Floyd Mayweather retired from professional boxing with a perfect 50-0 record and has since been having fun and making a lot of money through various exhibition bouts.
‘Money’ beat a total of 16 world champions inside the squared circle and won titles in five different weight classes. You have to go as far back as 1996 for his last loss, which came at the Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.
Mayweather was just 19 years of age at the time and took on Serafim Todorov of Bulgaria in the semi-final.
He was eight years older than Mayweather and his experienced proved key as he beat ‘Pretty Boy’ 10-9 on the scorecards, meaning Mayweather collected a bronze medal.
Three-time gold medalist Todorov progressed to the final and took home the silver medal after suffering a defeat to Somluck Kamsing of Thailand.
Mayweather quickly recovered from the set-back and has gone on to become the richest and most successful boxer by some distance – claiming his super fight with Conor McGregor resulted in him becoming a billionaire.
The same cannot be said for Todorov, who turned down an offer from a group of promoters in the United States and later tried to represent Turkey at the 1997 World Amateur Boxing Champions because he felt his home nation were not giving him the correct backing.
The national allegiance switch did not happen though, with the Bulgarian Boxing Federation standing firm. As a result, Todorov would retire from boxing 2003.
After 12 years away, he returned to the ring in 2015 at the age of 46 and beat Aleksandar Chukaleiski via unanimous decision in a four-round welterweight contest, as per Boxing News Online.
That same year, however, the New York Times did a detailed piece on him and revealed he was living on a pension that pays him just $435 per month. He didn’t even have a flat screen TV the last time he was heard from.
Living in a modest first-floor unit in Pazardzhik with his wife, son and daughter-in-law, his jobs have varied from working as a driver, in a grocery store and in a sausage factory.
Source: sportbible
