{"id":302,"date":"2021-09-14T20:52:31","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T15:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=148664"},"modified":"2021-09-14T20:52:31","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T15:22:31","slug":"list-of-richest-sports-personalities-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/other-sports\/list-of-richest-sports-personalities-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"List of richest sports personalities in the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CONOR MCGREGOR<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Conor Anthony McGregor born on July 14, 1988, in Ireland is a big name in Mixed Martial Arts at UFC. He discovered his love for football and boxing at a very young age and decided to take it as a carrier option. With a Net worth of <strong>$200 million<\/strong>, he is the most popular and celebrated fighter in the history of UFC. He claimed a fight of the title match and grabbed the victory in just 13 seconds and made his name in Golden letters in the stories of UFC. The most-watched match is also between Conor and Nate Diaz in UFC 229 and is the only boxer to have a two-division champion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LIONEL MESSI<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A big name in the Football industry, the captain of the Argentina Football national team has a net worth of<strong> $130 million<\/strong> as per Forbes. The 34 years old plays as a forward and was in news in recent times for leaving his club FC Barcelona and is now a part of PSG. Messi has won European Golden Shoe for the top scorer 6 times which is the highest by an individual. He has a record number of Ballon d\u2019Or that is also 6 times.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CRISTIANO RONALDO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Followed by another big star in the game Ronaldo is a Portuguese national football player who plays as a forward and captains the Portugal Football team recently was in news for getting back to his initial club Manchester United. Five times Ballon d\u2019Or winner has a net worth of<strong> $120 million<\/strong>. Recently Ronaldo set a benchmark by becoming the most followed personality on social media with 500 million followers across Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. He runs his brand by the name CR7 and has a lifetime contract with NIKE.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DAK PRESCOTT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He is an American football quarterback and represents the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League. The 2017 Rookie of the year has a net worth of <strong>$107.5 million\u00a0<\/strong>and has recently invested in four Walk-ons restaurants in Texas. He is the highest-paid athlete in the history of the NFL.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LEBRON JAMES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The American basketball professional player representing Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association. The Athlete secures fifth place as per Forbes among the highest-paid athletes with a net worth of <strong>$96.5 million<\/strong>. He has won the title of MVP in NBA four times along with the top endorsement portfolio and owns a production and media company.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sport is a thing which bound different people and different diversities to come together in support of their team and unite together and celebrate each game as a festival and some major sports personalities play a major role in the development and success of the sport and to maintain the popularity of the Game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":23442,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[2244,321,1073,487,826],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-sports","tag-conor-mcgregor","tag-cristiano-ronaldo","tag-lebron-james","tag-lionel-messi","tag-nba"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}