0 Official Site Olympic medal record Competitor for USA Men's boxing Bronze 1996 Atlanta Featherweight Floyd Joy Mayweather, Jr. (born Floyd Sinclair; February 24, 1977), is an American professional boxer.[3] He is a five-division world champion, where he has won ten world titles, including the lineal championship in two different weight classes.[4] He is a two-time The Ring "Fighter of the Year" winning the award in 1998 and 2007,[5] and also Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA) "Fighter of the Year" in 2007.[6] He is undefeated as a professional boxer. Currently, Mayweather is the WBC Emeritus World Super Welterweight Champion.[7] He was formerly rated as the "number one" pound-for-pound best boxer in the world by most sporting news and boxing websites, including The Ring, BoxRec.com, Sports Illustrated, ESPN, BBC Sports and Yahoo! Sports but was removed from the rankings due to retirement and currently due to inactivity.[8] Conten! ts 1 Early Life 2 Amateur career and Olympics 3 Professional Career 3.1 Super Featherweight 3.2 Lightweight 3.3 Super Lightweight 3.4 Welterweight 3.5 Super Welterweight 3.6 Return to Welterweight 3.7 Comeback 3.7.1 Negotiations with Manny Pacquiao 3.7.2 Return to the Ring 4 Professional boxing record 5 Titles in boxing 6 World Wrestling Entertainment 7 Dancing with the Stars 8 Domestic violence cases 9 Honours, awards and recognitions 10 See also 11 Notes 12 External links Early Life Fitted with boxing gloves while he was still a toddler, Floyd Mayweather started boxing at the age of seven, and his acumen for the hardest game was obvious from the start . Born and raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Mayweather was born into a boxing family. His father, Floyd Mayweather Sr. was a former welterweight contender who fought Hall of Famer Sugar Ray Leonard, and his uncles, Roger Mayweather and Jeff Mayweather, were also pro fighters, with Roger – Floyd's current tra! iner – winning two world championships. Mayweather was born ! with his mother's last name,[9] but his last name would change to Mayweather shortly thereafter. Aged 16, Mayweather went to live with his grandmother, after his father was sent to federal prison for smuggling drugs.[10] Amateur career and Olympics Mayweather had an amateur record of 84–6[11] and won national Golden Gloves championships in 1993 (at 106 lb), 1994 (at 114 lb), and 1996 (at 125 lb).[12] He was given the nickname "Pretty Boy" by his amateur teammates because he had relatively few scars, a result of the defensive techniques that his father (Floyd Mayweather, Sr.) and uncle (Roger Mayweather) had taught him.[13] In his orthodox defensive stance, Mayweather often utilizes the 'shoulder roll'. The shoulder roll is 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 rig! ht hand (from 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.[14] At the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Mayweather won a bronze medal by reaching the semi-finals of the featherweight (57 kg)[15] division. In the opening round, Mayweather led 10–1 on points over Bakhtiyar Tileganov of Kazakhstan before he won in Round 2 by referee stoppage. In the second round, Mayweather outpointed Artur Gevorgyan of Armenia 16–3. In the quarterfinals, the 19 year old Mayweather, narrowingly defeated the 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.[16] The last time this had occurred, was at 1976 Summer Olympics when the U.S Olympic boxing team, captured five gold medals, am! ong its recipients was boxing great Sugar Ray Leonard. In his ! semifina l bout against the eventual silver medalist, Serafim Todorov of Bulgaria, Mayweather lost by a controversial decision similarly to the Roy Jones Jr.'s decision.[17] The U.S team filed a protest over the Mayweather bout, claiming the judges were intimated by Bulgaria's Emil Jetchev, head of the boxing officials, into favoring Bulgarian Serafim 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, quit both as an Olympic judge and as a federation judge after Mayweather lost a decision loudly booed by the crowd at the Alexander Memorial Coliseum.[18][19] "I refuse to be part of an organisation that continues to conduct its officiating in this manner," Waeckerle wrote in a letter of resignation to federation President Anwar Chowdhry.[20] Even the referee, Hamad Hafaz Shouman of Egypt, thought Mayweather ! has won, mistakenly raising his hand as the decision was announced giving the bout to the Bulgarian.