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. . 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 .