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Floyd Joy Mayweather Jr. (né Sinclair; born February 24, 1977) is an American boxing promoter and former professional boxer who competed between 1996 and 2017. He retired with an undefeated record and won 15 major world championships spanning five weight classes from super featherweight to light middleweight .
Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Phillip N'dou was a professional boxing match contested on November 1, 2003, for the WBC and The Ring lightweight titles. [ 1 ] Background
In July 1998, it was announced that reigning WBC super featherweight champion Genaro Hernández would meet undefeated up-and-comer Floyd Mayweather Jr. on October 3 that same year. The 21-year old Mayweather was less than two years into his professional career when the fight was made official but was a perfect 17–0 with 13 knockouts.
In May 2013 Floyd Mayweather Jr. confirmed via Twitter that a deal had been reached to face WBC Super welterweight champion Saúl "Canelo" Álvarez in a unification bout on September 14. [2] It would be the first defence of his Light middleweight title since he won it from Miguel Cotto in May 2012, 16 months earlier.
Originally, the Mayweather–Castillo rematch was to be the main event of a boxing card that featured WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko defending his title against Jameel McCline as the featured undercard bout. However, when Mayweather no-showed a press conference promoting the card three days before the event, Arum, having tired of ...
Floyd Mayweather Jr. had made his debut at super lightweight eight months prior on May 22, 2004, defeating DeMarcus Corley in a WBC super lightweight title eliminator to become the WBC's number-one contender and mandatory challenger to super lightweight champion Arturo Gatti, whom Mayweather had heavily pursued. [2]
Mayweather expressed interest in facing the soon-to-be-WBC super lightweight champion Arturo Gatti, and negotiations began in February 2004 to designate a fight between Mayweather and former IBF lightweight champion Paul Spadafora, who was also moving up in weight, as a WBC super lightweight title eliminator with the winner becoming the ...
Immediately following his eighth successful title defense over Jesús Chávez in November 2001, reigning WBC super featherweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. announced that after 27 fights in the division, the Chávez fight would be his last as a super featherweight and he would be moving up to lightweight to challenge the WBC lightweight champion José Luis Castillo.