The Best Professional boxer Ever FLOYD MAYWEATHER

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The Best Professional boxer Ever FLOYD MAYWEATHER The Best Professional boxer Ever FLOYD MAYWEATHER

Floyd Mayweather, Jr. ( February 24, 1977) is an American professional boxer known as "TBE" meaning The Best Ever. He is currently undefeated as a professional, and a five-division world champion, having won eight world titles and the lineal championship in three different weight classes. Mayweather is a two-time Ring magazine Fighter of the Year (winning the award in 1998 and 2007); he also won the Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA) Fighter of the Year award in 2007 and the Best Fighter ESPY Award in 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2013.

Mayweather is the WBC welterweight champion, WBA (Super) super welterweight champion, WBC Super welterweight champion, recipient of the WBC diamond super welterweight belt, current Ring #1 ranked welterweight,and Ring #1 ranked junior middleweight. He is also rated as the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world by many sporting news and boxing websites, including Ring, Sports Illustrated, ESPN, BoxRec, Fox Sports, and Yahoo! Sports. Mayweather topped the Forbes and Sports Illustrated lists of the 50 highest-paid athletes of 2012 and 2013 currently making Mayweather the highest paid athlete in the world.

Mayweather served 90 days in jail for battery upon his ex-girlfriend in September 2010.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

Mayweather in June 2011

Statistics

Real name

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

Nickname(s)

Pretty Boy
Money
TBE (The Best Ever)

Rated at

Super featherweight (130 lb)
Lightweight (135 lb)
Light welterweight (140 lb)
Welterweight (147 lb)
Light middleweight (154 lb)

Height

5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)

Reach

72 in (183 cm)

Nationality

American

Born

February 24, 1977 (age 37)
Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S.

Stance

Orthodox

Boxing record

Total fights

Wins

Wins by KO

Losses

Draws

No contests

Medal record[hide]

Olympic Games
Bronze	1996 Atlanta	Featherweight

The Best Ever

Mayweather will go down in boxing history with his legacy set as the undisputed greatest pure boxer to have ever step foot in a boxing ring in any era of the sports illustrious history.

Professional boxing record

Boxing titles

Major World Titles:

WBC Super Featherweight Champion (130 lbs)

WBC Lightweight Champion (135 lbs)

WBC Light Welterweight Champion (140 lbs)

IBF Welterweight Champion (147 lbs)

WBC Welterweight Champion (147 lbs)

(2) WBC Light Middleweight Champion (154 lbs)

(2) WBC Welterweight Champion (147 lbs)

WBA Light Middleweight Champion (154 lbs)

Minor World Titles:

IBO Welterweight Champion (147 lbs)

IBA Welterweight Champion (147 lbs)

The Ring Lineal Championship Titles:

Lineal Super Featherweight Champion (130 lbs)

The Ring Lightweight Champion (135 lbs)

The Ring Welterweight Champion (147 lbs)

The Ring Jr. Middleweight Champion (154 lbs)

Special Titles:

WBC Emeritus Light Middleweight Champion (154 lbs)

WBC Diamond Light Middleweight Champion (154 lbs)

WBC 24K Gold

Light Middleweight Champion (154 lbs)

Honors and awards

1993 Michigan State Golden Gloves Champion, 106 LbS

1993 National Golden Gloves Champion, 106 Lbs

1994 Michigan State Golden Gloves Champion, 112 Lbs

1994 National Golden Gloves Champion, 112 Lbs; Outstanding Boxer Award

1995 National PAL Champion, 125 Lbs; Outstanding Boxer Award

1995 U.S. National Amateur Featherweight Champion, 125 Lbs

1995 Competed at Featherweight at the World Amateur Boxing Championships

1996 Michigan State Golden Gloves Champion, 125 Lbs

1996 National Golden Gloves Champion, 125 Lbs

1996 Qualified as a Featherweight for the United States Olympic Team

1996 Atlanta Olympics Featherweight Bronze medalist

1998 and 2007 International Boxing Award Fighter of the Year

1998 and 2007 The Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year

2000–09 Yahoo! Sports, Best of the Decade

2002 World Boxing Hall of Fame Fighter of the Year

2005 and 2007 World Boxing Council Boxer of the Year

2005–08 The Ring number one pound for pound

2007 Boxing Writers Association of America Fighter of the Year

2007 ESPN Fighter of the Year

2007 Forbes Magazine, Ranked "Number 14" Richest Celebrity Paydays

2007 New York Daily News Fighter of the Year

2007 World Boxing Council Event of the Year (The World Awaits)

2007 World Boxing Council Knockout of the Year (against Ricky Hatton)

2007, 2008 and 2010 Best Fighter ESPY Award

2007, 2008 and 2010 The Ring Magazine Event of the Year

2008 Sports Illustrated, The 50 Highest-Earning American Athletes (ranked 4th)[

2008 Yahoo Sports, Ranked "Number 6" Most Powerful People in Boxing[

2009 The Ring Magazine Comeback of the Year

2009–10 BoxRec, BBC Sport and Yahoo! Sports number one pound for pound

2010 Yahoo! Sports Boxings Most Influential (ranked 70th)

2010 Forbes Magazine Celebrity 100 (ranked 31st)

2010 Forbes Magazine, The Worlds 50 Top-Earning Athletes (ranked 2nd)

2010 Sports Illustrated, The 50 Highest-Earning American Athletes (ranked 3rd)

2012 Forbes Magazine #1 of the worlds 100 highest paid athletes.

2012 Sports Illustrated #1 fortunes 50.

2012 Best Fighter ESPY Award.

2013 The Ring number one pound for pound.