Forbes released its latest ranking of the Top 100 paid athletes (from June 2017 to June 2018) in the world on Tuesday. Five-division boxing world champion, Floyd Mayweather ranked No.1 with 285 million US dollars.

Lionel Messi (111 million US dollars) and Cristiano Ronaldo (108 million US dollars) are at No. 2 and No. 3 respectively. Interestingly, UFC superstar Conor McGregor, who lost to Mayweather in "The Money Fight" on August 26, 2017, grabbed No. 4 position. McGregor made 99 million US dollars in the past year.

Brazilian star football player Neymar ranked No. 5 with 90 million US dollars as the third football player who moved into Top10. As for basketball, NBA's LeBron James (85.5 million US dollars) and Stephen Curry (76,9 million US dollars) ranked No. 6 and No. 8 respectively. Twenty-time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer was the only tennis player listed in the ranking at No. 7 with 77.2 million US dollars. At No. 9 and No.10 were Matt Ryan (67.3 million) and Matthew Stafford (59.5 million) from NFL.

Though Mayweather has already retired, he is still one of the best money-making athletes on earth. In May, he released his assets on social media with a caricature of him, Michael Jordan and Eldrick Tiger Woods accompanied with "Floyd Mayweather 50-0! Hate it or love it... he now joins Michael Jordan in career earning over 1 Billion Dollars".

The 100 athletes on the list came from 11 sport categories and 22 countries. Sixty-six of them were from the US. Basketball contributed the biggest number of 40 people. No female athlete or Chinese athlete has made it onto the list.