Undefeated pound-for-pound king Floyd Mayweather Jr. had an unbelievable 50-0 professional record. Mayweather began his professional boxing journey with a TKO win against Robert Apodaca in Las Vegas in October of 1996, amassing 49 more wins capped off by a victory over mixed martial arts legend Conor McGregor in the Irish firebrand’s boxing debut. Mayweather came onto the boxing scene by making the 1996 US Olympic team, where he earned a bronze medal. Many believe he was robbed of a chance at gold when he lost controversially on points 10-9 during his semi-final bout against Bulgarian boxer Serarfim Todorov.

Mayweather, nevertheless, was able to parlay his performance in the 1996 Games to one of the best professional boxing careers of all-time. Offered here is a pair of blue boxing shorts used by Mayweather for training as he prepared for the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. Mayweather would face four fighters, winning three of those matches and this is a wonderful opportunity to own a training-worn item from his amateur career. These Adidas trunks are blue and red nylon satin with white trim at the waistband and at the double piping on each leg. The Adidas size M tag is sewn on the inside center rear waistband. These trunks do not display any use and come with a LOA from Craig R. Hamilton, who notes in his LOA that “It is my conclusion these boxing trunks were supplied to Floyd Mayweather, Jr. for the 1996 Olympic Games, but he chose not to wear them.”

Please note that this lot title in the catalog was mistakenly listed on Lot 1416

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