Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Who is Floyd Mayweather Jr.?

Floyd Mayweather, Jr. is an American professional boxer who retired with an undefeated professional record. He is a five-division world champion, having won fifteen world titles and the lineal championship in four different weight classes. Mayweather was a two-time Ring magazine Fighter of the Year; he also won the Boxing Writers Association of America Fighter of the Year award in 2007 and the Best Fighter ESPY Award in 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012-2014.

Mayweather was the WBC welterweight champion, WBA super welterweight champion, WBC Super welterweight champion, recipient of the WBC diamond super welterweight belt, and was ranked Ring #1 welterweight and Ring #1 ranked junior middleweight. He was also rated as the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world twice, in a span of 10 years, 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 and again in 2014 amd 2015.