Meet the boxer of the year 2013, Floyd Mayweather Jr

New Delhi: Year 2013 is just approaching towards its end and it is time we go back and analyze the performances of players and then select the top one.Boxing arena witnessed enormous fights between the heavyweights of the game and the king of the ring of 2013 became Floyd Mayweather. Floyd Mayweather, Jr. born on 24 February 1977 is an American professional boxer who is currently undefeated as a professional. He is a five-division world champion, having won eight world titles and the lineal championship in three different weight classes. Mayweather is a two-time Ring magazine Fighter of the Year (winning the award in 1998 and 2007), he has also won the Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA) Fighter of the Year award in 2007 and the Best Fighter ESPY Award in 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2013. Mayweather is the standard bearer for the hard old game just when it needs a champion emeritus to snub the abolitionists and attract a wider audience.Mayweather defied the iron-bar rust of a spell in prison to paint masterpieces on the canvas of the Las Vegas ring. Two men with reputations as the toughest guys in town – one seasoned by experience, the other young and hungry came for their run at Money. Robert Guerrero and Canelo Alvarez were both bedazzled in 2013 by the slick skills and elusive movement of Mayweather the magician.And the hallmark of Mayweather's greatness is that it is rooted in dedication and hard work. That is the mantra to which he plugs away in his gym and it is that ethic which is enabling him to rule the boxing arena in his late 30s while excelling his sport and banking hundreds of millions along the way.Floyd Mayweather topped the Forbes and Sports Illustrated lists of the 50 highest-paid athletes of 2012 and 2013.