Manny Pacquiao On Top 10 Of Forbes Richest Athletes List
MANNY PACQUIAO – The fighting Senator, Manny Pacquiao is on the top 10 of Forbes Richest Athletes of the Decade list.
According to Forbes, Pacquiao‘s whopping 25 pay-per-views fights have made 20 million buys and an estimated $1.3 billion in revenue getting him the 8th place in the list. This led to the athlete generating $435 million (P22 Billion) in personal earnings.
With this amount of cash in his pockets, Pacquiao joined the ranks of sports legends like Tiger Woods and NBA superstar, LeBron James. The fighting Senator holds his spot between Kevin Durant and golfer Phil Mickelson.
Based on an article from Philstar, Pacquiao started out the early 2010s by asserting his dominance over Joshua Clottey, getting $35.3 million in pay-per-view buys and $6.3 million ticket sales.
In the span of his career, Manny “Pac-Man” Pacquiao has won 62 fights including 39 knockouts, lost 7 matches and had two draws. With his record, the fighting Senator has been dubbed one of the greatest of all time.
Also at the top of the Forbes list was a fellow boxer, Floyd Mayweather. He earned more than $500 million combined for his 2015 and 2017 fights versus Pacquiao and UFC superstar, Connor Mc Gregor respectively.
Back in 2015, Mayweather beat Pacquiao by scoring a unanimous decision. Still, talks for a rematch still hold no concrete conclusion.
In addition to this, Pacquiao’s SALN reflected a net worth of P2.9 billion. Also, in a 2015 list published by Forbes, the boxer held the second spot as the highest-paid athlete in the world.
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