Floyd Mayweather Jr.
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| Born | Floyd Joy Sinclair February 24, 1977 Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
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| Height | 5 ft 8 in (173 cm)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Reach | 72 in (183 cm)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Stance | Orthodox | ||||||||||||||
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| Total fights | 50 | ||||||||||||||
| Wins | 50 | ||||||||||||||
| Wins by KO | 27 | ||||||||||||||
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Floyd Joy Mayweather Jr. (né Sinclair; born February 24, 1977) is an American boxing promoter and former professional boxer who competed between 1996 and 2017. He retired with an undefeated record and won 15 major world championships spanning five weight classes from super featherweight to light middleweight. This includes the Ring magazine title in three weight classes. As an amateur, he won a bronze medal in the featherweight division at the 1996 Olympics, three U.S. Golden Gloves championships (at light flyweight, flyweight, and featherweight), and the U.S. national championship at featherweight. After retiring from professional boxing in August 2017, he transitioned to exhibition boxing.
As of July 2025, BoxRec ranks him the third greatest boxer of all time, pound for pound.[2] Mayweather was named "Fighter of the Decade" for the 2010s by the Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA) and The Sporting News,[3] a two-time winner of The Ring magazine's Fighter of the Year award (1998 and 2007), a three-time winner of the BWAA Fighter of the Year award (2007, 2013, and 2015), and a six-time winner of the Best Fighter ESPY Award (2007–2010, 2012–2014).[4][5] In 2016, ESPN ranked him the greatest boxer, pound for pound, of the last 25 years;[6] in 2024, they also ranked him the best boxer of the 21st century.[7]
He is referred to as one of the best defensive boxers in history: since the existence of CompuBox, Mayweather is the most accurate puncher among professional boxers, having the highest plus–minus ratio in recorded boxing history.[8][9][10] He has a tied record with Joe Louis of 26 consecutive wins in world title fights.[11] He also holds 24 wins (7 KOs) against former or current world titlists, and 8 wins (3 KOs) against International Boxing Hall of Fame inductees. He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in the class of 2021.[12]
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 50 highest-paid athletes of 2012 and 2013, and the Forbes list again in both 2014 and 2015,[13][14] as the highest-paid athlete in the world.[15][16] In 2006, he founded his own boxing promotional firm, Mayweather Promotions, after leaving Bob Arum's Top Rank.[17] He has generated approximately 24 million PPV buys and $1.67 billion in revenue throughout his career.[18] In 2018, he was the highest-paid athlete in the world, with total earnings, including endorsements, of $285 million, according to Forbes.[19] In November, 2021, Sportico released an all-time athlete earnings list, in which Mayweather ranked no. 6 all time, totaling an inflation-adjusted $1.2 billion in his career.[20]
- ^ a b Showtime Championship Boxing tale of the tape prior to the Conor McGregor fight.
- ^ "BoxRec ratings: all fighters, all locations". BoxRec. Retrieved July 24, 2025.
- ^ "Who will be Fighter of the Decade? Canelo, Inoue, Usyk, Crawford poised to join pound-for-pound best and boxing's greatest of all time | Sporting News". www.sportingnews.com. May 2, 2024. Retrieved July 25, 2025.
- ^ "Floyd Mayweather wins ESPY Award beating out Manny Pacquiao & Georges St-Pierre". nowboxing.com. Archived from the original on October 24, 2014. Retrieved October 24, 2014.
- ^ "Mayweather wins fifth ESPY award". The Ring. Archived from the original on October 29, 2013. Retrieved January 1, 2022.
- ^ "#P4Prank: Ranking top 25 pound-for-pound boxers of past 25 years". ESPN. April 8, 2016. Archived from the original on December 25, 2016. Retrieved December 27, 2016.
- ^ "Ranking the top 10 men's boxers of the 21st century". ESPN.com. July 25, 2024. Retrieved July 25, 2025.
- ^ Guryashkin, Igor, "Mayweather measures up with greats" Archived February 2, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, ESPN, May 3, 2012.
- ^ Manfred, Tony, "The fighters who've lost to Floyd Mayweather explain why he's so impossible to beat" Archived January 10, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, Business Insider, April 30, 2015.
- ^ Iole, Kevin (September 10, 2015). "Floyd Mayweather's flawed perfect record and how he would have fared against all-time greats". Yahoo! Sports. Archived from the original on August 27, 2016. Retrieved June 30, 2016.
- ^ "Floyd Mayweather's shared title record may never be broken". October 18, 2024.
- ^ Seto, J.L. (January 1, 2021). "Floyd Mayweather Is Finally Heading to the Hall of Fame". Sportscasting.com. Archived from the original on July 6, 2022. Retrieved July 22, 2021.
- ^ "Sport's richest athletes named". The New Zealand Herald. June 11, 2014. Archived from the original on January 1, 2022. Retrieved January 1, 2022.
- ^ "2015 Ranking The World's Highest Paid Athletes List". Archived from the original on September 20, 2012. Retrieved August 28, 2017.
- ^ "Floyd Mayweather knocks Tiger Woods off the top of Forbes list". June 19, 2012. Archived from the original on February 23, 2015. Retrieved February 11, 2018.
- ^ Bishop, Greg (December 17, 2011). "Al Haymon Quietly Shakes Up Boxing". The New York Times. Archived from the original on November 12, 2020. Retrieved February 16, 2017.
- ^ "Mayweather turns down $8M to fight Margarito". Espn.com. April 25, 2006. Archived from the original on January 1, 2022. Retrieved January 1, 2022.
- ^ "Floyd Mayweather Jr". BoxRec.com. Archived from the original on January 17, 2013. Retrieved December 27, 2016.
- ^ Spector, Jess and Bowen, Fred (March 11, 2019). "Are Pro Athletes Overpaid?". Junior Scholastic. Archived from the original on January 1, 2022. Retrieved January 1, 2022.
- ^ Akopyan, Manouk (November 5, 2021). "Floyd Mayweather Jr. No. 6 On All-Time Athlete Earnings List With $1.2B". BoxingScene.com. Archived from the original on October 31, 2023. Retrieved November 7, 2021.