In 2006, he founded his own boxing promotional firm, Mayweather Promotions, after leaving Bob Arum's Top Rank. He topped the Forbes and Sports Illustrated lists of the 50 highest-paid athletes of 20, and the Forbes list again in both 20, as the highest-paid athlete in the world. Mayweather is one of the most lucrative pay-per-view attractions of all time, in any sport. He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in the class of 2021. He has a record of 26 consecutive wins in world title fights (10 by KO), 23 wins (9 KOs) in lineal title fights, 24 wins (7 KOs) against former or current world titlists, 12 wins (3 KOs) against former or current lineal champions, and 5 wins (1 KO) against International Boxing Hall of Fame inductees. He is often referred to as the best defensive boxer in history: since the existence of CompuBox, Mayweather is the most accurate puncher among professional boxers, having the highest plus–minus ratio in recorded boxing history. Many sporting news and boxing websites, including The Ring, Sports Illustrated, ESPN, BoxRec, Fox Sports, and Yahoo! Sports, ranked Mayweather as the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world twice in a span of ten years. As of May 2023, BoxRec ranks him the second greatest boxer of all time, pound for pound. In 2016, ESPN ranked him the greatest boxer, pound for pound, of the last 25 years.
Mayweather was named "Fighter of the Decade" for the 2010s by the Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA), a two-time winner of The Ring magazine's Fighter of the Year award (19), a three-time winner of the BWAA Fighter of the Year award (2007, 2013, and 2015), and a six-time winner of the Best Fighter ESPY Award (2007–2010, 2012–2014). Golden Gloves championships (at light flyweight, flyweight, and featherweight), and the U.S.
As an amateur, he won a bronze medal in the featherweight division at the 1996 Olympics, three U.S. This includes the Ring magazine title in five weight classes and the lineal championship in four weight classes (twice at welterweight). He retired with an undefeated record and won 15 major world championships from super featherweight to light middleweight. ( né Sinclair February 24, 1977) is an American boxing promoter and former professional boxer who competed between 19.
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