Connect with us

Boxing History

That day: Floyd Mayweather was born in 1977 at the Grand Rapids, Michigan

Published

on

Floyd Mayweather

It can be safely said that Floyd Mayweather, son of former Pro Floyd SNR and the nephew of the former world champion Roger, will share their opinion.

The invincible, bold, mysterious and extremely talented “money” has dominated the boxing landscape for one reason for the last 10 years.

In the years 2009-2014 it was mostly because he and the Filipino hero of Manny Pacquiao, the two best fighters in sport, could not be signed with each other. This controversy was restricted to history. The couple finally met in 2015 at MGM Grand I, according to his word, Floyd took a clear winner within 12 rounds.

Mayweather was almost inviolable in addition to pushing the Mexican star Jose Luis Castillo (2002) in the first fight and Oscar de la Hoya (2007), in the last solid performance of the aging icon.

Sometimes Mayweather just takes your breath away. He won his first title with an eight -edge victory over the WBC Genaro Hernandez champion, and then dismantled Angel Manferedy in just two sessions. He was at his thorough, acute shooting when the Diego Corrales floor five times on the way to one of the best wins in his multi -lane career before he goes to a slight conflict with Twardy Castillo. A year later, he defeated Demarcus Corley and Henry Bruteles in the 10th eliminators of the title, before he demolished the veteran of the warrior Arturo Gatti in six rounds, exhibiting an exhibition in a acute, harmful counter -contrast.

In the welterweight, Judah was widely overtaken, just like Carlos Baldomir and in the airy of medium weight-de la Hoya underwent an early advantage and received the loss of decision-making points in the highest gross fight in the history of boxing. After the arrival of revenues from the point of view of De La Hoya, he took over $ 50 million home, while Floyd cleaned USD 25 million.

Huge payments occurred for Mayweather against Ricky Hatton, Juan Manuel Marquez, Shane Mosley and Victor Ortiz, when he was retired and beyond, appearing in the three largest wage hits invalid.

The talent that took him to the bronze medal at the Olympic Games in 1996 remained, as he calls it, years of “demanding work and dedication”.

Mayweather is a fantastic athlete and always in shape, but it’s about money. He is a highly paid mercenary who dictated, who he fought when he fought and how much his opponent paid.

“I am not fighting for heritage,” he once said, “I am not fighting for fighting for this check. I am in the Cheque industry.”

The fight against Manny Pacquiao increased both his historical position and bank balance, but when he stood in the face of a prison judgment on home battery allegations in mid -2012, a month after another stern fight, with Miguel Cotto, few thought that the fight would happen.

Nevertheless, his clash from 2013 with the extremely popular Mexican star Saul Alvarez crowned Mayweather-de la Hoya to become the highest disgusting struggle in history. Mayweather also entered the deck when he outclassed “Canelo”. His two fights with the gritty Argentine Marcos Maidana in 2014 were not so inspiring, but caused great interest in showdown with Pacquiao, which overshadowed all previous records, which even the Mayweather set.

Blockbuster struggle produced over $ 400 million of television revenues itself and attracted in the USA in the USA. According to all the account, it was a commercial hit – although many who paid for watching how he changed when Mayweather dominated his Filipino rival, just to make Pacquiao reveal that he tightened the shoulder injury during the fight.

Regardless of this, Mayweather skillfully beat the only man who approached the usurp of his pound for pounds, and thus strengthening heritage even more, which he apparently never fought.

Floyd Mayweather at that time took his eyes on a more sensitive victim. In September last year he fought from the former world champion Andre Berto – who lost three of the last six. He claims that the last fight of Mayweather was not enough to pay attention to which he got used to. As expected, he lit a berto game to make a wide decision on cards.

He razed the book of Rocky Marciano 49-0 and announced that he would put off gloves for good. However, the break did not last long. Mayweather returned in August 2017 to face Cagefighter and boxing debutant Conor McGregor in Crass, winning money as a significant boxing match. No wonder that Mayweather did, as he liked it before the extremely popular Irish UFC star was saved after 10 rounds at the T-Mobile arena in Las Vegas.

Total global revenues from the event, including ticket sales, sponsorship and international distribution, exceeded $ 600 million, which-from the Mayweather-Pacquia, were one of the most lucrative one-day sporting events in history. Mayweather included three highest earning events in history in history, and the third is Mayweather vs. Canelo from 2013.

Continue Reading
Click to comment

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Boxing History

10 times WBC changed the game

Published

on

Vitali Klitschko WBC

  1. Reduction of 15-order
    After the death of Deuk Koo Kim during the fight with Ray Mancini in 1983, WBC issued a principle that stated that the maximum distance for the fight for the championship would be 12 rounds.
  2. I weigh at least 24 hours earlier
    Due to the fears of weakening of the boxers due to the weight production process, and then the fight on the same day as the indicator, the day before the introduction of defects.
  3. Intermediate weight classes
    Sport once had only eight classes, but now it has 17 (well, 18, if you include the producing weight). WBC introduced several novel divisions, recently in weight, super-medium weight and circuitous weight.
  4. Gloves without your thumbs
    In 1983, Everlast created the first thumb glove and was accepted by WBC due to fears related to eye injuries associated with the “thumb”. Today, the thumb is attached.
  5. Doping tests
    WBC were one of the first to enforce doping tests after the fight, and in 2016 introduced their immaculate boxing program, which required the fighters to want to be classified to register in random tests.
  6. Retired
    Masters who retire, still having the title of WBC, are usually awarded with the status of a “retired”, which means that if they return, they will automatically get a shot to the current master. Vitali Klitschko [above] He started it in 2008, when he returned to defeat Samuel Piotr.
  7. Four ropes
    It often happened that boxing rings have only three ropes, but WBC made it obligatory for all rings to put up the championships that consist of four.
  8. Diamond Championships
    A bit nonsense championship that appears in the “historical” battle in the division. Manny Pacquiao won the first welterweight division when he defeated Miguel Cotto in 2009.
  9. WBC Cares
    The organization performs a significant charity work with WBC Cares, which since founded in 2006 has over 160 volunteers around the world (their British branch is managed by Scott Welch).
  10. Franchise championship
    The franchise championships, which were introduced with great mockery in 2019, are different than diamond, silver, transient titles and allows masters to move between divisions, ignoring mandatory obligations and doing almost what they like. Probably it’s best not to start with this …

