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Retired boxing champion Floyd Mayweather says he's now a billionaire

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There's a reason he's called Floyd "Money" Mayweather.

According to Forbes, the American athlete had amassed $700 million (£528 million) in career earnings before he even came to blows with Conor McGregor in August.

Mayweather said the bout with the UFC star would see his salary from sports blast past the billion-dollar barrier.

Now, just six weeks after his tenth round knockout victory over McGregor, Mayweather says he has achieved his goal. What's more, he's said it was "easy."

"I already made a billion dollars," he was heard shouting when he exited the Warwick club, an exclusive Los Angeles hangout, last weekend. "That was easy!"

And it's not all from fighting. Mayweather has financial interests outside of boxing.

He owns Girl Collection, a Las Vegas strip-club, in addition to a property portfolio. He has even backed a number of Initial Coin Offerings.

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Alan Dawson is Insider's combat sports correspondent. He moved to Las Vegas indefinitely after being shortlisted twice for Sports Journalist of the Year in 2020. He has twice been credited by the Boxing Writer's Association of America, is a Hall of Fame voter, and an MMA Journalists Association member. He joined Insider in 2017 as a reporter, was promoted to senior reporter in 2019, and then again to a correspondent in 2020, after establishing Insider Inc. as one of the best independent publications to follow in the fight sports industries. He is read by millions of people around the world every month. He has investigated the intersection of organized crime and boxing, uncovered possible bribery in sport, and has been ringside for some of the most iconic moments in combat sports including Fury-Wilder 2, Khabib Nurmagomedov's retirement, and Davis-Garcia. He has taken assignments in Europe, the Middle East, and across the U.S., and was one of the few credentialed reporters to cover the UFC during the pandemic era of sports when the company held MMA events behind-closed-doors in a bubble environment on Yas Island, Abu Dhabi. Dawson has been featured on Morning Kombat on Showtime, on BBC and GB News in the UK, and The Sun in Ireland. His work has been cited by CNN, The Telegraph, Forbes, USA Today, IB Times, Boxing Scene, World Boxing News, Sherdog, Bloody Elbow, The Sun, The Mirror, and Metro, as well as national media in Finland, Ukraine, Russia, Indonesia, Singapore, and Vietnam. Follow him on Twitter at @alandawsonsport.