American professional boxing promoter and former professional boxer Floyd Joy Mayweather Jr.
was born Floyd Joy Sinclair on February 24, 1977, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Mayweather is known as the
best defensive boxer of boxing history, who won fifteen major world titles throughout his career.
He was named "Fighter of the Decade" for the 2010s by the Boxing Writers
Association of America, and was the highest paid athlete in the world in 2014 and 2015. As of 2020,
Mayweather was ranked second on Ranker's list of best boxers of the 21st century.
Mayweather was born into a family of boxers. His father, Floyd Mayweather Sr.,
was a former welterweight contender and his uncles Jeff and Roger were also professional boxers.
His dad sold drugs and Maywaether had been through a huge dilemma in his early His life.
mother, Deborah Sinclair, was a drug addict. Mayweather was born with his mother's last name,
but his last name would change to Mayweather shortly thereafter.
There were seven siblings of him, living in a single bedroom with no electricity sometimes.
Mayweather's father and uncles used to take him to the gym and train him for boxing,
and it has been a part of his life that he never thought of any other profession ever since.
Mayweather was in relationship with his late ex-girlfriend, former reality star Josie Harris,
from 1995 to 2007. Together they have two sons, Koraun and Zion, and a daughter named Jirah.
Floyd also has a daughter named Iyanna and a son,
Devion Cromwell, with his ex-girlfriend television star Melissa Brim.
Floyd is currently in relationship with Instagram model Gallienne Nabila.
They are rumored to be engaged in 2019.
Mayweather earned the nickname “Pretty Boy” during his amateur career because of his unmarked face.
He won the national Golden Gloves in 1993, 1994, and 1996 but ended his amateur career
on a sour note at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, where he lost a controversial decision and had to
settle for a bronze medal in the featherweight division. He turned pro on October 11, 1996.
During his career, Floyd won fifteen major world titles including The Ring in five weight classes,
the lineal championship in four weight classes, and retired with an undefeated record. Mayweather
was named "Fighter of the Decade" for the 2010s by the Boxing Writers Association of America,
a two-time winner of The Ring magazine's Fighter of the Year award, a three-time winner of the
BWAA Fighter of the Year award, and a six-time winner of the Best Fighter ESPY Award. In 2016,
Mayweather was ranked by ESPN as the greatest boxer, pound for pound, of the last 25 years.
As of July 2020, BoxRec ranks him number two fighter of all time, pound for pound. In 2020,
Mayweather was ranked second on Ranker's list of best boxers of the 21st century.
Mayweather is often referred to as the best defensive boxer in history, as well as being
the most accurate puncher since the existence of CompuBox, having the highest plus–minus ratio
in recorded boxing history. Mayweather is also one of the most lucrative pay-per-view
attractions of all time, in any sport. He topped the Forbes and Sports Illustrated lists of the
50 highest-paid athletes of 2012 and 2013, and the Forbes list again in both 2014 and 2015,
listing him as the highest paid athlete in the world. In 2006,
he founded his own boxing promotional firm, Mayweather Promotions. He has generated
approximately 24 million PPV buys and $1.67 billion in revenue throughout his career.
Floyd Mayweather's net worth of 2020 is estimated to be at least $560 million.
Floyd Mayweather resides in Las Vegas, in a single-story house
of approximately 22,000-square-foot. The single-story house consists of 11 bedrooms,
14 bathrooms, two guest houses, indoor and outdoor pools and two detached garages.
Floyd Maywaether's collection of luxury cars is extensive and extravagant, to say
the least. Here are the three most expensive. It's highly unlikely that Floyd Mayweather can
pronounce the name of his Koenigsegg CCXR Trevita, but he still went ahead and bought it.
The cars cost $4.8 million, and they're the most expensive in the boxer’s garage.
Mayweather, in his customary fashion, was one of the few people to first own the Bugatti Chiron,
one of the fastest supercars in the world. He paid $3.5 million in cash for this one.
Floyd is one of the few owners of the limited edition of Aston Martin One-77.
This is a fine piece of art, which costs a whopping $2.4 million dollars,
and Mayweather might've paid in excess of $3 million to get one since it's a limited edition.
The retired boxer's jet appears to be a Gulfstream G650, which has a $60 million
price tag. He got the new jet for his 41st birthday and dubbed it "Air Mayweather."