Floyd Mayweather Jr. Wikipedia. Floyd Joy Mayweather Jr. Floyd Joy Sinclair; February 2. American professional boxingpromoter and former professional boxer. He competed from 1. During his career, he held 1.

Rocky Marciano's record of 4. As an amateur, Mayweather won a bronze medal in the featherweight division at the 1. Olympics, three U. S. Golden Gloves championships (at light flyweight, flyweight, and featherweight), and the U. S. national championship at featherweight.

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Mayweather is a two- time winner of The Ring magazine's. Fighter of the Year award (1. Boxing Writers Association of America. Fighter of the Year award (2. Best Fighter ESPY Award (2.

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In 2. 01. 6, Mayweather was ranked by ESPN as the greatest boxer, pound for pound, of the last 2. In the same year, he peaked as Box. Rec's number one fighter of all time, pound for pound, as well as the greatest welterweight of all time.[5][6] Many sporting news and boxing websites, including The Ring, Sports Illustrated, ESPN, Box.

Rec, Fox Sports, and Yahoo! Sports, ranked Mayweather as the best pound for pound boxer in the world twice in a span of ten years.[7][8][9][1. He is often referred to as the best defensive boxer in history, as well as being the most accurate puncher since the existence of Compu. Box, having the highest plus–minus ratio in recorded boxing history.[1. Mayweather has a record of 2. KO), 2. 3 wins (9 KOs) in lineal title fights, 2. KOs) against former or current world titlists, 1.

KOs) against former or current lineal champions, and 2 wins (1 KO) against International Boxing Hall of Fame inductees. Mayweather is one of the most lucrative pay- per- view attractions of all time, in any sport.

He topped the Forbes and Sports Illustrated lists of the 5. Forbes list again in both 2. In 2. 00. 7, he founded his own boxing promotional firm, Mayweather Promotions, after defecting from Bob Arum's Top Rank.[2.

Mayweather has generated approximately 1. PPV buys and $1. 3 billion in revenue throughout his career, surpassing the likes of former top PPV attractions including Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield, Lennox Lewis, Oscar De La Hoya and Manny Pacquiao.[2. Early life. Floyd Joy Mayweather Jr.

Floyd Joy Sinclair on February 2. Grand Rapids, Michigan, into a family of boxers. His father, Floyd Mayweather Sr., was a former welterweight contender who fought Hall of Famer Sugar Ray Leonard. His uncles Jeff and Roger Mayweather were professional boxers, with the latter—Floyd's former trainer—winning two world championships, as well as fighting Hall of Famers Julio César Chávez, Pernell Whitaker, and Kostya Tszyu. Mayweather was born with his mother's last name,[2.

Mayweather shortly thereafter. Watch My Father Die Online Iflix there. He attended Ottawa Hills High School before dropping out. Boxing has been a part of Mayweather's life since his childhood and he never seriously considered any other profession. I think my grandmother saw my potential first," he said.

When I was young, I told her, 'I think I should get a job.' She said, 'No, just keep boxing.'"[2. During the 1. 98.

Mayweather lived in the Hiram Square neighborhood of New Brunswick, New Jersey, where his mother had relatives.[2. He later said, "When I was about eight or nine, I lived in New Jersey with my mother and we were seven deep in one bedroom and sometimes we didn't have electricity. When people see what I have now, they have no idea of where I came from and how I didn't have anything growing up."It was common for the young Mayweather to come home from school and find used heroin needles in his front yard.[2. His mother was addicted to drugs, and he had an aunt who died from AIDS because of her drug use. People don't know the hell I've been through," he says. The most time that his father spent with him was taking him to the gym to train and work on his boxing, according to Mayweather. I don't remember him ever taking me anywhere or doing anything that a father would do with a son, going to the park or to the movies or to get ice cream," he says.

I always thought that he liked his daughter (Floyd's older sister) better than he liked me because she never got whippings and I got whippings all the time."Mayweather's father contends that Floyd is not telling the truth about their early relationship. Even though his daddy did sell drugs, I didn't deprive my son," the elder Mayweather says. The drugs I sold, he was a part of it.

He had plenty of food. He had the best clothes and I gave him money. He didn't want for anything. Anybody in Grand Rapids can tell you that I took care of my kids".[2. Floyd Sr. says he did all of his hustling at night and spent his days with his son, taking him to the gym and training him to be a boxer.

If it wasn't for me he wouldn't be where he is today," he maintains."I basically raised myself," Mayweather says. My grandmother did what she could. When she got mad at me I'd go to my mom's house.

My life was ups and downs." His father says he knows how much pain his incarceration caused his son, but insists he did the best he could. I sent him to live with his grandmother," he says.

It wasn't like I left him with strangers." In the absence of his father, boxing became an outlet for Mayweather.[2. As the elder Mayweather served his time, his son put all of his energy into boxing and dropped out of high school.

I knew that I was going to have to try to take care of my mom and I made the decision that school wasn't that important at the time and I was going to have to box to earn a living," he said.[2. Amateur boxing career. Mayweather had an amateur record of 8. Golden Gloves championships in 1.

He was nicknamed "Pretty Boy" by his amateur teammates because he had relatively few scars, a result of the defensive techniques that his father and uncle (Roger Mayweather) had taught him.[2. In his orthodox defensive stance Mayweather often utilizes the "shoulder roll," an old- school boxing technique in which the right hand is held normally (or slightly higher than normal), the left hand is down around the midsection and the lead shoulder is raised high on the cheek in order to cover the chin and block punches. The right hand (as in the orthodox stance) is used as it normally would be: to block punches coming from the other side, such as left hooks. From this stance Mayweather blocks, slips and deflects most of his opponents' punches (even when cornered) by twisting left and right to the rhythm of their punches.[3. Olympics. At the 1. Olympics in Atlanta, Mayweather won a bronze medal by reaching the semi- finals of the featherweight (5.

In the first fight, Mayweather led 1. Bakhtiyar Tileganov of Kazakhstan, before winning when the fight was stopped. In the second fight, Mayweather outpointed Artur Gevorgyan of Armenia 1. In the quarterfinals, the 1. Mayweather narrowly defeated 2. Lorenzo Aragon of Cuba in an all- action bout to win 1.

U. S boxer to defeat a Cuban in 2. The last time this occurred was the 1. Summer Olympics, when the U.

S Olympic boxing team captured five gold medals; among the recipients was Sugar Ray Leonard. In his semifinal bout against eventual silver medalist. Serafim Todorov of Bulgaria, Mayweather lost by a controversial decision (similar to Roy Jones Jr.'s highly controversial decision loss to Park Si- hun at the 1. Summer Olympics).[3. Referee Hamad Hafaz Shouman of Egypt mistakenly raised Mayweather's hand (thinking he had won), while the decision was announced giving the bout to the Bulgarian.[3.

The U. S. team filed a protest over the Mayweather bout, claiming the judges were intimidated by Bulgaria's Emil Jetchev (head of the boxing officials) into favoring the Bulgarian Todorov by a 1. Three of Jetchev's countrymen were in gold medal bouts.

Judge Bill Waeckerle (one of the four U. S judges working the games for the International Amateur Boxing Federation) resigned as Olympic Games and federation judge after Mayweather lost the decision, which was loudly booed by the crowd at the Alexander Memorial Coliseum.[3.

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