The Top 8 Richest Professional Video Game Players In The World

As it stands today, the highest paid athlete in the world is boxer Floyd Mayweather. His earnings, with no endorsements, total some $105 million dollars. Footballer Christiano Ronaldo comes in second, with his bank manager gleefully overseeing around $80 million a year. Imagine that. Getting paid such substantial amounts for doing something you love every day, something that could hardly be considered a "job" at all.

Ciaran Utting

Published: Jun 26, 2014 12:04 pm

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5) Jang Min Chul – South Korea

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Jang Min Chul

AKA: MC Total earnings: $453,926

Back to South Korea, and back to StarCraft. Are you starting to see a pattern emerging? On the circuit, MC is something of a veteran. At the ripe old age of 24, he’s one of the most traveled competition players around, particularly frequenting tournaments in and around Europe, and stuffing 79 contests under his belt in the process – almost double the average.

Aside from getting about, MC is particularly known for performing ritualistic ceremonies after any victories he may have accumulated, and in the 2011 MLG Providence Pro-Circuit pulled some weird, crowd-pleasing moves after his win while dressed as a Murloc. That’s way more exiting than Usain Bolt’s “lightning Bolt” pose, I’m certain.

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Ciaran Utting

Ciarán Utting loves video games and books with pictures of speedboats on the cover. There's plenty more of his drivel on Twitter.