It takes Conor McGregor just seven seconds to earn €1 million, making him the fastest earning athlete in the world, according to new data.
Sports betting community platform OLBG has looked at the highest-paid athletes, analysing the total time spent in the ring or on the field with their wage earnings to reveal the fastest earning athletes in the world today.
And after studying their earnings compared this with how many minutes they spent on the field or court, or in the ring, the Dublin born fighter has come out on top - earning €7,712,865.23 for every minute he spends in the octagon.
Mexican professional boxer Canelo Álvarez followed behind in second place, taking 2 minutes and 15 seconds to earn one million, and earning €394,075.34 per minute in the ring.
American Football player Dak Prescott is in third place, taking 3 minutes and 5 seconds to earn €1 million, earning €288,209.55 for every minute on the field.
The study took the on-field earnings of the 100 highest-earning athletes in the world according to Forbes’ 2021 list of Highest-Paid Athletes, choosing to focus just on those athletes from the worlds of American football, basketball, association football, boxing, and MMA.
The main findings showed that boxing and MMA were found to be the highest paying sports, with the athletes earning the highest amounts in the shortest period of time.
The top fighters were revealed to have been paid a total of €47.9m for only 75 minutes of fighting.
But even though Boxing and MMA had the highest earnings per minute, American Football was the sport discovered to have the highest on-field earnings of €667 million.
The US sport has the biggest on-field earners in world sport with eight of the 10 highest sports earners being American Football players with Prescott emerging as the top with €81.2m on the field earnings.
Neymar was found to be the football player earning the highest amount of money on the field the fastest, taking just over 30 minutes to earn €1 million, followed closely by Messi and Ronaldo who also need less than an hour to make a million (43 minutes and 53 minutes respectively).
The 10 highest earning on-field athletes all take less than 25 minutes to make €1 million.
