Floyd Mayweather Tops Forbes List Of Highest Paid Celebs

Boxer Floyd Mayweather tops Forbes top 100 list, earning $285 million.

Mayweather didn’t make the 2017 list, but this years fight vs. Connor McGregor brought in over $550 million and launched him over the top.

The Rock also made the top 10, coming in at number five by with a total of $124 million. Some of your other faves who made the list include athletes LeBron James, Steph Curry, Jay-Z, Beyonce, and Kevin Hart.

The world’s 100 top-earning entertainers made a combined $6.3 billion pretax over that past year, which is up 22 percent from last year.

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