Floyd Mayweather Jr. was a professional fighter.
The Best Fighter ESPY Award ( ESPY means Excellence in Sports Performance Yearly ) was created by the cable television network ESPN and has been presented annually since 2007 to the professional or amateur boxer or mixed martial artist , irrespective of nationality , gender , weight class , or sanctioning body or league , adjudged to be the best in a given calendar year . BoxRec or boxrec.com is a website dedicated to holding updated records of professional boxers , both male and female . Floyd Mayweather Jr. . Mayweather is a two-time winner of The Ring magazine 's Fighter of the Year award ( 1998 and 2007 ) , a three-time winner of the Boxing Writers Association of America ( BWAA ) Fighter of the Year award ( 2007 , 2013 , and 2015 ) , and a six-time winner of the Best Fighter ESPY Award ( 2007 -- 2010 , 2012 -- 2014 ) . Pound for pound is a term used in combat sports such as boxing or mixed martial arts to reflect an assessment as to who the better fighters are , regardless of size ( i.e. , regardless of weight class ) .