Floyd Mayweather was reduced to tears during his International Boxing Hall of Fame induction speech on Sunday. The undefeated former professional boxer took two minutes to compose himself on stage before starting his emotional speech.
“I want to thank the International Boxing Hall of Fame for giving me this”, Mayweather continued. “This right here is going to my dad because he deserves it. Bernard Hopkins said it best, ‘You’ve got to earn it,’ and my dad earned this ring.
“I love my dad because, without him, this wouldn’t be possible. He’s the best trainer ever. There will never be another trainer that’s better than my dad.”
Mayweather finished his career with a perfect professional record of 50-0 and is the highest-paid boxer of all time with reported career earnings of over $800 million. Mayweather also currently sits at No 1 on the BoxRec all-time pound-for-pound list.
Three classes were inducted on Sunday after two induction weekends were cancelled, as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
Mayweather entered the modern category alongside Bernard Hopkins (2020), Juan Manuel Marquez (2020), Shane Mosley (2020), Wladimir Klitschko (2021), Andre Ward (2021), Miguel Cotto (2022), Roy Jones (2022), and James Toney (2022). The first class of women’s inductees was also entered into the modern category, including Christy Martin (2020), Lucia Rijker (2020), Laila Ali (2021), Ann Wolfe (2021), Holly Holm (2022), and Regina Halmich (2022).
Only Klitschko was unable to attend the ceremony out of the 27 fighter inductees. He is currently in Ukraine helping his brother, Vitali, a Hall of Famer himself and now the mayor of the capital city of Kyiv, defend his country against invading Russian forces.
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