Floyd Mayweather: Record, Age, Height and Full Fight List

Floyd Mayweather Jr. is an American professional boxer who retired in 2017 with a record of 50 wins and no defeats, having won world titles in five weight classes between 1998 and 2015. He is the only boxer in history to reach fifty professional fights without a loss or a draw. At 49 he is preparing to put that record back on the line.

For most of his career the number was the argument. Supporters pointed at the zero, critics pointed at the names beside it, and the noise around the man tended to drown out what he was actually doing inside the ropes. What follows is the career as the record shows it: all fifty fights, the divisions he moved through, the defensive system he built, and where things stand in the autumn of 2026.

• Floyd Joy Mayweather Jr. was born on February 24, 1977 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and turned professional on October 11, 1996.
• His professional record is 50 wins, 0 losses and 0 draws, with 27 wins by stoppage.
• He won 15 major world titles across five weight divisions, from super featherweight up to light middleweight.
• His last completed professional bout was a tenth round stoppage of Conor McGregor on August 26, 2017.
• He is alive, and as of August 31, 2026 he is signed to a professional rematch with Manny Pacquiao scheduled for September 2026.

Boxing Gear

Who is Floyd Mayweather?

Floyd Mayweather Jr. is a retired American world champion boxer who built a 50 fight professional career without a single defeat, and who has since become one of the highest earning athletes the sport has produced. He fought from 1996 to 2017, held 15 major world titles, and moved through five weight classes without ever being outweighed into a bad night.

His significance rests on two things that do not usually sit together. The first is longevity at the top: he beat champions across three decades of the sport, from Genaro Hernández in 1998 to Manny Pacquiao in 2015, and the level of opposition rose rather than fell as he aged. The second is the way he won. Mayweather was a defensive specialist in an era that rewarded volume, and he made a career out of being difficult to hit cleanly for twelve rounds.

Short answer: he is the only professional boxer to finish fifty bouts unbeaten, and the record still stands as of August 2026.

Early life and background

Mayweather was born into the trade. His father, Floyd Mayweather Sr., was a welterweight who lost to Sugar Ray Leonard by knockout in 1978. His uncle Roger Mayweather held world titles at super featherweight and light welterweight. There was never a moment where the family sat him down and asked whether he wanted to try boxing.

Grand Rapids and a house built around the gym

He grew up in and around Grand Rapids, Michigan, and boxing was the constant. He was in gyms from early childhood and worked under his father and his uncles rather than through a school or club programme. The amateur career ran long enough and well enough to put him on the United States team for Atlanta at 19.

The 1996 Olympics and the Todorov decision

Mayweather won a bronze medal in the featherweight division at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, losing a contested semi final decision to Bulgaria's Serafim Todorov. The scoring in that bout was disputed at the time and remains the reference point for people who argue his amateur career ended a medal short of where it should have. It is also the last time an official decision went against him in any ring.

He turned professional five months later, at 19, signing to fight at super featherweight rather than chasing the heavier divisions where the money already was.

Professional career

The career splits cleanly into three phases, and they are not evenly weighted. The first six years were a climb. The middle stretch was a series of division changes. The last decade was the pay-per-view era, when Mayweather became the business as well as the fighter.

The super featherweight climb, 1996 to 2001

Mayweather debuted on October 11, 1996 with a second round stoppage of Roberto Apodaca, then fought seventeen more times in under two years. His first world title came in his eighteenth bout, when he stopped Genaro Hernández in eight rounds on October 3, 1998 to take the WBC super featherweight belt at 21 years old.

The defining fight of the period was against Diego Corrales on January 20, 2001. Corrales was unbeaten, taller, and widely fancied to be the man who would finally give Mayweather trouble. Mayweather dropped him five times and stopped him in the tenth, and did it without taking meaningful punishment. That performance, more than any belt, is what moved him from prospect to problem.

Through lightweight and light welterweight, 2002 to 2005

He moved up and took the WBC lightweight title from José Luis Castillo in April 2002 by unanimous decision. That fight is the one honest gap in the perfect record. Castillo pressed him hard, several observers scored it the other way, and Mayweather has acknowledged fighting with a shoulder problem. He took the immediate rematch eight months later and won it more clearly, which is the part of the story usually left out.

Two more divisions followed. He took the WBC light welterweight title by stopping Arturo Gatti in six rounds in June 2005, in a fight that showed the gulf between a good pressure fighter and a great counter puncher.

The welterweight and pay-per-view era, 2006 to 2017

Welterweight is where the career became an industry. Wins over Zab Judah and Carlos Baldomir in 2006 established him at 147 pounds. The split decision over Oscar De La Hoya in May 2007 broke pay-per-view records and made him the sport's biggest draw. He then beat Ricky Hatton, Juan Manuel Márquez, Shane Mosley, Victor Ortiz, Miguel Cotto, Canelo Álvarez, Marcos Maidana twice, Manny Pacquiao and Andre Berto.

