Billionaire boxer Floyd Mayweather's 10 rules for success

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What kind of success? If success is making millions upon millions... then he could've stopped at one. Being good enough at what you do... and getting millions and millions to shell out good money to watch you perform.

But having Floyd lecturing anyone on success is a bit weird, in the broader context of success.

Can't imagine he'll ever be a big draw on the lecture tour.

Anybody who does what Floyd has done definitely has some good advice in there somewhere. The problem is that you have to search through the idiocy to find it. One thing that Floyd isn’t is a motivational speaker with common sense. I can’t take away from him his hard work and ability to know how to get people to watch him

I think we differ a bit on that. IMO, Floyd just "fell" into his good fortune. Not saying he didn't work hard, as I'm fully aware of his work ethic in boxing. That, plus his God-given talent, is what took him to the heights he scaled. However, the legions of people who paid to either see him win or get squashed wasn't by design. I don't think there was a contrived, planned-out effort to create this boxing persona that people either loved or loved to hate. Rather, I think it was just part of Floyd's outsized personality combined with the success he had in the ring. If only he was as smart as some people give him credit for, there might be hope for a new generation of boxing promoters that could increase the sport's popularity. But Floyd has always been about Floyd.

Floyd was #2 p4p behind Roy Jones and non boxing fans had no idea who he was. He was pretty boy Floyd. Him becoming the bad guy of boxing was contrived it seems. He was always good but it wasn’t until he became outspoken that he started making money. He became money Mayweather.