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Floyd Mayweather Jr.

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Mihaiela Cornelia Foalis
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Veres Andrei Alexandru
 Why I chosed to write about Floyd Mayweather

• I chosed to write about Floyd Myweather because I am fascinated by the record he has set in the world of boxing and the
things he has achieved over the years.
 Introduction

• Floyd Joy Mayweather Jr. Sinclair; February 24, 1977 is an American boxing promoter and former professional boxer. He
currently owns a team in the NASCAR Cup Series named The Money Team Racing. As a professional boxer he competed
between 1996 and 2017, retiring with an undefeated record and winning 15 major world championships from super
featherweight to light middleweight. This includes the Ring magazine title in five weight classes and the lineal championship
in four weight classes (twice at welterweight). As an amateur boxer, 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.

• Mayweather was named "Fighter of the Decade" for the 2010s by the Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA), 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). In 2016, ESPN ranked him the greatest boxer, pound for pound, of the last 25 years. As of May 2021, BoxRec
ranks him the greatest boxer of all time, pound for pound. Many sporting news and boxing websites, including The Ring,
Sports Illustrated, ESPN, BoxRec, Fox Sports, and Yahoo! Sports, ranked Mayweather as the best pound-for-pound boxer in
the world twice in a span of ten years.

• He is often referred to as the best defensive boxer in history, as well as being the most accurate puncher since the existence of
CompuBox, having the highest plus–minus ratio in recorded boxing history.He has a record of 26 consecutive wins in world
title fights (10 by KO), 23 wins (9 KOs) in lineal title fights, 24 wins (7 KOs) against former or current world titlists, 12 wins
(3 KOs) against former or current lineal champions, and 5 wins (1 KO) against International Boxing Hall of Fame inductees.
He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in the class of 2021.

• 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, as the
highest-paid athlete in the world. In 2006, he founded his own boxing promotional firm, Mayweather Promotions, after
leaving Bob Arum's Top Rank. He has generated approximately 24 million PPV buys and $1.67 billion in revenue throughout
his career, surpassing the likes of former top PPV attractions including Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield, Lennox Lewis and
Oscar De La Hoya. In 2018, he was the highest-paid athlete in the world, with total earnings, including endorsements, of $285
 The early life of Floyd Mayweather Jr.

• Mayweather was born Floyd Joy Sinclair on February 24, 1977, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, into a family of boxers. His
father, Floyd Mayweather Sr., is a former welterweight contender who fought Hall of Famer Sugar Ray Leonard. His uncles
Jeff and the late 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, but his last name would change to Mayweather shortly thereafter. His maternal grandfather
was born in Kingston, Jamaica. 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.'" During the 1980s, Mayweather lived in the Hiram Square neighborhood of New Brunswick, New
Jersey, where his mother had relatives. 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. 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". 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.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.
 Amateur boxing career

• Mayweather had an amateur record of 84 wins and 8 losses, and won national Golden Gloves championships in 1993 (at 106
lb), 1994 (at 114 lb), and 1996 (at 125 lb).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. 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.
 The 1996 Olympics

• At the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Mayweather won a bronze medal by reaching the semi-finals of the featherweight 57-kg division.

• In the first fight, Mayweather led 10–1 on points over Bakhtiyar Tileganov of Kazakhstan, before winning when the fight was stopped.
In the second fight, Mayweather outpointed Artur Gevorgyan of Armenia 16–3. In the quarterfinals, the 19-year-old Mayweather
narrowly defeated 22-year-old Lorenzo Aragon of Cuba in an all-action bout to win 12–11, becoming the first U.S boxer to defeat a
Cuban in 20 years. 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 Roy Jones Jr.'s highly controversial decision loss to Park Si-hun at the
1988 Summer Olympics). 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.

• 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 10–9 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. "I refuse to be part of an organization that continues to conduct its officiating
in this manner", Waeckerle wrote in his letter of resignation to federation president Anwar Chowdhry.

• 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. "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. "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.
 Professional boxing career

• Super featherweight
• Mayweather won his first professional bout on October 11, 1996, when he knocked out fellow newcomer Roberto Apodaca in
Round 2. 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 fight—a second-round knockout of Sam Girard).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. During his fight with Tony Duran 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". 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".
I’m not fighting boxers anymore.
The picture was taken in the match against Connor McGregor, it was a hard match
even if Connor is an MMA fighter not a profassional boxer.
 Mayweather vs. Canelo

• Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Canelo Álvarez, billed as The One, was a boxing light middleweight championship superfight. The
bout was held on September 14, 2013, in the MGM Grand Garden Arena, at the MGM Grand Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas,
Nevada, United States, on Showtime PPV. The bout took place at a 152-pound catchweight, two pounds below the light
middleweight limit of 154 pounds. Mayweather received $41.5 million for this fight before taking into account pay-per-view
sales.

• The fight was won by Mayweather in a 12-round majority decision in front of a sold out crowd of 16,746. Judge C. J. Ross
scored the fight 114–114, a draw. Judge Dave Moretti had it 116–112, and Craig Metcalfe scored it 117–111. Ross retired
after this fight, after the scorecards were roundly criticized for not reflecting how dominant Mayweather's performance was.
Out of 86 media scorecards, all 86 scored the fight for Mayweather, with an average score of 119-109.
• This was the hardest match for Mayweather because Canelo is almost at his level of skill and experience.
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Introduction……………………………………………………………………………………………………………..page 2
The early life of Floyd Mayweather Jr. …………………………………………………………………......................page3-4
Amateur Boxing career…………………………………………………………………………………………………page 5
The 1996 Olympics…………………………………………………………………………………………………….page 6
Professional Boxing Career…………………………………………………………………………………………….page 7-8
Mayweather vs. Canelo…………………………………………………………………………………………………page 9-10