4 boxers made the highest 100 sports activities earners listing in 2025, with Jake Paul and the person dubbed the ‘new Floyd Mayweather’ making the reduce
Jake Paul loved a profitable 2025 (Picture: Getty Photos)
The world’s highest-paid boxers have been revealed and the fighter labelled ‘the brand new Floyd Mayweather’ sits comfortably above his rivals. That man is Canelo Alvarez, who raked in an astonishing £102million throughout 2025. When earnings throughout each sport are taken under consideration, solely Cristiano Ronaldo generated extra earnings, based on Sportico.
The Portugal ahead topped the general rankings after gathering a outstanding £195m over the previous yr. Whereas Alvarez completed second on the listing, boxing had restricted illustration, with solely three different fighters cracking the highest 100: Terence Crawford, Naoya Inoue and Jake Paul. Crawford leads that group at No. 21, incomes roughly £49m in 2025 – largely because of his headline-grabbing win in opposition to Alvarez of their September conflict. Inoue seems subsequent at No. 25 with £46m and Paul follows intently at No. 30 after taking house just below £45m.
Alvarez, whose first skilled loss got here in opposition to Mayweather again in 2013, later assumed the American’s standing as the largest title in boxing outdoors the heavyweight ranks. At 35, the Mexican celebrity has captured world titles in 4 divisions – starting from light-middleweight to light-heavyweight – and is usually considered as one of many high pound-for-pound abilities of his period.
Though his defeat to Crawford gave his legacy one thing of successful, the identical cannot be mentioned for his checking account. Alvarez not too long ago agreed to an attention grabbing four-fight contract with Saudi boxing figurehead Turki Alalshikh, a deal mentioned to be value round £240m.
Inoue additionally landed a profitable settlement with Alalshikh and boxed 4 occasions in 2025. The Japanese bantamweight remains to be unbeaten, holding an immaculate 32-0 document, with 27 victories coming through knockout.
Web sensation Paul, in the meantime, fought twice final yr. He earned a factors win over Julio Cesar Chavez Jr in June, earlier than being stopped by Anthony Joshua in December. His six-round defeat to AJ attracted greater than 33million viewers and accounted for the majority of his yearly earnings.
Behind Ronaldo and Alvarez, Lionel Messi sits third on the earnings desk after pulling in £97m in 2025. He’s adopted by baseball star Juan Soto (£96.5m) and NBA nice LeBron James (£96m) to finish the highest 5.
Cristiano Ronaldo tops the earnings listing on £195m (Picture: Yasser Bakhsh/Getty Photos)
Ex-Actual Madrid ahead Karim Benzema comes subsequent on £86m, forward of NBA icon Steph Curry (£78.6m), baseball phenomenon Shohei Ohtani (£76.4m) and NBA standout Kevin Durant (£75.1m). LIV Golf ace Jon Rahm rounds out the highest 10 with £75m in earnings.
Excessive-profile names akin to Lewis Hamilton, Rory McIlroy, Kylian Mbappe and Erling Haaland narrowly missed out on the highest 10, together with Max Verstappen, Scottie Scheffler and Patrick Mahomes.
Six British athletes featured total, with Hamilton main the group on £74m. McIlroy follows with £68m, whereas newly topped Components 1 world champion Lando Norris earned £44m. Footballers Harry Kane and Jude Bellingham additionally made the listing with £32m and £29m respectively. Finishing the British contingent is NBA participant Ogugua ‘OG’ Anunoby, who banked £28m throughout the yr.
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