Here are the secrets of Floyd Mayweather's success!
7 - Raw talent
Let's be for real.
If you have ever seen the art of Mayweather boxing, you've seen the ridiculous hand
speed and quickness that he was born with.
In fact, he's so good at boxing, it's just boring to watch him fight since his defense
is impeccable.
The talent that he was born with is undeniable, and his family could see the potential in
him from since he was a little kid.
He has a knack for escaping all the blows from his opponents.
His quickness in his lateral movements have contributed to him not catching many punishing
hits throughout his fights.
But the Mayweather we all know today, has walked a long road to get where he is.
His talent was spotted early on and nurtured appropriately.
If you didn't know, Mayweather was born nto 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 – Floyd's
former trainer – winning two world championships.
Boxing has been around the Mayweathers.
Boxing has been a part of Mayweather's life since his childhood and he never seriously
considered any other profession.
He credits his grandmother as seeing his talent first; Mayweather has said that she discouraged
him from getting a job and encouraged him to keep boxing.
Hey, you really can't argue with that logic; when a certain trade has been running through
your family, and you have a chance to make hundreds of millions through that craft, it'd
be worth it to take a chance even if the odds are still stacked against you.
Floyd eventually took his grandmother's word to heart and dropped out of high school
to try and develop the talent that he was born with to its fullest.
6 - Unbelievable work ethic
Of course, talent alone can't take you to the top.
Floyd Mayweather fans and haters alike can all agree on one thing – there's no denying
his incessant, intense work ethic to becoming a stronger, smarter and better boxer.
To be honest, it's pretty much an obsession.
Mayweather may sometimes portray a party bachelor lifestyle, but behind the scenes he's a
true machine and sets a very high standard of hard work for himself that's just ridiculously
hard for his peers to follow.
His discipline is constant; he trains like a man possessed and eats a very strict diet.
Also, even though he's popping bottles and making it rain at different clubs, he doesn't
drink alcohol.
He just doesn't gain lots of weight in-between fights like most other boxers do.
Mayweather is also a lifelong student of boxing, constantly tweaking, improving, analyzing
his techniques and strategies, and bettering himself in and out of the ring.
His fluidity and ability to continually adapt is a huge reason why he has stayed at the
very top of his game for so long.
Again, natural talent obviously is a big part of the equation in Mayweather's excellence,
but to reduce his success to natural ability, is to do a massive disservice to the man's
ability to simply work harder than any other contemporary boxer.
Talent is no more than an opportunity, and in Mayweather's case, it's an opportunity
that is he's grabbing and cultivating daily.
Mayweather sees boxing as his chosen profession, and he works tirelessly at it.
Above all else, Mayweather is a rational thinker.
He's smart and enlists a strategy that has pretty much proven to be unbeatable: don't
get hit by your opponents, and hit your opponents when you have a chance.
Simple as that.
He works on his technique regularly and combines his sheer ability with his intellect to outthink,
outmaneuver and outdo his competition.
Simply put, Floyd Mayweather has dedicated his life to the sport he loves and enhanced
his near flawless physical and mental abilities, which, in combination, have never been outdone.
Yeah, I know some of you will make comments about me mentioning Mayweather's intelligence.
While it's true that he's said, and done, some questionable things in the past, it'd
be a mistake to underestimate how smart Mayweather is.
More about Mayweather's mind and strategy later.
Mayweather has won fight after fight because he has mastered boxing better than anyone
else – there is no secret recipe to that.
He has put in countless hours in boxing.
He's yet to battle an opponent that has been able to outbox him in a fight.
Floyd Mayweather is quite simply put, one of the greatest boxers ever.
The truth is the only time when someone will catch up to Mayweather is when Father Time
catches up to him.
Mayweather has figured out and implemented the perfect formula for success.
He minimizes his mistakes and maximizes the opportunities his opponents have for mistakes.
He uses tactics specific to his opponent's fighting style, knowing their weaknesses and
exploiting them.
