ESPN The Magazine put together their annual list of the world's highest paid athletes and Mayweather, Pacquiao blew away the competition by a significant margin.

Mayweather won a twelve round unanimous decision and is anticipated to return to action in September. Pacquiao, who had should surgery two weeks, is not going to return to the ring until 2016.

Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao made a fortune from their May 2nd welterweight mega-fight. The event called "Fight of The Decade" sold 4.4 million pay-per-views, which crushed the existing 2.48 million record. Between all of the revenue streams, the card is going to bring in $500 million dollars.

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[QUOTE=bopbopbbe;15711243]You're an idiot. At least use the right numbers if you want to start acting like you know anything. The TV rights were 60/40 this was established. 60% of the 500mil is 300mil. Mannys 40% of that is 120mil for…

[QUOTE=Pu·gi·list;15714586]Man it must be awesome to be a professional football player like Ronaldo/Rooney, NBA player or MLB player. All that money to play an enjoyable sport and living the dream.[/QUOTE] Yes and no cause once you adapt to a live…

Man it must be awesome to be a professional football player like Ronaldo/Rooney, NBA player or MLB player. All that money to play an enjoyable sport and living the dream.

[QUOTE=Ryannn;15711339]Pacquiao should have taken the 40 million doe. "Who the f*ck refuses a 40 million dollar drug test?"[/QUOTE] Floyd is an idiot for waiting to get more for schooling Manny. 250 Million! what an idiot:pat:

[QUOTE=TMNTForever;15711756]What an idiot he should have taken the 50/50 back when only an average of 2 million homes would have purchased a 49.99 ppv[/QUOTE] Is this your way of admitting he ducked the fight back then?