highest-Paid Athlete in the world by Forbes : See pics here - Sabguru News English<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Conor McGregor was the world&#039;s highest-paid athlete over the last year, according to the annual Forbes list released on Wednesday. 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