Lance Franklin's contract will be chump change compared to some sporting superstars Floyd Mayweather's per-fight deal may never be beaten. LANCE Franklin's Sydney deal will be pocket money compared with some sporting superstars. Check out some of the deals the biggest names in world sport have inked in recent years. Alex Rodriguez has been laughing all the way to the bank for the last 12 years. It pays to have job security. No, it REALLY pays to have job security. Especially when your name is Alex Rodriguez, your boss is the New York Yankees and they can afford to sign you to a 10-year deal worth $295 million. Third-baseman Rodriguez inked his latest deal with the men in stripes back in 2008, but in case you were worried he might have been short on coin before that, be comforted by the knowledge that the deal that ran from 2001-2008 was worth almost $27 million a year. Surely even an ever-present drug investigation couldn't dampen the mood in the Rodriguez household on pay day. It's not the biggest contract, but for dollars-per-outing value, boxing superstar Floyd Mayweather will probably never be toppled. Mayweather this year signed a six-fight deal with Showtime worth a staggering $192 million. That's $32 million per fight, for those of you whose brain just exploded. Real Madrid's Gareth Bale reacts....possibly to the calculations on how much he'll earn just for getting up in the morning. An average one-bedroom apartment in Melbourne will set you back about $400,000 and a few years of penny pinching. Or one game of football if you're Real Madrid's latest toy, Gareth Bale. Bale's six-year deal with the Spanish giant will net him more than $156 million, which will no doubt be spent and invested wisely, if his world football forebears are anything to go by. Kimi Raikkonen would want to have been winning too, given his monumental three-year contract deal with Ferrari. Your Sunday drive will generally cost you a packet in petrol, snacks and whatever activity your friends or kids have duped into transporting them to. No such concern for F1 driver Kimi Raikkonen, who pocketed more than $3 million each time he donned his red Ferrari garb while driving for the motorsport giant between 2007 and 2009. Raikkonen's three-year deal was worth more than $54 million a year - the biggest salary of any sportsperson in a team sport at the time. Kobe Bryant's career has been almost as long as it's been expensive. Basketball - and the LA Lakers - have been kind to Bryant, whose deal from 2004-2011 was worth a handy $145 million. Or $21 million a year. Or $250,000 a game. Or $5200 per minute, assuming he played all 48 of them every night. Which he didn't. Russian ice hockey player Alexander Ovechkin ain't pretty, but he's rich. On most conventional lists of smart investment decisions, handing decade-plus contracts to players in one of the most brutal sports on the planet probably doesn't figure too prominently. But the Washington Capitals ice hockey franchise must have had a good feeling about Ovechkin in 2008 when they dished him up a 13-year deal worth $124 million. Ovechkin will be 36 when his contract runs out - about the same number of bones he'll still have intact. Joe Flacco signed the biggest NFL deal in history after this year's Super Bowl success. When the Baltimore Ravens won Super Bowl XXXV 13 years ago, they let quarterback Trent Dilfer go to Seattle the following season. They weren't going to let the same thing happen when they saluted in the big dance again last year, so they promptly locked Flacco into a six-year, $128 million cash-fest. Their return on their investment so far this year? Two wins, two losses.