His nickname in the ring is 'The Money.' He's recognized as the greatest pound-for-pound boxer of his generation, and perhaps the greatest who ever lived. He's never lost a single fight in the ring, and he's amassed a huge fortune with all his victories. How is it, then, that Floyd Mayweather Jr is actually nowhere near as rich as he likes to try to convince people he is?
If you guessed 'because he owes tax money,' then you just won ten points. Mayweather has been playing cat and mouse with the IRS for more than a decade, but the cat always wins in the end, and they want more than $20m from Mayweather. That might explain why, at the tail end of his career, Mayweather began doing things that seemed beneath him, such as taking that big-money circus of a fight with UFC star Conor McGregor. If he can't straighten out his tax affairs, we may yet see him fight again.