Mayweather tops list for highest paid athletes

'Money' is clearly the appropriate pseudonym for Floyd Mayweather who once again tops the Forbes list for highest paid athletes. Floyd Mayweather is estimated by Forbes to have pocketed a paltry $300M within the last year to make him the landslide breadwinner amongst active athletes.

It shouldn't be a surprise that the vast majority of this money was earned during last month's Mayweather-Pacquiao fight, a fight where Floyd is now estimated to have earned a total of $240M. Add in $15M in endorsements by Burger King, Hublot, FanDuel and his purse from the second Maidana fight and, well, let's just say Floyd needs a vault the size of Scrooge McDuck's.

Mayweather's $300M year smashes previous record holder Tiger Woods who earned $115M in 2008. But Floyd wasn't the only one who made out like a bandit last month. Manny Pacquiao's purse put him at the number two spot for highest paid athletes with earnings of $160M ($125M coming from May-Pac). Here's the full list of the top 10:

1) Floyd Mayweather - $300M

2) Manny Pacquiao - $160M

3) Cristiano Ronaldo - $79.6M

4) Lionel Messi - $73.8M

5) Roger Federer - $67M

6) LeBron James - $64.8M

7) Kevin Durant - $54.1M

8) Phil Mickelson - $50.8M

9) Tiger Woods - $50.6M

10) Kobe Bryant - $49.5M