🥊 Boxing · Super featherweight to light middleweight
United States · 1996–2017
Retired 50–0, having barely been hit.
Mayweather built a career on defence — the shoulder roll, precise distance control and an ability to read an opponent within two rounds. He retired undefeated after fifty fights across five weight classes, and became the highest-earning athlete in the world along the way.
Three-time heavyweight champion, and the most famous athlete alive for decades.
Heavyweight · 1960–1981
173 wins, and the fighter every other fighter is measured against.
Welterweight / middleweight · 1940–1965
Youngest heavyweight champion in history, at twenty.
Heavyweight · 1985–2005