McGregor is far ahead of Messi in terms of earning performance
According to the OLBG statistics page for the 2021-2022 season, McGregor fought only five minutes in the knockout defeat to Dustin Poirier on the evening of July 10, 2021, but still pocketed $ 33 million. That was the only match for the Irish boxer in the 2021-2022 season, helping him earn an average of $ 6.6 million per minute of competition. McGregor became the highest earner per minute of the season, averaging nine seconds for a million dollars.
The next three high-performance athletes are all boxers, Canelo Alvarez, Tyson Fury and Jake Paul. Alvarez earned a total of $85 million over 61 minutes of play, averaging nearly $1.4 million per minute. The undefeated fighter Fury earned $60 million in 55 minutes of fighting, averaging nearly $1.1 million per minute. McGregor, Alvarez and Fury are also the only three athletes who don't need an average of a minute to make a million dollars. And Paul's monetization performance is one minute 28 seconds for a million dollars.
The best performing football player for money is Neymar with $70 million in 2,328 minutes of play last season. On average, he earns about $ 30,000 per minute, but only ranks 18th in the list of sports athletes.
Golden Ball World Cup 2022 Lionel Messi ranked 22nd on the list with an income of $ 75 million in 2,872 minutes of playing, an average of more than $ 26,000 per minute. And Cristiano Ronaldo ranked 30th with $60 million over 3,220 minutes on the pitch, averaging more than $18,000 per minute. Kylian Mbappe's performance is the fourth highest in the group of players, averaging over $7,000 per minute.
OLBG's list has 38 athletes, in which basketball dominates with 16 representatives, the most effective is scorer Klay Thompson with more than 40,000 USD per minute. In addition to the four representatives mentioned above, there is also striker Mohamed Salah in 38th place with more than 6,000 USD per minute played.
McGregor was born on July 14, 1988 in Dublin, Ireland, is the first fighter to hold two UFC belts simultaneously in two different weight classes - featherweight and lightweight. In 2021, he was chosen by Forbes as the world's best-paid athlete, with an income of $180 million.
