Miscellany

Heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield will earn $60.5 million this year to displace former champion Mike Tyson as the highest-paid athlete in the world, according to Forbes magazine.

The publication, in a cover story for its Aug. 19 issue, reported in its annual list of the “Super 40” highest-paid athletes that Tyson would make $31.5 million. Holyfield’s rise, from 10th position in 1990, was far more dramatic than Tyson’s fall to second.

Third on the list was Michael Jordan of the NBA champion Chicago Bulls, who the magazine estimates will make $16 million in 1991. Of that total, $13.2 million will come from endorsements. Jordan is the only athlete from a team sport to be listed among the 10 highest paid.

Former heavyweight champion George Foreman entered the list at fourth while Razor Ruddock came in at seventh as heavyweight boxers occupied four of the top seven spots. Foreman will earn $14.5 million and Ruddock $10.2 million.