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BOXING: CONFIDENT MAYWEATHER TO DEFEND HIS TITLE.


Byline: Daily News and Wire Services

Floyd Mayweather Floyd Mayweather is the name of two persons, father and son:
  • Floyd Mayweather Sr., the father, former boxing contender and current trainer
  • Floyd Mayweather, Jr., the son, multiple division boxing champion
 Jr. had toned down his ego-driven rhetoric since remarks he made earlier in his career turned the world against him.

Now, as he prepares to defend his WBC WBC white blood cell; see leukocyte.

WBC
abbr.
white blood cell


WBC,
n stands for white
blood
cell.
 junior lightweight junior lightweight
n. In both senses also called super featherweight.
1. A weight division in professional boxing having an upper limit of 130 pounds (58.5 kilograms), between featherweight and lightweight.

2.
 championship against Carlos Hernandez tonight in his home town of Grand Rapids Grand Rapids, city (1990 pop. 189,126), seat of Kent co., SW central Mich., on the Grand River; inc. 1850. The second largest city in the state, it is a distribution, wholesale, and industrial center for an area that yields fruit, dairy products, farm produce, , Mich., he appears to have toned the rhetoric back up.

``I'm the best athlete in the world, hands down,'' he said. ``Athletes like Kobe Bryant Kobe Bean Bryant (born July 23 1978(1978--)) is an American All-Star shooting guard in the National Basketball Association (NBA) who plays for the Los Angeles Lakers. , he can have an off night and still be the great Kobe Bryant. Tiger Woods can lose 10 golf tournaments in a row and still be the great Tiger Woods.

``... But in boxing, you can't have an off night. In boxing, if you have an off night, they'll dog you, they'll eat you up, they'll destroy you. Your payday drops, you lose your contract. But right now, I'm dominating everyone they put in front of me and doing it with ease, guys like Genaro Hernandez, Angel Manfredy, Diego Corrales.

``I'm not bragging or boasting. It's the truth.''

Mayweather (25-0, with 19 knockouts) probably isn't the best athlete in the world. However, he has never failed to back up his prodigious mouth.

And Hernandez (33-2-1, 21 KOs), a solid but limited contender from Los Angeles, probably doesn't have the tools to contend with the remarkably quick champion. Hernandez reportedly is an 18-1 underdog.
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Publication:Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Date:May 26, 2001
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