The Pacquiao fight on May 2, 2015 arrived roughly five years after the public wanted it, and Mayweather won a clear unanimous decision that most viewers found less exciting than the build up promised. He retired after outpointing Berto that September, then returned once in 2017 to stop Conor McGregor in a bout between a boxer and a mixed martial artist making his professional boxing debut.

Floyd Mayweather fight record

The shape of the record matters more than the total. Twenty seven of the fifty wins came by stoppage, but almost all of those arrived in the first half of the career: after the Ricky Hatton stoppage in December 2007, Mayweather went to the scorecards in nine of his last eleven bouts. The level also rose late rather than early, which is the reverse of the usual pattern for an ageing fighter.

Opponent names below are listed as they appear on the official record.

Fighting style and technique

Mayweather fought out of an orthodox stance at 173 cm with a 183 cm reach, which is long for the divisions he campaigned in. His approach was built on not being there, and it worked because his defence generated offence rather than simply avoiding it.

The shoulder roll, and what people get wrong about it

His signature look was the Philly shell, a guard with the lead shoulder raised, the lead arm across the body and the rear hand at the cheek. The common error is calling it a Mayweather invention. It is an old Philadelphia gym posture that Floyd Sr. and Roger both used, and Mayweather inherited it rather than designed it.

What he added was the timing. The raised shoulder deflects the opponent's straight right, and the roll that follows loads his own right hand from a position where the opponent's guard is already committed. Fighters who pressed him were not simply missing. They were feeding him.

The lead right hand and the check hook

Against pressure fighters Mayweather led with the right hand rather than the jab, a low percentage punch for most boxers that worked for him because his opponents were walking onto it. Against fighters who charged in straight lines he used a check hook, pivoting away while landing, which is how Ricky Hatton ended up on the canvas in the tenth round in 2007.

The honest limitation is that it was a system built on speed and reflex, both of which decline. Castillo in 2002 and Maidana in their first fight in 2014 both had success by crowding him and refusing to lead into the shoulder, and both fights were closer than the surrounding hype suggested.

The Mayweather corner: Floyd Sr. and Roger

Two men trained Floyd Mayweather Jr. for almost his entire career, and they coached him differently. Floyd Mayweather Sr., his father, is a defensive technician who built the shell and the footwork. Roger Mayweather, his uncle, was the more aggressive teacher, pushing combinations and the lead right, and he held the corner for most of the championship years including the De La Hoya and Hatton fights.

Roger Mayweather died on March 17, 2020 at the age of 58. He had held two world titles of his own, at super featherweight and light welterweight, and was named trainer of the year in 2007. Floyd Sr. returned as head trainer for the later part of the career and worked the corner for the Pacquiao and Berto fights.

The family also built the business. Mayweather Promotions was founded in 2007 and The Money Team followed as the brand around it, which is why the initials TMT appear on the gear in almost every photograph from the second half of the career.

Floyd Mayweather's children and personal life

Floyd Mayweather Jr. has four children: Koraun, Iyanna, Zion and Jirah. He has never married, which is the direct answer to a question a large number of people type every month.

Beyond that, this article does not go. Mayweather's private life has generated a great deal of coverage of varying reliability, and material that is not documented by a source with editorial standards has no place on a reference page about a living person.

What Floyd Mayweather is doing now

Short answer: Floyd Mayweather is alive, is 49 years old, and is scheduled to return to professional boxing against Manny Pacquiao in September 2026.

The periodic reports of his death are a hoax. They follow a pattern common to celebrity death rumours online, they have never been carried by any outlet with editorial standards, and they are contradicted by his continuous public activity, including the promotion of the fight described below.

Between 2018 and 2025 he fought a series of exhibition bouts, none of which counted on his professional record. The September 2026 bout is different. Pacquiao's team stated in April 2026 that Mayweather had formally agreed the rematch would be a sanctioned professional contest rather than an exhibition, which means the 50-0 record is genuinely at stake for the first time since 2017.

The scheduling has moved more than once and should be treated as provisional. The bout was announced on February 23, 2026 for September 19 at the Sphere in Las Vegas, then relocated on April 30 and rescheduled on May 8 to September 26, with the Las Vegas venue still unconfirmed as of August 31, 2026. Netflix is the announced broadcaster.

Titles and achievements

Mayweather won 15 major world titles across five weight classes. The spread across divisions is the part that resists argument: he started at 130 pounds and finished at 154, a 24 pound climb, and he won a recognised world title at every stop. The full ladder of divisions and their limits is set out in our guide to boxing weight classes.

Alongside the belts sit an Olympic bronze medal from Atlanta in 1996 and, on the commercial side, top place on the Forbes list of the world's highest paid athletes in 2015, when the magazine put his earnings for the year at 300 million dollars, and again in 2018.

Sources used for this article: Olympedia for the Olympic result, BoxRec and Tapology for the professional record, and CNN for the death of Roger Mayweather. The record was verified on August 31, 2026.