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The dominance of golfer Tiger Woods and boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. ultimately undermined by footballer Portugal ,Cristiano Ronaldo . In the release of an American business magazine, Ronaldo is now listed as the son of the richest athlete on earth.

According to Forbes , Ronaldo has a fortune of 88 million dollars. Meanwhile, in the second position, occupied by starsBarcelona 's Argentine Lionel Messi, who has a fortune of 81.4 million US dollars.

Forbes, calculate the total wealth of athletes in 2016 was not only based on income or payroll sebaga athlete, also involves the value of sponsorship. Ronaldo, who is surrounded by a variety of sponsors, the value of his contract with Real Madrid 28 million euros.

Throughout the last six years, Ronaldo has always outperformed Messi. Last year, the Portuguese player's third and fourth Messi. Back two years ago, Ronaldo was second, while Messi was fourth.

This achievement also become a pride for Ronaldo. The reason, he successfully dethrone Tiger Woods name and Mayweather are alternately topped the Forbes richest list since 2000. This year, Woods ranks only 12th with a fortune of 45.3 million US dollars sebesa, and Mayweather in position ke- 16 with 44.0 million dollars.

In other words, Ronaldo became the first footballer who successfully culminated the list of athletes terkayat Forbes.

NBA basketball player's club of origin Cleveland Cavaliers, LeBron James, was third with 53.25 million pounds fortune, and in the fourth position is tennis player Swiss Roger Federer with 46.78 million pounds.

While the list of 100 richest athletes that involves 10 different sports and 23 countries of origin. Dominating the US accounted for 65 athletes due to pay a very high dar three most popular sports there: baseball, basketball, and soccer.

Name	Sports	Salary + Sponsor (million dollars)
Cristiano Ronaldo (Por)	Soccer	88.0
Lionel Messi (Arg)	Soccer	81.4
LeBron James (USA)	basketball	77.2
Roger Federer (Sui)	Tennis	67.8
Kevin Durant (USA)	basketball	56.2
Novak Djokovic (Srb)	Tennis	55.8
Cam Newton (USA)	American football	53.1
Phil Mickelson (USA)	Golf	52.9
Jordan Spieth (USA)	Golf	52.8
Kobe Bryant (USA)	basketball	50.0
Lewis Hamilton (Eng)	formula 1	46.0
Tiger Woods (USA)	Golf	45.3
Eli Manning (USA)	American football	45.0
Joe Flacco (USA)	American football	44.5
Tom Brady (USA)	American football	44.1
Floyd Mayweather (USA)	Boxing	44.0
Rory McIlroy (NIrl)	Golf	42.6
Russell Wilson (USA)	American football	41.8
Sebastian Vettel (Ger)	formula 1	41.0
Philip Rivers (USA)	American football	38.0

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