Floyd Mayweather tickets remain the number one boxing ticket people want to buy today for one very good reason: Mayweather is the most powerful fighter out there, capable of switching weight classes and never losing any of that legendary punching ability, as well as an uncanny feel for exactly how much pressure to put on opponents as fights progress.

From Grand Rapids, Michigan, son of a former welterweight contender, and nephew of two welterweight champions, Floyd Mayweather Jr. is one of boxing’s greatest ever fighters.

Mayweather’s amateur career charted 84-6, no mean feat. Multiple Golden Gloves championships (in 1993, 1994 and 1996) set the stage for the emergence of a true star. Given the nickname “Pretty Boy” by amateur teammates due to a lack of scar tissue on his face, Mayweather was quickly recognized as a boxer who could defend himself as well as he could attack his opponent. The defensive skills taught him by father Floyd and uncle Roger were well learned, and were to contribute to Mayweather’s formidable presence – an intimidating combination of threat and impermeability. Mayweather adopts an orthodox defensive stance which often emplys the ’shoulder roll’, as he did against Marquez. The shoulder roll technique has the lead shoulder raised up before the cheek to cover the chin. A real punch to the chin, as any fighter knows, causes the head to suddenly buck to one side and the equilibrium is gone. No surprise then that many uppercuts and hooks send fighters to the canvass. Mayweather effectively blocks these punches and uses a natural upper-body strength to dodge and counter, as he rolls with his opponent’s fight pattern.

This style, along with an incorrigible wit and acerbic tongue, make Floyd Maywether Jr. one of the world’s most renowned boxers. It is intriguing that both Mayweather and his nemesis Pacquiao share claim to be the “best pound-for-pound fighter in the world”; when the two come together in the ring we shall know once and for all. Grab some red-hot Mayweather v. Pacquiao tickets today and be one of the chosen few who see this legendary bout live in the flesh!