He brings out the worst in his competitors and takes advantage of it.
All of this takes homework.
Serious studying and training tailored for specific opponents.
The fact is that no fighter is likely to beat Mayweather in the near future.
As long as he keeps on training the way that he has and stays laser focused the way that
he has, he will remain ahead of the game.
Excellence is a continual habit, not a one time event.
The only way to beat Mayweather is to out-train him, outthink him and out-endure him.
Basically, it's gonna take someone who was born with greater talent, AND the willingness
to make major sacrifices in their life like Mayweather to be able to beat Mayweather.
5 - Battle Tested
Taking punches is nothing new for the world champ.
He has been dealing with some pretty tough conditions his whole life.
Floyd's father, was a small-town drug dealer and amateur boxer.
Displays of violence and intimidation was always part of Mayweather's life.
Floyd senior did what he had to do to put food of the table, and generally there was
food on the table, but that doesn't mean that things were ever easy.
Sometimes, it's a hidden blessing to have gone through struggle because you find out
what you're made of and you know what you can handle in the future.
When you're born with a silver spoon in your mouth and you've never been put to
the test, sometimes you just don't know what it actually takes for success.
Floyd Jr. talks of experiences of when he was about eight or nine when he was living
in New Jersey with his mother.
He said that at times there were living with up to seven people living in one bedroom and
that there was often no electricity.
Security and comfort were a couple things that Floyd Mayweather had to literally fight
for to get in life.
Early exposure to violence and hardship are definitely not things that you need in order
to be successful.
Nor am I trying to glorify the hardships of the Mayweather family.
There are plenty of successful boxers, and just successful people who came from comfortable,
conventional homes.
But Floyd Mayweather wasn't one of them, and like I said before, struggle can be a
blessing as you're put through a multitude of tests that all people who are self-made
have gone through.
His difficult childhood almost definitely had a hand to play in making him one of the
most determined, toughest boxers the world has ever seen.
4 - Personal philosophy
Floyd has an ability to see things in an isolated way.
When it comes to training, he often talks about a one day at a time type of philosophy.
Don't be too quick to dismiss this as motivational cliché though.
Because to be honest, if you need motivation in something, it just means you don't really
want it.
Floyd really believes in taking one day at a time, and you can't argue with the results.
Every day of training is a new day; yesterday's hard work is irrelevant.
All that matters is that today has to be a great day of training…and as hard as possible.
The same goes for the punches.
Every punch counts.
When it comes to punches connected, Floyd is the top professional boxer, landing 42%
of his punches thrown.
Furthermore, his plus/minus average of 24% is also tops amongst active boxers.
That number represents the amount of punches he lands subtracted from the amount his opponent
does.
Those are difficult numbers to beat.
The moral of the story is that efficiency wins.
Floyd calculates every move, both in and out of the ring.
A fighter might get a lucky break, throw a lucky punch, or use gimmicks or fancy tactics
to win occasionally.
Greatness, however, can only be achieved with solid fundamentals.
In boxing, it's about two things - hitting and getting hit.
Floyd excels on both accounts and the numbers don't lie.
Floyd has developed his own style of training when it comes to hitting the mitts, Mayweather
style.
It's a complex practice of ducking and bobbing and endless punches and combinations.
So Floyd does lots of fancy training combinations and makes his mitt training into a sort of
rhythmic dance, so what?
It's that exact point, his training and style, where the secret to boxing, and general
overall success, is.
Being perfect and yet fluid at the same time.
You can't just simply repeat the same moves in boxing.
Your opponent is studying you and he's also dynamic and ever changing.
Training with complexity in mind, like the Mayweather style on the mitts, doesn't allow
for Floyd to lose focus for one second.
How you train matters and Floyd shows us that practice makes perfect, and you have to be
consistently on your toes, no matter your craft.
3 - The Right Team - TMT
Who's in The Money Team?
There are computer techs and college graduates and photographers and businessmen.
There are massive bodyguards earning 150k a year to protect the pound-for-pound king
of the ring.
