With $38 million, this boxer made Forbes' 1997 list of the highest-paid athletes
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The World's Highest-Paid Athletes List - Forbes  The world's 100 highest-paid athletes banked a cumulative $3.2 billion over the ... Floyd Mayweather repeats in the top spot with a record payday of $300 million.
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J! Archive - Show #3298, aired 1998-12-30  An archive of clues and players for Jeopardy! show #3298. ... With $38 million, this boxer made Forbes' 1997 list of the highest-paid athletes...
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$78 Million Haul Makes Jordan Top-paid Athlete, Forbes Says ...  Dec 1, 1997 ... Michael Jordan is the highest-paid athlete in the world, taking the top spot in the Forbes list for the fifth time in six years and displacing Mike Tyson at No. ... Jordan will earn $78.3 million in 1997, the magazine estimated, getting ... Boxer Oscar De La Hoya was third with $38 million, followed by Formula One...
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Highest Paid Athletes Lists - Forbes - Topend Sports  Analysis of the Forbes List of World's Best Paid Athletes - the annual published list of the top 10 highest paid athletes in the world ... Here are the top earners in the world of sports for each year that Forbes magazine has made such a list. ... Year, Name, Sport, earnings (USD$ million) ... 2015, Floyd Mayweather, Boxing, 300.
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JORDAN NETS JOCK CASH TITLE - NY Daily News  ... Jordan is back on top back on top of the Forbes Super 40 list of highest-paid athletes, that is. ... Monday, December 1, 1997, 12:00 AM ... He was followed by boxer Oscar de la Hoya, with $38 million. ... Jordan made more money endorsing products ($47 million) than he did slam-dunking basketballs for the Bulls ($31.
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The Highest-Paid Dead Celebrities Of 2016 - Forbes  Oct 12, 2016 ... The $750 million sale of Michael Jackson's half of the Sony/ATV music publishing catalog puts him at the top of our annual ranking of the top-earning dead celebrities. ... of $825 million ranks as the biggest annual haul ever by any celeb dead ... The cartoonist died of colon cancer 16 years ago, but lives on...
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Mark McCormack | Tennis Grandstand  300 but he could still be earning substantially more than the tenth-best ... By the time he was 23, his official winnings surpassed $10 million and at 24, the $20 million mark was eclipsed. .... into an international brand name and to maximize profits over a lifetime. .... McEnroe had both Connors and Borg and later Ivan Lendl.
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10 Highest-Earning Dead Celebrities - Parade  Oct 24, 2013 ... The top 10 highest-earning deceased celebrities are: ... The creator of Peanuts made $37 million in the last yearthe continued success of his...
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Muhammad Ali (pasha of Egypt) facts, information, pictures ...  Ali won an Olympic gold medal and later tossed it into a river because he ... 1983; Named the greatest heavyweight champion of all time, Ring Magazine ... But their prejudice against Clay blinded them to his ability. .... quit boxing long before he finally didfor the second and final timein 1981 after losing to Trevor Berbick.
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Disney's Eisner Has Top Salary at $40.1 Million - latimes  Apr 21, 1989 ... Walt Disney Chairman Michael D. Eisner, who orchestrated the ... at the top of Business Week's list of highest-paid corporate bosses, the magazine said Thursday. ... Business Week said the biggest surprise in its 39th annual survey of ... bonus for chief executive officers topped $1 million for the first time,...
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LeBron James Wants To Get Rid Of NBA Salary ... - Business Insider  Oct 8, 2014 ... What would LeBron James get paid if the NBA didn't have limits on salaries? ... and LeBron reportedly wants a healthy chunk of it to go to star players like him whose earnings potential is capped. ... In the 1997-1998 season, Jordan made $33.1 million. It's still the highest single-season NBA salary ever.
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America's Richest Sports Team Owners 2016 - Forbes  Oct 4, 2016 ... There are a record 44 sports owners on the Forbes 400 in 2016 fueled by soaring franchise values due to blockbuster TV contracts.
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J! Archive - Show #64, aired 1984-12-06  In '81, he got $12 mil. for beating welterweight Thomas Hearns ... In '65, it took Muhammad Ali less than 2 min. to beat him...
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James Agrees to Three-Year $100 Million Contract - Effingham's ...  Aug 12, 2016 ... The salary for the 2017-18 season will top $33 million, making him the highest-paid player in a single season in league history, topping the $33 million Michael Jordan earned with the Chicago Bulls in the 1997-98 season. ... An NBA Finals rematch between the Cleveland Cavaliers and ... Sports Calendar.
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Top 6 Greatest Unbeaten Boxers of All Times - TOTAL SPORTEK  Sep 15, 2015 ... Floyd Mayweather  49-0, 26 KO's (1996-). Floyd money Mayweather, started his professional career in 1996 and ... Rocky Marciano  49-0, 43 KOs  (1947-1955) ... his career with a 49-0 record and fought some of the greatest boxers in ... He won WBO World super middleweight title by defeated British...
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The Presidential Medal of Freedom | The White House  Willie Mays was a professional baseball player, spending most of his 22 ... A three-time Academy Award winner, Spielberg is widely considered one of ..... From 1997 to 2001, Albright served as the 64th United States Secretary of ..... graduated Stanford Law School third in her class and served on the Stanford Law Review.
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The NBA's Highest-Paid Players - Forbes  Nov 4, 2010 ... James and Bosh will make $14.5 million apiece in salary this season, ... This season he is the NBA's highest-paid player for the first time in his ... He will be the first NBA player to make more than $30 million since Michael...
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Tiger Woods - Wikipedia  Eldrick Tont "Tiger" Woods (born December 30, 1975) is an American professional golfer who is among the most successful golfers of all time. He has been one of the highest-paid athletes in the world for several years. Following an outstanding amateur and two-year college golf career, Woods .... In 1992, he defended his title at the U.S. Junior Amateur Championship,...
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Putting NBA salaries in perspective - The Buffalo News  Jul 3, 2016 ... Jordan was the best player on the planet and the biggest star in sports ... The Magic for the next four years will pay $18 million per season, ... And if he's worth $18 million, how much can Kevin Durant expect ... The list of players making $30 million per season will only grow longer and the salaries higher in...
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Sugar Ray Leonard - Wikipedia  Ray Charles Leonard (born May 17, 1956), best known as "Sugar" Ray Leonard, is an ... Leonard was also the first boxer to earn more than $100 million in purses, and ... the boxing program, urging the center's director, Ollie Dunlap, to form a team. ..... After the Montreal fight Durn went on a partying binge and ballooned in...
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Muhammad Ali - Wikipedia  Muhammad Ali was an American professional boxer and activist. He is widely regarded as one of the most significant and celebrated sports figures of the 20th century. From early in his career, Ali was known as an inspiring, controversial, and .... Ali said in his 1975 autobiography that shortly after his return from the Rome...