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. "People don't know the hell I've been through," he says. His mother was addicted to drugs, and he had an aunt who died from AIDS because of her drug use. It was common for the young Mayweather to come home from school and find used heroin needles in his front yard. 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." 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 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. "I think my grandmother saw my potential first," he said. īoxing has been a part of Mayweather's life since his childhood and he never seriously considered any other profession. He attended Ottawa Hills High School before dropping out. His maternal grandfather was born in Kingston, Jamaica. Mayweather was born with his mother's last name, but his last name would change to Mayweather shortly thereafter. 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. His father, Floyd Mayweather Sr., is a former welterweight contender who fought Hall of Famer Sugar Ray Leonard. Mayweather was born Floyd Joy Sinclair on February 24, 1977, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, into a family of boxers. 6 of all time, totaling an inflation-adjusted $1.2 billion in his career. In November, 2021, Sportico released an all-time athlete earnings list, in which Mayweather ranked no. In 2018, he was the highest-paid athlete in the world, with total earnings, including endorsements, of $285 million, according to Forbes. 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 2006, he founded his own boxing promotional firm, Mayweather Promotions, after leaving Bob Arum's Top Rank. He topped the Forbes and Sports Illustrated lists of the 50 highest-paid athletes of 20, and the Forbes list again in both 20, as the highest-paid athlete in the world. Mayweather is one of the most lucrative pay-per-view attractions of all time, in any sport. He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in the class of 2021. 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 is often referred to as the best defensive boxer 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. 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. As of May 2023, BoxRec ranks him the second greatest boxer of all time, pound for pound. In 2016, ESPN ranked him the greatest boxer, pound for pound, of the last 25 years. 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 (19), 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). Golden Gloves championships (at light flyweight, flyweight, and featherweight), and the U.S. As an amateur, he won a bronze medal in the featherweight division at the 1996 Olympics, three U.S. This includes the Ring magazine title in five weight classes and the lineal championship in four weight classes (twice at welterweight). He retired with an undefeated record and won 15 major world championships from super featherweight to light middleweight. ( né Sinclair February 24, 1977) is an American boxing promoter and former professional boxer who competed between 19.
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