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    Floyd Mayweather

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    Floyd Mayweather Jr. is considered one of the greatest boxers of all time based on his undefeated record and championships in multiple weight classes. He comes from a family of boxers and has faced adversity growing up.

    Mayweather was born into a family of boxers and grew up in a difficult environment. He was encouraged by his grandmother to focus on boxing. His father and uncles were also professional boxers who helped train him.

    As an amateur, Mayweather won medals at the Olympics but lost a controversial decision in the semifinals. He qualified for the Olympics and had success, but felt he should have won the gold medal in his weight class.

    Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

    (born Floyd Joy Sinclair; February 24, 1977) is an American


    professional boxer. He is currently undefeated as a professional and is a five-division world
    champion, having won ten world titles and the lineal championship in four 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, 2013, and 2014.[1][2]
    Mayweather is the WBC,[3] WBA and Ring[4] welterweight champion, and the WBC Super, WBA,
    and Ring[5] junior middle weight champion. 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.[6][7][8][9][10][11]Mayweather topped
    the Forbes and Sports Illustrated lists of the 50 highest-paid athletes of 2012 and 2013, and the
    Forbes list again in 2014,[12] listing Mayweather as the highest paid athlete in the world. [13][14]
    Contents
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    1 Early life and education

    2 Amateur career and Olympics

    3 Professional career
    3.1 Super featherweight

    3.1.1 Mayweather vs. Hernandez

    3.1.2 Mayweather vs. Corrales


    3.2 Lightweight

    3.2.1 Mayweather vs. Castillo I

    3.2.2 Mayweather vs. Castillo II


    3.3 Light welterweight

    3.3.1 Mayweather vs. Gatti


    3.4 Welterweight

    3.4.1 Mayweather vs. Judah

    3.4.2 Mayweather vs. Baldomir

    3.5 Light middleweight

    3.5.1 Mayweather vs. De La Hoya

    3.6 Return to welterweight

    3.6.1 Mayweather vs. Hatton

    3.7 Comeback

    3.7.1 Mayweather vs. Marquez

    3.7.2 Mayweather vs. Mosley

    3.7.3 Negotiations with Manny Pacquiao


    3.8 Return to the ring

    3.8.1 Mayweather vs. Ortiz

    3.9 Return to light middleweight

    3.9.1 Mayweather vs. Cotto

    3.10 Jail term

    3.11 Mandatory title defense at welterweight


    3.11.1 Mayweather vs. Guerrero

    3.12 Third return to light middleweight

    3.12.1 Mayweather vs. lvarez

    3.13 Welterweight unification

    3.13.1 Mayweather vs. Maidana I

    3.13.2 Mayweather vs. Maidana II

    3.13.3 Mayweather vs. Pacquiao

    4 Professional boxing record

    5 Boxing titles

    6 Pay-per-view bouts

    7 World Wrestling Entertainment

    8 Dancing with the Stars

    9 Personal
    o

    9.1 Criminal convictions

    10 Filmography

    11 Honors and awards

    12 See also

    13 References

    14 External links

    Early life and education


    Mayweather was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on February 24, 1977, 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 Mayweather and Roger Mayweather) were professional boxers, with
    Roger Floyds current trainer winning two world championships. Mayweather was born with his
    mother's last name,[15] but his last name would change to Mayweather shortly thereafter.
    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", Mayweather said. "When I was
    young, I told her 'I think I should get a job'. She said, 'No, just keep boxing'". [16] "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", Mayweather said. "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 not uncommon for young Mayweather to come home from school and find used heroin
    needles in his front yard.[17] His mother was also 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 stepsister) 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".[18] Floyd
    senior 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".
    Boxing became Mayweather's outlet a way to deal with his father's absence and his illiteracy(to
    this day he is still illiterate).[citation needed] As the elder Mayweather served his time his son with speed
    and an uncanny ring sense put all his energies into boxing, dropping 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", Mayweather says. [18]

    Amateur career and Olympics


    Mayweather had an amateur record of 846[19] and won national Golden Gloves championships in
    1993 (at 106 lb), 1994 (at 114 lb), and 1996 (at 125 lb).[20] 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.[21] 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. [22]
    At the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Mayweather won a bronze medal by reaching the semi-finals of
    the featherweight (57-kg)[23] division.
    In the opening round Mayweather led 101 on points over Bakhtiyar Tileganov of Kazakhstan,
    before winning when the fight was stopped. In the second round, Mayweather outpointed Artur
    Gevorgyan of Armenia 163. In the quarterfinals, the 19-year-old Mayweather narrowly defeated 22year-old Lorenzo Aragon of Cubain an all-action bout to win 1211, becoming the first U.S boxer to
    defeat a Cuban in 20 years.[24] The last time this occurred was the 1976 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 the Roy Jones Jr. decision).[25] 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.[26]
    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 109
    decision in the 125-pound semifinal bout. 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.[27][28] "I refuse to
    be part of an organisation that continues to conduct its officiating in this manner", Waeckerle wrote in
    his letter of resignation to federation president Anwar Chowdhry.[29]
    In the official protest U.S. team manager Gerald Smith said Mayweather landed punches that were
    not counted, while Todorov was awarded points without landing a punch.[30] "The judging was totally
    incompetent", Waeckerle said. The judges failed to impose a mandatory two-point deduction against
    Todorov after he was warned five times by the referee for slapping.[26] "Everybody knows Floyd
    Mayweather is the gold-medal favorite at 57 kilograms", Mayweather said afterward. "In America, it's
    known as 125 pounds. You know and I know I wasn't getting hit. They say he's the world champion.
    Now you all know who the real world champion is".[30]
    Featherweight Olympic qualification

    Defeated William Jenkins RSC/TKO-3

    Defeated James Baker RSCH/TKO-1

    Lost to Augie Sanchez PTS (1112)

    Defeated Carlos Navarro PTS (3111)

    Defeated Augie Sanchez PTS (128) in the box-offs

    Defeated Augie Sanchez PTS (2010) in the box-offs

    Olympic results

    Defeated Bakhtiyar Tileganov (Kazakhstan) RSCI/TKO-2

    Defeated Artur Gevorgyan (Armenia) PTS (163)

    Defeated Lorenzo Aragon (Cuba) PTS (1211)

    Lost to Serafim Todorov (Bulgaria) PTS (910)*


    *Decision was protested unsuccessfully by the U.S. team

    Professional career
    Super featherweight
    Mayweather fought his first professional bout on October 11, 1996 against fellow newcomer
    Roberto Apodaca, who was knocked out in round two. Mayweather's trainer at the time was his
    uncle, Roger Mayweather; his father was still imprisoned after his conviction for illegal drug
    trafficking in 1993. The latter took over as his son's trainer when he was released from prison
    (after Mayweather, Jr.'s 14th fighta second-round knockout of Sam Girard).[31] From 1996 to
    early 1998, Mayweather won most of his fights by knockout or TKO.
    Early in his pro-career, Mayweather received praise from all corners of the boxing world and was
    touted as a pugilistic prodigy.[32] During his fight with Tony Duran[33] the ESPN commentator
    remarked, "Emmanuel Steward was quoted as saying there have been very few who have been
    more talented than this kid. He will probably win two or three world championships; I think he will
    go on to be the best ever".[34] IBHOF trainer and commentator Gil Clancy commented before
    Mayweather's ninth professional fight (against Jesus Chavez), "I thought that Floyd Mayweather
    was the outstanding pro prospect in the entire Olympic games".[35]

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