Floyd Mayweather, whose full name is Floyd Joy Mayweather, is an American professional boxing, promoter and former professional boxer, who competed between 1996 and 2015, and made a one-fight comeback in 2017. Floyd Mayweather won fifteen major world titles including The Ring in five weight classes, the lineal championship in four weight classes; twice at welterweight, during his career, and retired with an undefeated record. Floyd won a bronze medal in the featherweight division at the 1996 Olympics, three United States Golden Gloves championships; at light flyweight, flyweight, and featherweight, as an amateur, and the United States national championship at featherweight.
The Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA) named Floyd a ‘Fighter of the Decade’ for the 2010s, a two-time winner of The Ring magazine’s Fighter of the Year award, that’s in 1998 and 2007, a three-time winner of the BWAA Fighter of the Year award that’s in 2007, 2013, and 2015, and a six-time winner of the Best Fighter ESPY Award, from 2007 to 2010 and also 2012 to 2014. Floyd was ranked by ESPN, in 2016, as the greatest boxer, pound for pound, of the last 25 years and BoxRec ranks Mayweather number two fighter of all time, pound for pound, and the greatest welterweight of his era, as of July 2020. Several sporting news and boxing websites, including The Ring, Sports Illustrated, ESPN, BoxRec, Fox Sports, and Yahoo! Sports, ranked Floyd as the best pound for pound boxer in the world twice in a span of 10 years. Floyd was ranked second on Ranker’s list of best boxers of the 21st century in 2020.
In history, Floyd is often referred to as the best defensive boxer, and being the most accurate puncher since the existence of CompuBox, having the highest plus–minus ratio in recorded boxing history. Floyd has a record of twenty six consecutive wins in world title fights, twenty three wins in lineal title fights, twenty four wins against former or current world titlists, twelve wins against former or current lineal champions, and three wins against International Boxing Hall of Fame inductees.
Age
Floyd Joy was born on February 24th, 1977 in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Family
Floyd’s father, Floyd Mayweather Senior, was a former welterweight contender who fought Hall of Famer Sugar Ray Leonard and his uncles Jeff and Roger Mayweather were also professional boxers with the latter—mayweather’s former trainer—winning 2 world championships, and fighting Hall of Famers Julio César Chávez, Pernell Whitaker and Kostya Tszyu. Floyd was born with his mother’s last name, though his last name would change to Mayweather shortly thereafter. Floyd’s maternal grandfather was born in Kingston in Jamaica. Mayweather joined the Ottawa Hills High School before dropping out.
Wife
Josie Harris, who was ex-wife of Mayweather, was found dead in March 2020 in her car in the city of Valencia in California.
Net worth
Mayweather’s estimated net worth in 2020 is approximately $560 million. Floyd is known for his 50 wins and 0 losses. Floyd is ranked as the highest-paid athlete in the world and he can easily earn $150 to $300 million a year when he is fighting, despite having very few endorsement deals.
