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}} Floyd Joy Mayweather, Jr. (born Floyd Joy Sinclair; February 24, 1977) is an American retired professional boxer. Undefeated as a professional and a five-division world champion, Mayweather won twelve world titles and the lineal championship in four different weight classes (twice in the welterweight division). He is a two-time winner of the ''Ring'' magazine Fighter of the Year award (1998 and 2007); a two-time winner of the Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA) Fighter of the Year award (2007 and 2013); and a six-time winner of the Best Fighter ESPY Award (2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, and 2014). Spike TV honored him with "The Best Ever Award" in 2015.〔http://boxingsocialist.com/news/floyd-mayweather-wins-the-best-ever-award-on-spike-tv?context=tag-boxing〕〔http://www.complex.com/sports/2015/06/spike-tv-floyd-mayweather-the-best-ever-award〕 BoxRec currently rates Mayweather as the sixth greatest pound for pound fighter of all time,〔http://boxrec.com/records〕 and the greatest pound for pound welterweight of all time.〔 Up until his retirement, Mayweather was the reigning lineal, WBC, WBA (Super), and ''The Ring'' welterweight champion, as well as the lineal, WBC, WBA (Super) and ''The Ring'' light middleweight champion. Since retiring, he has vacated all but two of these titles. Many sporting news and boxing websites rated Mayweather as the best pound for pound boxer in the world for almost ten years, including ''The Ring'', ''Sports Illustrated'', ESPN, BoxRec, Fox Sports, and Yahoo! Sports. Mayweather topped the ''Forbes'' and ''Sports Illustrated'' lists of the 50 highest-paid athletes of 2012 and 2013, and the ''Forbes'' list again in 2014 and 2015, listing him as the highest paid athlete in the world. In 2007, He founded Mayweather Promotions, his own boxing promotional firm after defecting from Bob Arum's Top Rank.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mayweather turns down $8M to fight Margarito )〕 He has a record of 26–0 (10 knockouts) in world title fights, 23–0 (9 KOs) in lineal title fights, 24–0 (7 KOs) against former or current world titlists, 12–0 (3 KOs) against former or current lineal titles, and 2–0 (1 KO) against International Boxing Hall of Fame inductees. Mayweather has generated approximately $1,311,000,000 in pay-per-view revenue and $19,530,000 in pay-per-view buys throughout his career, surpassing the likes of former top pay-per-view attractions Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield, Lennox Lewis, Oscar De La Hoya and Manny Pacquiao.〔http://boxrec.com/media/index.php?title=Human:352#Pay-Per-View_History〕 == Early life and education == Mayweather was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on February 24, 1977, into a family of boxers. His father, Floyd Mayweather Sr., was a former welterweight contender who fought Hall of Famer Sugar Ray Leonard. His uncles (Jeff Mayweather and Roger Mayweather) were professional boxers, with Roger – Floyd's former trainer – winning two world championships, fought Hall of Famers Julio César Chávez, Pernell Whitaker and Kostya Tszyu. Mayweather was born with his mother's last name, but his last name would change to Mayweather shortly thereafter Mayweather attended Ottawa Hills High School before he dropped out. Boxing has been a part of Mayweather's life since his childhood and he never seriously considered any other profession. "I think my grandmother saw my potential first," Mayweather said. "When I was young, I told her 'I think I should get a job.' She said, 'No, just keep boxing'." "When I was about eight or nine, I lived in New Jersey with my mother and we were seven deep in one bedroom and sometimes we didn't have electricity." Mayweather said. "When people see what I have now, they have no idea of where I came from and how I didn't have anything growing up." It was not uncommon for young Mayweather to come home from school and find used heroin needles in his front yard.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Floyd Mayweather Jr., Biography )〕 His mother was addicted to drugs, and he had an aunt who died from AIDS because of her drug use. "People don't know the hell I've been through," he says. The most time that his father spent with him was taking him to the gym to train and work on his boxing, according to Mayweather. "I don't remember him ever taking me anywhere or doing anything that a father would do with a son, going to the park or to the movies or to get ice cream," he says. "I always thought that he liked his daughter (Floyd's older sister) better than he liked me because she never got whippings and I got whippings all the time." Mayweather's father contends that Floyd is not telling the truth about their early relationship. "Even though his daddy did sell drugs, I didn't deprive my son," the elder Mayweather says. "The drugs I sold, he was a part of it. He had plenty of food. He had the best clothes and I gave him money. He didn't want for anything. Anybody in Grand Rapids can tell you that I took care of my kids". Floyd senior says he did all of his hustling at night and spent his days with his son, taking him to the gym and training him to be a boxer. "If it wasn't for me he wouldn't be where he is today," he maintains. "I basically raised myself," Mayweather says. "My grandmother did what she could. When she got mad at me I'd go to my mom's house. My life was ups and downs." His father says he knows how much pain his incarceration caused his son, but insists he did the best he could. "I sent him to live with his grandmother," he says. "It wasn't like I left him with strangers." Boxing became Mayweather's outlet – a way to deal with his father's absence. As the elder Mayweather served his time, his son – with speed and an uncanny ring sense – put all his energies into boxing, dropping out of high school. "I knew that I was going to have to try to take care of my mom and I made the decision that school wasn't that important at the time and I was going to have to box to earn a living," Mayweather says.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Floyd Mayweather, Jr.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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