[21] In the official protest, U.S team manager Gerald Smith said Mayweather landed punches that were not counted, while Todorov was given points without landing a punch.[22] "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.[23] "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."[24] Qualification as a Featherweight for the United States Olympic Team. Defeated William Jenkins RSC/TKO-3 Defeated James Baker RSCH/TKO-1 Lost to Augie Sanchez PTS (11-12) Defeated Carlos Navarro PTS (31-11) Defeated Augie Sanchez PTS (12-8) at t! he Box-offs Defeated Augie Sanchez PTS (20-10) at the Box-offs! Olympic Results Defeated Bakhtiyar Tileganov (Kazakhstan) RSCI/TKO-2 Defeated Artur Gevorgyan (Armenia) PTS (16-3) Defeated Lorenzo Aragon (Cuba) PTS (12-11) Lost to Serafim Todorov (Bulgaria) PTS (9-10) Controversial decision was officially protested (unsuccessfully) by the U.S. team. Professional Career Super Featherweight Mayweather fought his first professional bout on October 11, 1996 against fellow newcomer Roberto Apodaca who was knocked out in round 2. Mayweather's trainer at the time was his uncle, Roger Mayweather, because Floyd Mayweather, Sr. was still imprisoned after having been convicted of illegal drug trafficking in 1993. Mayweather, Sr. took over as Mayweather, Jr.'s trainer when he was released from prison (after Mayweather, Jr.'s fourteenth fight—a second-round knockout of Sam Girard).[25] From 1996 to early 1998, Mayweather won most of his fights by knockout or TKO. On October 3, 1998, Mayweather won his first world title, the WBC Super Featherweight champion! ship, when the corner of Genaro Hernandez stopped the fight after round 8. The official scorecards at the time of stoppage had Mayweather ahead 80-72, 79-73, and 79-73. Hernandez had never been defeated at the weight class, and his only loss had come to Oscar De La Hoya three years earlier. In his first title defense, Mayweather would challenge top Super Featherweight contender Angel Manfredy. Manfredy was viewed as one of boxings top contenders. He hadn't lost a fight in over 4 years and was coming off a big win over Arturo Gatti 11 months earlier. The bout took place on December 19, 1998. Mayweather won the fight by technical knockout in the second round. Mayweather would then defend his title against top contenders Carlos Rios, Justin Juuko, and Carlos Gerena. Before he fought against former WBC featherweight champion Gregorio Vargas in early 2000, Mayweather fired his father as his manager and replaced him with James Prince. A few months after the fight, the rift betwee! n the father and son became wide enough that Mayweather, Jr. f! ired May weather, Sr. as his trainer as well.[26] Roger Mayweather returned to his role as Mayweather, Jr.'s trainer in his next bout—a non-title fight against Emanuel Burton. In an interview in 2004, Mayweather, Jr. said that he loves Mayweather, Sr. as his father but feels that he has better chemistry with Roger, and his father had put too much pressure on him to be perfect.[27] Mayweather's biggest fight as a super featherweight was on January 20, 2001, against unbeaten Diego Corrales. At the time, neither fighter had been defeated or knocked down. In the bout, Mayweather won every round and knocked down Corrales five times (three times in round 7 and twice in round 10). After the fifth knockdown, Corrales' cornermen climbed onto the apron and stopped the fight, thereby establishing Mayweather as one of the claimants to boxing's mythical pound-for-pound title. At the time of the stoppage, Mayweather was way ahead on the scorecards, leading by the official tallies of 89–79, 90�! ��79, and 90–78.[28] In Mayweather's next bout, on May 26, 2001, future IBF champion Carlos "Famoso" Hernández knocked down Mayweather for the first time. Mayweather entered the bout with injured hands.[29] When Mayweather hit Hernández with a left hook in round 6, the pain caused Mayweather to drop his left hand to the canvas, and the referee called it a knockdown. Nonetheless, Mayweather won the fight by unanimous decision. The official scorecards read 119-109, 117-109, and 116-111, all in favor of Mayweather. In the award-winning[30] documentary film More Than Famous, Hernández's bout against Mayweather was prominently featured. Mayweather's last fight in the super featherweight division was against future super featherweight and lightweight champion Jesús Chávez, on November 10, 2001. It was Mayweather's eighth defe
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