Across America, Starting with the Boxing Champion

 Chapter 494 Forbes List

After the game, Link stayed in Tokyo for four days, completed some promotional work for the boxing match, took on three commercials, and then led the team back to the United States.

The PPV of this boxing match sold 3.64 million copies worldwide, and the live broadcast sales reached 52 million US dollars.

There is also nearly US$180 million in peripheral income from tickets, hotels, advertising sponsorships, etc., setting a record for boxing event peripheral income in the past two decades and higher than the peripheral income from Tyson VS Douglas in 1990.

Link's income for this game is 75 million U.S. dollars. With several new advertising endorsements, the total income for this trip to Tokyo is about 120 million U.S. dollars.

Link has once again been called the 'money printing machine', the 'gold-eating beast' and the 'god of wealth' by the media. He is currently the highest-paid athlete in boxing and sports.

In March and April, various income ranking lists of Forbes magazine were announced one after another, and Link topped many lists.

The first is the latest ‘2011 Sports Athletes Income Ranking’ released by Forbes.

Link continues to be the annual revenue champion with revenue of US$620 million (including advertising revenue).

Ranked second is fellow competitor Floyd Mayweather, with a total annual income of $85 million.

In September last year, Mayweather defeated boxing champion Victor Ortiz and won the WBC welterweight title. He received US$40 million in income, including US$25 million in appearance fees, and the rest was advertising revenue.

The third place is Filipino boxing champion Pacquiao, who earned US$62 million last year.

Pacquiao had two boxing matches last year, against Shane Morris and Juan Marquez, both of which earned more than 20 million.

Ranked fourth is golf superstar Tiger Woods, whose income last year was US$59.4 million, nearly half less than his income in 2010. It is believed that he was affected by negative news and his commercial value was greatly reduced.

Fifth place is NBA superstar James, with $53 million.

Sixth place is tennis player Federer, $52.7 million

The seventh place is Kobe Bryant with $52.3 million.

The remaining income is less than 50 million.

According to "Forbes" statistics, the total income of athletes ranked 2 to 16 on the list is 625 million, which is exactly the same as Link's annual income. In other words, Link's income last year was equivalent to the income of 15 sports superstars. .

This data is extremely exaggerated.

However, "Forbes" also explained that the reason why Link earns so much is that 48% comes from prize money from five boxing matches and 52% comes from commercial and advertising income, including Nike, ck, Mercedes-Benz, Dior, Pacific Insurance, etc. This part It's the big head.

The second list is the income list of music singers.

Link continues to top the singer charts with $180 million.

Last year, his new album "Loveisgone" sold more than 20 million copies worldwide, and the first three albums also sold millions of copies. The royalties were divided into more than 100 million. In addition to the concert tickets at the beginning of last year, A total of 180 million.

Second place is former Beatle Paul McCartney, with annual income of $67 million.

The third place is Taylor Swift, with an annual income of 48 million US dollars. The income mainly comes from the third album "Last Kiss" and children's album royalties, as well as concert tickets.

Fourth place Jay-Z, with income of 37 million US dollars, not only records, but also commercial investments.

The fifth place is Rihanna with 29 million U.S. dollars, the sixth place is Antebellum with 20 million U.S. dollars, the seventh place is Adele with 18 million U.S. dollars, and the eighth place is Kanye West with 17 million U.S. dollars.

Link Music's singers Justin Bieber, Bruno Mars, Lana Del Rey, and Wiz Khalifa ranked 12th, 13th, 16th, and 23rd respectively with US$12 million, 11 million, 8.5 million, and 6 million US dollars. Bit.

The performances are very impressive.

The third list is 'Hollywood's Highest-Paid Actors in 2011', with Link ranking third with US$45 million.

The champion is Leonardo DiCaprio, who earned $77 million last year, followed by Johnny Depp, who earned $50 million.

In last year's list of the highest-paid actresses, Kristen Stewart ranked first with $34.5 million, becoming the youngest highest-paid actress on the Forbes list in the past 16 years.

Emma Stone ranked 8th with $11.5 million and was hailed as the ‘new generation of Hollywood sweetheart’.

Jennifer Lawrence was not famous last year. She was not well paid when filming "Silver Linings Playbook" and "The Hunger Games," ranking 28th with $4.5 million.

In addition to the above three, Link has also entered the "Celebrity Charity List", "The Most Box Office Appeal List", "The Most Cost-Effective Actor List", "Top Ten Popular Internet Events List in 2011" and other categories.

On the main list of the 2012 Forbes Global Rich List, Link ranks 232nd with a total worth of 4.5 billion. His main assets include diversified investments, entertainment, sports, etc.

The richest man in the world this year is Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, worth 69 billion U.S. dollars, followed by Bill Gates in second place with 61 billion U.S. dollars, and Buffett in third place with 44 billion U.S. dollars.

Larry Ellison ranks sixth with $36 billion.

My father-in-law ranked 401st with a net worth of US$2.9 billion.

Murdoch ranks 192nd with $5.2 billion.

The threshold for Forbes' global billionaire list is US$1 billion. There are 1,226 people on the list this year, 420 from the United States. Link is also ranked 107th on the list of the 400 richest people in the United States and second on the list of richest people under thirty years old. The first is Zuckerberg, who is only 27 years old and worth $17.5 billion.

