Conor McGregor Missing! Tyson Fury Tops Global Rich List Over LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Lionel Messi

The list of the richest athletes on the planet has just been put out by Forbes. There are some surprises in it. Former undisputed boxing heavyweight champion Tyson Fury emerged the highest-paid fighter at #3 overall. But for MMA and UFC fans, the absence of former lightweight champion Conor McGregor from the list of highest-paid athletes for the calendar year has been disappointing.

It should not come as too much of a surprise, though. After all, McGregor hasn’t fought in over three years now.

Although McGregor continues to earn through real estate investments, among other business ventures like the Black Forge Inn and the Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship, his absence from active sports likely caused his exclusion from the Forbes list.

Predictably, the list is dominated by basketball and soccer athletes, with Cristiano Ronaldo securing the #1 overall spot with an estimated earning of $245 million thanks to his contract with a Saudi Arabian soccer club.

Another shocker, especially for basketball fans, was seeing Stephen Curry in the #2 position, over the likes of LeBron James and Kevin Durant. But what stunned them most was seeing NFL quarterback Dak Prescott making it into the top 5 of the list.

Prescott is nowhere near as prolific as the other athletes on the list. He’s not even the best quarterback in the NFC East at the moment. Nevertheless, his impressive contract, along with his brand endorsements, make sure he earns approximately $137 million, just ahead of Inter Miami’s Lionel Messi.

But McGregor wouldn’t be too bothered by his exclusion as he is currently nursing presidential ambitions. Unfortunately though, the former UFC champion is making a hash of it with his words and deeds.

McGregor forced to delete his tweet

McGregor seems to have lost much of the public goodwill he once enjoyed in Ireland and around the world since a court found him liable for sexually assaulting a woman last year.

He followed that by voicing anti-minority sentiments on his social media platforms and attempting to align with the American right in pursuit of a Donald Trump-style victory in Ireland.

However, he seems to have lost a lot of moral ground amongst the masses in his native country. It hasn’t helped that the former UFC champion has been rather insensitive in his opinion on the tragedies of Gaza.

The Irishman got into a war of words with Game of Thrones actor Liam Cunningham. The actor was tweeting about Israel stopping the Freedom Flotilla. In fact, Israel forced environment activist Greta Thunberg to return. Cunningham accused Israel of creating an intentional humanitarian crisis affecting Palestinians.

Conor responded to his tweet in a rather condescending manner.

“I thought you were on this boat Liamo, what happened? You forgot your goggles? You get sea sick off the gargle? Bottler.” 

Conor would have certainly thought twice about his response if he had known how savagely people were going to roast him for it.

Unbothered by McGregor’s mocking, Cunningham retorted, “Didn’t know you could read and write Conor. Thought you used your hands to tap out.”

Since dishing out that reply, his tweet got over 8k likes, and McGregor has been forced to delete his tweet.