He said he quit boxing in 2015, but he couldn't quit. Is money the only thing that motivates him?
Breaking news: Floyd Mayweather will have an exhibition match with British internet celebrity Deji Olatunji on November 13, 2022. 45-year-old Mayweather, who won all 50 matches in his professional boxing career, will meet 25-year-old Olatunji, who has close to 11 million followers on his Youtube channel. The match in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, will be held on November 13 at the Coca-Cola Arena.
Floyd Mayweather was born on February 24, 1977, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA. His full name is Floyd Joy Mayweather. He is a retired professional boxer. On July 18, 2005, he was selected as the best boxer of his own weight in the world by Ring Magazine. His father, Floyd Mayweather Sr, is a former Welterweight boxer. His uncle, Jeff Mayweather, is a former IBF Super Featherweight Champion. His trainer and also his uncle, Roger Mayweather, is a boxer who has won a championship in the 2nd welterweight division.
Floyd Joy Mayweather Jr. (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.
He owes his very good defense to the defensive techniques his father and uncle taught him. This form of defense is based on constantly moving in the ring.
Floyd Mayweather, who has professionally undefeated world championships and is champion in four different weight classes, is the Valterweight, Super Valterweight belt in the WBA, Welterweight, Super-Welterweight belt in the WBC, and Welterweight belt in the WBO.
He made his career debut in super featherweight with Roberto Apodaca on October 11, 1996. He managed to win the match in 2 rounds with Technical Knockout. He claimed his first title match with Genaro Hernandez for the WBC Super Featherweight Championship. After this match, he defended his title 8 times. Then he switched to Lightweight and found Jose Luis Castillo against him.
Arturo Gatti made statements about Mayweather as a Class C boxer. Arturo Gatti paid for this by knockout. Exactly one month after this encounter, he got into trouble with his ex-girlfriend. He faced a one-year prison sentence. In his trial, his girlfriend claimed that he kicked and punched her while they were arguing. However, as a result of the police investigations, Floyd was found not guilty and acquitted.
Floyd Mayweather, who got up at 3 am every morning and started to train, had 88 vehicles in his home in Miami and Las Vegas when his biggest passion for luxury was cars. In addition, he wears the shoes he bought only once and spends 6 thousand 500 dollars a month only on underwear.
Mayweather, who won the "boxing match of the century" match with boxer Manny Pacquiao on May 2, 2015, won the World Boxing Council (WBC), World Boxing Organization (WBO), and World Boxing Association (WBA) belts at the same time. He earned $180 million overnight. With this win, the undefeated boxer, who is the world's highest-paid athlete with a fortune approaching 1 billion dollars in total, reached 48 victories in 48 matches.
Mayweather was named by Forbes and Sports Illustrated in 2012 and 2013, and as the highest paid athlete in the world, with 50 top-earning athletes on the Forbes list again in 2014.
Floyd Mayweather announced his retirement from boxing in September 2015.
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Mayweather said he ended his professional career by defeating Irish mixed martial arts athlete Conor McGregor in 2017.
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While playing 4 exhibition matches, the first of which was in December 2018, Mayweather won two matches with technical knockouts.
Floyd Mayweather faced Youtuber Logan Paul on June 7, 2021. Unlike professional competitions, only knockout would determine the winner of this match between two world-famous names. So the points scored during the match didn't matter. When the last bell rang, a surprising result emerged. The match, held at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami, Florida, started at 20:00 local time. In the match, Paul pitted his opponent against former legendary boxer Mayweather for 8 rounds.
During the 8 round of the struggle, where Floyd's attacks were more intense, the experienced boxer made many attacks to overthrow his young opponent, but the match ended in a draw as he could not successful. After the match, Paul said, "I don't want anyone to tell me that anything is impossible again. Being here with one of the greatest boxers of all time proves that the impossible can be beaten." Paul, who taunts his opponent on the Internet, added that he was honored to share the ring with Mayweather.