Sport and Games Atlas

How The Game Is Played
Sign In
Text size
100%
Theme
Athlete

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Combat Sports

Floyd Joy Mayweather Jr. is an American former professional boxer, born in 1977, who retired with an undefeated record of 50 wins in 50 fights across five weight divisions from super featherweight to light middleweight. He won fifteen world championships and Ring magazine titles in three weight classes, took a featherweight bronze medal at the 1996 Olympics, and was named Fighter of the Decade for the 2010s. His fights generated roughly 24 million pay per view buys and 1.67 billion dollars in revenue over his career, and he was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2021.

Facts
Birth Year
1977 1
Birth Date
1977-02-24 1
Nationality
American 1
Classification
Competition Category
Individual 1
Connections

Competed In

Source Floyd Mayweather Jr., Wikipedia

Plays

Boxing, Sports
Source Floyd Mayweather Jr., Wikipedia
In the Other Atlases

Nationality

Also in Geography Atlas: the nationality of this subject.

Source Floyd Mayweather Jr., WikipediaLead sentence 1
Quote, Lead sentence 1
Floyd Joy Mayweather Jr. (né Sinclair; born February 24, 1977) is an American professional boxer and boxing promoter.
Sources
1. Floyd Mayweather Jr., Wikipedia
  • Lead, first sentence, birth date
    Floyd Joy Mayweather Jr. (né Sinclair; born February 24, 1977) is an American professional boxer and boxing promoter.
  • Lead, first sentence, birth year
    Floyd Joy Mayweather Jr. (né Sinclair; born February 24, 1977) is an American professional boxer and boxing promoter.
  • Lead, first sentence, nationality
    Floyd Joy Mayweather Jr. (né Sinclair; born February 24, 1977) is an American professional boxer and boxing promoter.
  • Wikipedia, article summary lead
    (né Sinclair; born February 24, 1977) is an American professional boxer and boxing promoter.
  • Plays: Boxing, lead paragraph, plays
    Floyd Joy Mayweather Jr. (né Sinclair; born February 24, 1977) is an American professional boxer and boxing promoter.
  • Competed In: 1988 Summer Olympics, Lead or career section
    In his semifinal bout against eventual silver medalist Serafim Todorov of Bulgaria, Mayweather lost by a controversial decision (similar to Roy Jones Jr.'s highly controversial decision loss to Park Si-hun at the 1988 Summer Olympics).
View the Source

Take a Related Quiz

Comments (0)
No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.
Reader Challenges (0)
No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.