The History of Boxing

Modern day boxing consists of different weight classes, such as super featherweight, lightweight and super lightweight and many more weight classes beyond these.

Believe it or not boxing is rather a old sport. Boxing started in the United States of America until the 1849. And according to www.london2012.com "boxing didn't make an appearance in the Olympics until 1904 in St. Louis". Ever since that boxing has been really huge. There are some boxers that have astounding records. Today boxers strive to be the best. But there are a few things that stand in those boxers way. If the boxers want to be the best they have to take out the best, and they have to train to be the best. That means eating healthy, training every day without any breaks, and they have to have dedication to wanting to the best.

Today there are many different promoters for the fights and some of them are Don King, and Golden Gloves and many more those were just a couple of them. Today there are a few tv channels that are known for broadcasting boxing on their tv station and they are Showtime (SHOBOX), HBO, and NBC those I think are the main tv stations that are known for having boxing.    

In my point of view I think that there are many people that have changed boxing as we know it. And those people I would have to say would be Mike Tyson, Floyd Mayweather Jr., Manny Pacquiao and Muhammad Ali, but those are the people in my point of view that have changed boxing. But other people might have their own opinion about it. But who knows there could be other professional boxers that could have changed boxing, but all I can say is that boxing is an amazing sport.




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NewsWorthy

With Floyd still in tip-top shape, even at 35 years old he is still fighting to protect his astounding record winch is 43 wins and 0 losses. Floyd doesn't just like winning in the ring. On the side Floyd is a gambling man on the side, he recently won a bet that was on the spurs vs. the LA Lakers game. The winning score was 84-81 and the spurs won, which made Floyd Mayweather Jr. $275k richer.

USA today announced:

Mayweather, who was in attendance in the Staples Center, might have been the only non spurs fan jumping for joy. It surely wasn't his biggest bet ever placed, but it was still a huge win. And this was actually a smart bet too. The Spurs are 7-1 and the Lakers obviously going through a coaching change after firing Mike Brown. That's much safer call than when Mayweather most famously lost $3million by betting on Michigan against Alabama. The Wolverines lost 44-14, but Mayweather lost a lot more.

www.usatoday.com/story/gameon/2012/11/14/floyd-mayweather-wins-275k-bet-on-spurs-lakers-Danny-green/170523



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I think that it is cool how Mayweather is willing to take risks by making bets and possibly lose all his money that he bet. Even if he didn't make any money from betting it wouldn't matter because he already has enough money to live off of, and that money he bet could very well be just his pocket change that he carries around with him.

Floyd Mayweather jr. has a foundation called the Floyd Mayweather jr. foundation. Floyd started the FMJF in 2007. The Floyd Mayweather Jr Foundation is a non-profit organization, Floyd wants to help the youth of Las Vegas.

"In 2007, Floyd decided to put to use his star power by founding FMJF, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to empower and promote the social development and advancement of struggling adults and adolescents.  The Floyd Mayweather Jr. Foundation’s focus is on: community health and wellness, economic growth and development and youth education".http://tfmjf.org/about-us/

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Mayweather jr growing up

The life of Floyd "pretty boy" "money" Mayweather jr. An American Athlete in boxing. Floyd was born in 1977 to a family of boxers, boxing was in his blood, his dad Floyd Sr. is a former welter weight contender and his uncle Jeff Mayweather is a former IBO Super Featherweight champion. Floyd was fitted for his first set of boxing gloves at the age of seven. While growing up Floyd's life wasn't normal as everybody else his dad was selling drugs.

During Floyd's high school years he lived with his mother and grandmother in Grand Rapids. When Floyd's grandma got mad he would walk to his mothers house. While growing up his dad was sent to prison for Drug trafficking, and his mother also has delt with substance abuse.

During Mayweathers amateur boxing career he was very fortunate to win the National Golden Gloves. "He won the Golden gloves in 1993, 1994, and 1996". Floyd finished his amateur boxing career with an astounding 84 wins with only 6 losses. With his amateur career finished his pre-professional career ended bitterly in Atlanta Georgia at the 1996 Olympic Games when he lost and took a bronze medal, he lost by a controversial decision.

"Mayweather started his professional boxing career in October of 1996. Mayweather continued to win at an astonishing rate. Within mayweathers first two years of becoming a professional boxer her captured his first title and it was the WBC junior lightweight championship".After that mayweathers professional career as a boxer accelerated a lot more in 2000


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