Talk:Floyd Mayweather Jr.

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124.29.207.238 (talk) 10:38, 20 July 2017 (UTC)

 Not done you have made no specific request, but appear to be trying to add a spam-link - Arjayay (talk) 11:49, 20 July 2017 (UTC)

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86.176.207.70 (talk) 01:47, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

Would suggest changing "spends $1,000 on a haircut at least two times in a week" to "spends $1,000 on a haircut at least two times a week"

Done jd22292 (Jalen D. Folf) (talk) 19:05, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

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The first sentence of the article reads "Floyd Joy Mayweather...is an American professional boxer and promoter; widely considered one of the greatest boxers of all time." One rule with semicolons is that they unite two in-sentence clauses that, on their own, could be complete sentences. At Semicolon#Usage, the three relevant examples ("My wife would like tea", etc.) all contain clauses that would work as separate sentences. In this case, "widely considered one of the greatest boxers of all time" has no subject so this construct is grammatically incorrect. The semicolon should be replaced with "who is" although replacing it with a comma or adding "he is" after the semicolon would also work. 2602:306:BC31:4AA0:480B:1D12:4102:2962 (talk) 17:56, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

Done jd22292 (Jalen D. Folf) (talk) 19:06, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

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A few more semicolon issues.

• Second paragraph: "Many sporting news and boxing websites ranked Mayweather as the best boxer in the world, pound for pound, twice in a span of ten years; including The Ring, Sports Illustrated, ESPN, BoxRec, Fox Sports, and Yahoo! Sports." That semicolon needs to be a comma because the second clause wouldn't be a complete sentence.

• Third paragraph: "As of his most recent fight in 2015, Mayweather has a record of 26 wins without a loss or draw in world title fights (10 by KO); 23 wins (9 KOs) in lineal title fights; 24 wins (7 KOs) against former or current world titlists; 12 wins (3 KOs) against former or current lineal champions; and 2 wins (1 KO) against International Boxing Hall of Fame inductees." Semicolons are only supposed to separate items in lists when at least one clause contains a comma. The list of clauses starts after "Mayweather has a record of" and there aren't any commas there. All four semicolons should be commas.

2602:306:BC31:4AA0:480B:1D12:4102:2962 (talk) 18:47, 17 August 2017 (UTC)

• Second paragraph: that's a whole load of commas due to the inclusion of "pound for pound", which is why I threw in the semicolon to break up the list of publications beginning from The Ring. I forget which WP:MOS says it, but I remember it saying semicolons are acceptable in that context. Either that, or the whole sentence could be reworded somehow. *edit* It might be the fifth example here.

• Third paragraph: now amended. Mac Dreamstate (talk) 18:58, 17 August 2017 (UTC)

@Mac Dreamstate: I think the issue is with the unusual construct where "pound for pound" is used after the words "boxer," "fighter," etc. and not immediately before. To me, "best boxer, pound for pound," just doesn't read right compared to "best pound for pound boxer" and if we swapped, that's two unwieldy commas removed. We obviously can't call Mayweather "best" without clarifying that he probably wouldn't beat Tyson Fury but the text making that point, "pound for pound," is separated from "best" by other words, creating a confusing distance between them. The same thing sort of happens when there's a bunch of text between "Many sporting news and boxing websites" and the actual list of those websites.

Here's a reworded version:

• "Many sporting news and boxing websites, including The Ring, Sports Illustrated, ESPN, BoxRec, Fox Sports, and Yahoo! Sports, ranked Mayweather as the best pound for pound boxer in the world twice in a span of ten years."

Or if that's a little too passive voice-ish, here's another one:

• "Mayweather was ranked the best pound for pound boxer in the world twice in a span of ten years by many sporting news and boxing websites, including The Ring, Sports Illustrated, ESPN, BoxRec, Fox Sports, and Yahoo! Sports."

