African-American Boxers

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 224. Chapters: Floyd Mayweather, Jr., Sugar Ray Robinson, Mike Tyson, Joe Louis, Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Leonard, Archie Moore, Jack Johnson (boxer), Evander Holyfield, Zab Judah, Joe Frazier, Roy Jones, Jr., George Foreman, Sonny Liston, Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Bernard Hopkins, James Toney, Riddick Bowe, Jermain Taylor, Larry Holmes, Winky Wright, Floyd Patterson, Ken Norton, Thomas Hearns, Earnie Shavers, Shane Mosley, Hasim Rahman, Buster Douglas, Pernell Whitaker, Carter Williams, Jersey Joe Walcott, Oliver McCall, Rubin Carter, Tim Witherspoon, Michael Moorer, Chad Dawson, Michael Spinks, Antonio Tarver, Andre Berto. Excerpt: Floyd Joy Mayweather, Jr., (born Floyd Sinclair February 24, 1977) is an American professional boxer. He is a five-division world champion, who has won eight world titles and the Lineal championship in three different weight classes. Mayweather is a two-time Ring Fighter of the Year (winning the award in 1998 and 2007); he also won the Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA) Fighter of the Year award in 2007 and the Best Fighter ESPY Award in 2007, 2008, 2010 and 2012. He is undefeated as a professional boxer. Mayweather is the WBC welterweight champion, WBA (Super) light middleweight champion and recipient of the WBC diamond belt. He is also rated as the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world by many sporting news and boxing websites, including Sports Illustrated, ESPN, BoxRec, Fox Sports, and Yahoo! Sports. Mayweather topped the Forbes and Sports Illustrated lists of the 50 highest-paid athletes of 2012. Mayweather was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States into a family of boxers. His father, Floyd Mayweather Sr., was a former welterweight contender who fought Hall of Famer Sugar Ray Leonard. His uncles (Jeff Mayweather and Roger Mayweather) were professional boxers, with Roger -...