Floyd Mayweather Jr.

The world's richest boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr., born on February 24, 1977, is Michigan, northeast of the United States. Floyd has won all the tournaments he has participated in during his career. He was one of the best boxers in history, having never suffered a single defeat during his entire career until he announced his retirement on September 12, 2015.

Quick Bio

Floyd grew up in a boxing-loving family. There were many professional boxers from his family, for example, his father, Floyd Mayweather Sr., who was the legendary boxer's opponent Ray Leonard on the World Boxing Championship final.

Boxing was a key part of this boxer's life. He said that the first to see his boxing skills was his grandmother, who insisted on continuing to boxing instead of looking for a routine job.

When he was eight, he lived with his mother in New Jersey in one room with seven of his brothers, and this shows how much he suffered at the beginning of his life.

In addition, his mother was addicted to drugs and his aunt died of AIDS as a result of her drug use, it was life like hell when he was young.

But all this did not stop him from practicing and practicing boxing. His father continued his training at the boxing club instead of spending time doing anything else.

Boxing career

It was Floyd's first official meeting on October 11, 1996, when he faced rising boxer Roberto Apodaca at this time and won by knockout during the second round.

In 1998, defending champion Ali Hernandez won the knockout, ranking the weight above the badminton.

One of Floyd's most famous is the face of boxing champion Diego Corrales. Floyd won all the rounds and dropped Diego five times until the Diego coach intervened and stopped.