There are boxing insiders who sometimes receive diamond-studded platinum watches as bonuses.
There are Mayweather's family members, such as his uncle John Sinclair, the camp masseur.
There are his old friends such as assistant trainer Nate Jones, Mayweather's 1996 U.S.
Olympic teammate.
What they aren't, is a bunch of unemployable do-nothings as some people have suggested.
They are a team, and they keep Mayweather the man, as well as the The Money Team brand
going.
Remember, this guy is a multimillion dollar industry, the entourage isn't just for show.
These are the people that help Mayweather run his businesses and allow him to focus
on the boxing.
While the vast majority of us will never need a huge entourage such as Mayweather so he
can completely immerse in his craft, what we can learn from him is to keep our life
as efficient as possible so that we can focus on the things that are important to us.
That and the fact that it's extremely important to watch who you keep around you.
Mayweather has said that his employees would go to war for him, and while that's something
quite debatable, what's not is the duties they do have to do for him.
The duties are quite intimate, such as his personal barber who shaves his head two to
three times a week, as well as lucrative.
Hey, those shaves go for 1000 bucks each!
2 - Marketing Skills
Mayweather has broken countless records.
He makes sure that he makes all of his statistics and records an integral part of his personal
brand.
This way he gets to increase his leverage in negotiations about fees and other demands.
But the "undefeated" label is just the top layer of that huge money-bag.
Floyd understands how to maximize opportunities while in the moment.
He also understands that the spotlight shines just as bright on a villain as it does on
a hero.
Sure, Mayweather is polarizing; you either love him or you hate him, but he planned it
that way.
When he was Pretty Boy Floyd, no one wanted to watch his fights, but once he became the
villain Money Mayweather, all of a sudden everyone wanted to watch him get his face
beaten in and he was absolutely fine with that.
Mayweather fully understands that fans can be just as passionate about wanting to see
someone fail and struggle as they are about another's success.
He's one of the most hated people in boxing, and that's his own doing.
He created the Money May persona and works tirelessly to fuel the fire because he knows
that people will pay for the chance to not only witness his greatness, but also his failure.
For every hater there is a fan just as fierce in his or her appreciation.
But, and this is the important part…the hater and the fan both watch the fight.
In fact, his self-promotion is so great, and so amazing, it's just absolutely still insane
to me that we're actually about to witness a fight between Floyd Mayweather and Conor
McGregor, who's no slouch in the marketing department as well.
Like I said before, and I'll say it again, if this is strictly a boxing match, Conor
has no chance.
And vice versa!
1 - Business Skills
From a financial standpoint, there has never been a more successful professional prizefighter
than Floyd Mayweather Jr.
That has just as much to do with his negotiation tactics as it does with his skills and training.
You can argue his career six ways from Sunday, but he broke all sorts of money records and
generated tremendous attention for the sport.
Mayweather has a certain authority when it comes to money and boxing, and there is no
denying that.
Mayweather is a man who wears multiple hats – boxer, businessman, and sole self-promoter,
all of which brought in $85M last year and landed him a ranking of #1 in Forbes Sports
100 athletes.
His business acumen and knowledge of the revenue stream within boxing lead to the creation
of Mayweather Promotions, allowing him full control of the income flow.
In doing this he is able to provide himself with 100% of the revenue generation from his
fights, versus the 40-50% that other boxers get.
Boxing and all professional sports will always be a business, and no one has made more than
Mayweather.
Mayweather is a master marketer and no one has been a better promoter than Mayweather
himself.
The financials of boxing may have far overshadowed the pure sport of boxing, as certain dream
fights are just extremely tough to put together.
This may be an industry problem that Mayweather helped to create in the first place, but we've
yet to see anyone who can play the money system as well as Floyd "Money" Mayweather.
But hey, I can't knock the hustle, all I can say is don't hate the player hate the
game, because getting my brains bashed in and not getting paid isn't exactly a predicament
I'd like
to be in as a boxer.
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