Floyd Mayweather

Floyd Mayweather, Jr. (born February 24, 1977 in Grand Rapids, Michigan), who was born Floyd Joy Sinclair, is a professional American boxer who has a record of 39-0 (25 KOs or TKOs).
Since July 18, 2005, he has been rated by The Ring magazine as the number-one pound-for-pound boxer in the world.  Mayweather has won six world boxing championships in five different weight classes, and he is the WBC welterweight champion. He was named Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year in 1998 and 2007. He recently defeated Ricky Hatton on December 8, 2007, in a 10th round TKO.
Mayweather was also well known for competing on the fifth season of Dancing with the Stars where he was the fourth celebrity eliminated from the competiton.

Mayweather decided to relinquish his WBC junior middleweight championship and kept his WBC welterweight championship. On July 28, 2007, it was announced that Mayweather would come out of his short retirement to fight light welterweight champion Ricky Hatton which was promoted by Oscar De La Hoya's promotion company Golden Boy Promotions and Floyd Mayweather's "Mayweather Promotions." The bout was labelled "Undefeated" and took place on December 8, 2007, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas, Nevada. In the build up to their fight, Mayweather claimed that he is the greatest boxer ever, saying: "I respect what Robinson and Ali did for the sport. But I am the greatest, and this is my time."
Hatton was very aggressive early and controlled the tempo of the fight. Several observers, including the HBO announcers, thought that Hatton appeared to have the upper-hand for the first couple of rounds, because he was extremely aggresive in chasing Mayweather around the ring. However, it was Mayweather who landed most of the clean punches as Hatton could not hit Mayweather with anything significant, and the official judges scored these early rounds for Floyd. Mayweather soon adjusted to Hatton's style after the first couple of rounds and started having success pot-shotting Hatton with stiff left and right hands. Mayweather landed a straight right hand followed by near miss left hook over the top which resulted in Mayweather's on coming elbow opening a cut over Hatton's right eye in round three. Hatton had brief success in the couple of minutes of round four as he continued to apply pressure, but Mayweather landed some clean shots that hurt Hatton as the round progressed. Hatton had a stronger round five as he attempted to punish Mayweather on the ropes. Still, many of Hatton's shots were deflected or just plain missed. In the next round, referee Joe Cortez took a point from Hatton for hitting Mayweather on the back of the head. But incidently replays showed the punch never landed. From this point onwards Hatton lost his cool and ultimaltey his game plan went out the window as Mayweather sensed Hatton's composure wilting. Mayweather had a big round eight landing many clean, devastating shots and continued to pull away by outboxing Hatton in the ninth round as Hatton began to wear down. Mayweather closed the show in round ten, starting when he caught Hatton coming in with a left hook that sent him crashing head first against the padding of the corner post and flat on the canvas. Hatton got to his feet at the count of eight, and when he got up, Mayweather quickly capitalized and took advantage throwing in a couple of more shots to the face. Hatton, still dazed, took a step back and fell back down. At that moment, Joe Cortez called a halt to the action at the same time Hatton's corner threw in the towel.
After the fight, Mayweather said that Hatton was one of the toughest fighters he had ever fought, that he just kept coming and coming. He later announced that he will take a two-year layoff from boxing.
When asked whether he would consider fighting Miguel Cotto, he insisted he had achieved everything one dreams about. He stated, "I'm not going to let boxing retire me, I'll retire from boxing. I accomplished all that I could as a fighter. Now it's time to be a promoter." Two weeks after the Hatton fight, Ring Magazine named Mayweather as the fighter of the year for 2007.

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