Read our interview with the President of WBC Mauricio Sulaiman HERE

Continue Reading

Boxing History

The Green Man: The Pub/Boxing Gym, which attracted Tommy Farr, David Bowie and more

Published

on

Tommy Farr

Blackheath-Urocza, a wealthy, relatively deciduous part of the south-eastern London-does not have obvious boxing ties. From sport, he is best known as a starting point in the London marathon and for the apartment of the world’s oldest open rugby club. But return 60 to 90 years, and the surrounding area had a prosperous boxing gym, popular among the best characters of this sport.

The green man was a pub on Blackheath Hill with boxeria above him. He shot in importance as a boxing plant in 1937, when two world warriors, Great Britain Tommy Farr And America Petey Sarron decided to train there. The British weighty title Farr was preparing for Showdown on April 15 with Max Baer, ​​who would ultimately lead him to a heavyweight title defining the career with Joe Louis four months later. The prevailing champion of the world featherweight, Sarron, was preparing to fight with the same Survivist-first in this country-a former British Lightweight King Harry Mizler.

At the beginning of April Boxing news The columnist “The Watcher” visited Green Man Gym, and then using the boxing manager Walter Daya and the seriously striking seafarer Jim Lawlor to see Train Farr and Sarron. The banner above the door proclaiming “Tommy Farr and Petey Sarron Tround here” told him that he was in the right place. However, he arrived too overdue to see how the warriors were working and said that Farr was changing after his session.

“Tommy welcomed me warmly when I regretted that I was too overdue. Jim Lawlor was at hand and he welcomed me a lot, invited me to a cup of tea, and I was very worried about showing me. The wardrobe was equipped with a shower bath, rubbing the table and everything. Large windows overlooked Blackheath and said that here was the perfect place to prepare here. to the competition, because such a wonderful open space – and it could be high – and it could be up – and it could be up.

“Tommy finished the dressing, and then I was taken over to junior high school. A full -size and properly staged ring was erected in a roomy and well -lit room, while ordinary amenities necessary for training had a desire for training. The place was vast enough to issue the program, and Lawlor told me that they introduced several amateur shows.

“The presence of Tommy Farr and Petey Sarron will undoubtedly bring them a lot of publicity and recommendations, because in addition to the fact that the British champion was very enthusiastically focused on it, later I learned from Jimmy Erwin, the world champion manager that he was looking at all training exercises in the south of England, not finding a place that suited him better.”

In 1939, Jock McAVoy trained at Green Man-Swoim with his first training in London-his last fight with Len Harvey’s rival, in a program that set a attendance record in Great Britain over 90,000. Seventeen years later the Green Man’s gym was still busy when Dick Richardson prepared for his clash of December 1956 Nino Valdes.

In the 1960s, the pub became a popular place of music where Paul Simon, Manfred Mann, Tubby Hayes and Ronnie Scott performed. In 1963, 16-year-old David Bowie played there with his first professional band The Konrads. At this memorable concert of Bowie, until then, the saxophonist entered as the main singer, when the band’s frontman cut his foot on a broken glass in the cloakroom in a pub. Then Bowie took the position of the singer. Unfortunately, for sentimental fans of boxing or music, in 1970 a green man was demolished. Today, there is an indefinite block of flats in its place.

Continue Reading

Boxing History

Version – Marco Antonio Barrera wins a furious and electrifying rubber match over Erik Morales

Published

on

Marco Antonio Barrera

Marco Antonio Barrera in MD 12 Erik Morales
November 27, 2004; MGM Grand, Las Vegas, NV
Mexican warriors Barrera and Morales ended their epic trilogy in a properly urgent style, creating another unforgettable war. Entering in the start, in the case of the Super Feather WBC Morales belt, the series stood with one winner per item. Morales won the initial meeting in Super-Bantam in 2000, and Barrera secured the creation of a rematch in 2002 in a featherweight-the decisions were questioned. Accordingly, the verdict in the rubber match also caused a debate. As in the previous two meetings, bitter enemies got involved in a furious fight, and the electrifying 11 round turned out to be particularly cruel. Ultimately, Barrera went to the top and adapted Morales’s achievement, becoming the three world letter.

Do you know? At that time, WBO Feather Highland Scott Harrison was interested in an observer in Ringside. He hoped to catch the winner.

Watch out for: In the middle of nine, the fighters are involved in the clinch, and Barrera is bursting morale at the back of the head with a legal apparatus. Uninvited by his opponent, Morales refuses to touch Barrera gloves when the judge was asked.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctlipjgecq

Continue Reading
Advertisement

OUR NEWSLETTER

Subscribe Us To Receive Our Latest News Directly In Your Inbox!

We don’t spam! Read our privacy policy for more info.

Trending