Here\u2019s are the Top 10 highest-paid athletes of 2025 (salary plus endorsements):<\/p>\n
1. Cristiano Ronaldo (soccer) $260M
2. Canelo Alvarez (boxing) $137M
3. Lionel Messi (soccer) $130M
4. Juan Soto (baseball) $129.2M
5. LeBron James (basketball) $128.7M
6. Karim Benzema (soccer) $115M
7. Stephen Curry (basketball) $105.4M
8. Shohei Ohtani (baseball) $102.5M
9. Kevin Durant (basketball) $100.8M
10. Jon Rahm (golf) $100.7M<\/p>\n
See the complete Top 100 highest-paid athletes here<\/a>.<\/p>\n The last time a UFC fighter made the cut was 2022 when former lightweight champion Conor McGregor bagged $32 million in salary and another $20 million from endorsements to land at No. 22 with $52 million. But with McGregor on the sidelines since 2021<\/a>, no other UFC fighter has been able to replace his star power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s are the Top 10 highest-paid athletes of 2025 (salary plus endorsements): 1. Cristiano Ronaldo (soccer) $260M2. Canelo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396,102447],"class_list":{"0":"post-423517","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc-news","15":"tag-ufc-payouts"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}