I guess I'd go with the first one because the second doesn't do a great job addressing your concern about comma overload. 2602:306:BC31:4AA0:480B:1D12:4102:2962 (talk) 19:37, 17 August 2017 (UTC)

Done jd22292 (Jalen D. Folf) (talk) 19:56, 17 August 2017 (UTC)

Here's the thing, the concept of a "pound for pound boxer"—worded like a noun—sounds very clunky to me. We can have a professional boxer, a world champion boxer, a former boxer, a greatest boxer.. but a "pound for pound boxer" just doesn't read right. Pound for pound is a concept all on its own, and it's the reason a lot of articles' lead sections have adopted the term as an adjective instead—"world's third best boxer, pound for pound", etc. Just to make it clear, I didn't come up with the aforementioned wording, but I liked how it looked at the time and subsequently ran with it. Mac Dreamstate (talk) 20:29, 17 August 2017 (UTC)

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Please edit the following to revert what appears to be trolling.

Under the section "Pay-per-view bouts", where it shows the fight of Mayweather vs. McGregor, it says the A.K.A. name of the fight. It's suppose to be called "The Money Fight" however it says "The Joke of Saturday night" --RichardFry (talk) 22:34, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

 Done. Mac Dreamstate (talk) 22:37, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

Thank you! --RichardFry (talk) 18:32, 26 August 2017 (UTC)

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his weight is 149 1/2 lbs as of August 26, 2017 from the fight when he was weighed. Wiki232017 (talk) 00:10, 27 August 2017 (UTC)

 Not done Please provide a reliable source for the changes you would like to be made. SparklingPessimist ^{Scream at me!} 00:14, 27 August 2017 (UTC)

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Change Mayweather's fight record to 50-0 with 27 KO's. Sstarner (talk) 16:29, 27 August 2017 (UTC)

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. SparklingPessimist ^{Scream at me!} 16:35, 27 August 2017 (UTC)

Since he has retired again, how about Category:Undefeated world boxing champions then?

 Done – re-added category. Mac Dreamstate (talk) 19:26, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

Estrangement of Mayweather Jr. and Sr. by Jon Saraceno, June 26, 2005, USA Today. == This link is broken. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 180.29.10.85 (talk) 02:36, 15 November 2024 (UTC)

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i wonder why this isn't register as exhibition fight, cause i dont think conor was ranked by any sanctioning body and i dont think the fight was sanctioned as ordinary fight Meni111 (talk) 11:35, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

It was sanctioned as a standard professional boxing match according to the NSAC and WBC. Mac Dreamstate (talk) 16:51, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

ok thanksMeni111 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 15:31, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

I recently had a look at the coverage of the Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao fight on both the Boxing career of Manny Pacquiao page and this page, and I couldn't help but notice that both pages cover the event very differently. I am not saying either page is wrong or should be fixed, but perhaps some neutral/uninvolved experts on the subject could have a look and try to edit these two sections so that the Wikipedia descriptions of the same event on different pages do not contradict one another? It seems to me that the coverage on the Pacquiao page is clearly favourable to Pacquiao, and this page is favourable to Mayweather. I neither know enough about the fight or the editing conventions for this kind of stuff on Wikipedia to know what to do, but I will write this here and a similar message on the Mayweather page and hopefully the Wikipedia community will be able to sort it out. GeorgmentO (talk) 23:01, 6 April 2018 (UTC)

Under the Mayweather vs. Mcgregor section, the page incorrectly states the Mayweather vs Pacquiao occurred in 2014, but it took place on May 2, 2015. ```` — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bankshot49er (talk • contribs) 23:11, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

 Done – Corrected year. Mac Dreamstate (talk) 18:14, 30 December 2018 (UTC)

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"His maternal grandfather was born in Kingston, Jamaica." (via Spencer Fearon interview with Mayweather's mother) (44 second clip) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEAIWUxecvk User1678 (talk) 11:08, 19 January 2019 (UTC)

 Not done: Not all verifiable information must be included in an article. I think this is too fine a detail for this article. If a consensus of editors supports its addition, then it can be added to the article. Thanks, ‑‑ElHef (Meep?) 18:45, 20 January 2019 (UTC)

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HaringDaviid (talk) 06:49, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

and flyod is a runner a professional runner

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. – Jonesey95 (talk) 07:13, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

Why is there almost no information about his private life? Other wikipedia entries have information about the private life of other boxers. 2A02:8388:1641:8380:1535:595B:9280:DF61 (talk) 03:30, 3 June 2020 (UTC)

Check the current rankings. https://boxrec.com/en/ratings?r%5Brole%5D=proboxer&r%5Bsex%5D=M&r%5Bdivision%5D=&r%5Bcountry%5D=&r%5Bstance%5D=&r%5Bstatus%5D=&r_go=