Beckham, Cristiano Ronaldo, Michael Jordan or Mayweather: who is the richest athlete in history

Undoubtedly one of the most controversial issues is knowing who are the richest athletes in the history of sports, so once again Forbes magazine publishes the ranking of the ten richest athletes in history. In first place, the richest athlete in history is the basketball legend, the majesty as Michael Jordan is known, with about 1.9 billion dollars. To the surprise of many, the golfer Tiger Woods is next on the list, with 1.7 billion.

In third place again to the surprise of many, is Arnold Palmer, the late golfer who came to collect up to 1.4 billion dollars. The fourth richest athlete is again a golfer, Jack Nicklaus with 1.2 billion. The fifth position is for the former Formula 1 driver, the German Michael Schumacher, who managed to have 1,000 million dollars, above the North American boxer is Floyd Mayweather, who was the highest paid athlete of the last decade accumulating around 915 million.

The seventh place goes to another golf player, Phil Mickelson with $ 815 million. In the eighth place we find Cristiano Ronaldo, who is the richest football player accumulating about 800 million dollars. Kobe Bryant is in ninth position at the same level as Cristiano with about 800 million and finally David Beckham completes the list of the richest athletes in history.