In March, another piece of good news came. After a six-month-long investigation by the CIA, the main members of the hacker organization Swagsec were arrested, and the five people involved were sentenced to prison terms ranging from three months to five years.

In addition, according to the accounts of those involved in the case, they did not steal the sound source of Link's new album for no reason, but received a reward mission on the dark web. Someone offered a reward of 10,000 Bitcoins and hired a hacker organization to commit the crime.

It's just that the person who issued the reward is relatively secretive, and the CIA found no useful clues based on the confessions of Swagsec members.

The matter can only be left alone. —

"Could it be done by a few competitors?"

In the mountainside villa, Ivaca looked at the newspaper and guessed.

"It's all possible."

Link nodded. Maybe someone was inspired by the Beyoncé album leak incident and used this trick against him to hurt his album sales.

It's just that after some investigation by the CIA's technical staff, they couldn't trace the person who issued the bounty mission. He had no choice but to make guesses.

Based on the 'competitors' point of view, there are many people with motive for committing crimes, such as Jay-Z, Diddy, Kunas Jr., Kanye West, etc., as well as singers who released albums at the same time, and even the five major record companies. Very suspicious.

Link is the backbone of Link Music. The sales of his new album directly affect the market value and influence of Link Music. Using this method to suppress his album sales is also an effective means of competition.

In addition, Link himself is also suspected.

Last year's hacking incident had a relatively large impact. His new album was leaked and reported by global media. The hacker organization also praised Britney Spears on Twitter for the songs in the album. This is also a disguised form of promotion. Even better than his own tweets.

Therefore, no accurate speculation can be made on this matter without evidence.

In addition, due to the rampant global hacker organizations last year, they frequently created popular Internet incidents and endangered public security. Since the end of last year, various countries have strengthened their control over the media and severely cracked down on illegal hacker organizations. Many hacker organizations have been officially uncovered.

This has also made the hacker organization's actions more restrained, and it has not caused trouble again this year.

In this case, Link doesn't need to worry too much about similar incidents happening.

"Our link music is so good that many people are watching it. We should be careful when releasing albums in the future. Don't worry too much about other things."

Link said as he held Ivaca's round waist.

Ivaca nodded and brushed the golden hair hanging down by her ears, "I heard that Taylor will release a new album next week. She will be very busy and won't have time to take care of Alexander and Cynthia. How about we pick up the two little guys? Come here? We won’t be busy during this time.”

".Are you serious? Raising children is not an easy task."

"Of course I'm serious. How can I joke with you about something like this?"

Evaka rolled her eyes at him.

Link smiled softly. He originally wanted to do this, but he was worried that Ivaca had other ideas and would affect the care of the fetus, so he didn't know how to say it. Now that Ivaca has taken the initiative, he doesn't have to worry too much. .

He picked up his cell phone and called Taylor, saying that he wanted to take the two children to a villa on the mountainside to take care of them, and asked how Taylor was doing.

Taylor refused, saying that he didn't know how to take care of children and that she would be wary of him at work.

Link was helpless, he was the biological father of the children, how could he harm them.

"How about I tell Taylor."

Ivaca couldn't help laughing when she saw the helpless look on his face.

Link told Taylor that Eva wanted to talk to her, and handed the phone to Evaka.

Evaka took the phone and chatted with Taylor for a while, asking about the release of Taylor's album. She said that there is a dedicated baby room in the villa, and there are two professional medical staff who will take good care of the children. She also said that Link has been too busy recently. I want to find something for him to do.

Taylor agreed and asked him to pick up the child tomorrow.

Link felt helpless after hearing this. After falling in love, in the end he was not as good as Ivaca, his love rival. He felt that there was something wrong with Taylor's thinking.

For this reason, when he went to pick up the child from Taylor's big villa the next day, he dragged Taylor and had a hard time in the bedroom to show her some awesomeness.

Afterwards, Taylor almost cut him off with a fruit knife, but even though he didn't cut him off, he punched him several times.

After finishing, Link took Alexander, Cynthia, the children's nanny Rachel, and two servants back to the mountainside villa.

Alexander and Cynthia are over a year old. They can speak some simple sentences and stumble around. They are both pink and more delicate than porcelain dolls and look particularly cute.

With the little ones around, Link trains in the villa gym every day. After training, he plays with Alexander and Cynthia, teaching them to walk, talk, swim, draw, and play the piano.

He also specially ordered two pairs of small boxing gloves to teach the two little guys how to box.

But before he could start teaching, he was severely stopped by Taylor who came to see the children. Taylor warned him that if he dared to teach the two little kids to box, he would take them away immediately.

Link could only give up and prepare to teach the children when they grow older.

"He's such a bastard. Why is a child learning boxing when he's only one year old? Doesn't boxing hurt?"

On the lawn of the mountainside villa, Taylor looked at Link who was playing with the two children and complained.

Iwaka stroked her belly and smiled softly, "Link is also a big boy."

Taylor wrinkled the bridge of his nose and said in disgust, "I hope the children won't be like him when they grow up. Being like him will make people mad."

Ivaca smiled slightly and pulled Taylor to ask about child care and fitness.

(End of chapter)