Floyd Mayweather's Ex-Sparring Partner Shares Shocking Story About His KO Power

There has been a number of tales told about how relentless Floyd Mayweather Jr. was when in the gym. A former sparring partner recently shared another one.

Despite boasting a 50-0 professional boxing record, many still doubt Mayweather’s knockout power. With just 27 KO wins to his name, it will be hard for the self-proclaimed “TBE” (the best ever) to convince boxing fans that he possesses some devastating power in his fists.

However, Mayweather’s former sparring partner, super welterweight boxer Ashley Theophane, isn’t one of them, as he claimed to have seen the unbeaten boxer actually send guys face-first to the canvas.

According to Theophane, sparring Mayweather was “fun,” but he also confessed that he used to duck “Money” because he was seeing “a lot” of his sparring partners getting KO’d at the time.

”To spar Floyd was fun,” Theophane recently told Fred Talks Fighting. “I actually asked [for] a spar with Floyd before I signed with Mayweather Promotions. So I’d ask to spar him, then they said I’d call.”

”So I was like, damn, I don’t want to spar him now because like now I’m saying to him I don’t want to spar him, and then he’s like, ‘Oh you ain’t as good as I thought,’” he continued. “And he was like, at that time, he was like, running through a lot of these guys, a lot of them got KO’ed and stuff. I was like, ‘Oh damn man, I’m next.’”

Theophane added, “A lot of guys who went in the ring with Floyd [were] scared. They just got their nerves and stuff.”

This wasn’t the first time a wild story about Mayweather beating people up in the gym was told. Last year, former welterweight champion Dmitry Salita, who used to train with Mayweather, recalled what happened to a “heavyweight” guy who came to the gym asking for a good boxing match some years ago.

According to Salita, Mayweather heard the guy and immediately asked his assistant Leonard Ellerbe to get his gear “from the car” as he was about to take up the challenge. Shortly after the fight began, the challenger got dropped by Mayweather.

“This guy comes into the gym, a heavyweight, and said ‘I wanna get some boxing.’ And he was just talking a lot of smack,” Salita recalled.

“Floyd was like ‘Leonard, get my stuff from the car!’” he continued. “Floyd got in the ring with him, 30 seconds, (he does his) shoulder roll and block (the punches) and just that, hits the guy with a body shot and drops the guy. A heavyweight.”