Monday, 10th January 2005 (4343 views)

World Boxing Council champion 'Pretty Boy' Floyd Mayweather Jr is reportedly the poster boy for boxing bling.

The sport has become increasingly associated with jewellery excess in the past few years and the 27-year old fighter, who owns bejewelled boxing gloves, is an enthusiastic exponent.

When on the road, Mayweather's jewels are carried by an assistant in an unobtrusive black leather attache case. The case contains myriad gold chains, pendants, watches, bracelets and rings, mostly in gold or platinum, embedded with large-carat diamonds.

The boxer's favourite piece, The Observer newspaper reports, is a 'Ferrari horse' fashioned by celebrity jeweller Mordechai, which features more than 600 diamonds, in blocks of black, white and yellow, totalling 120 carats and set in an invisible setting.

The horse took more than three months to make and cost Mayweather £100,000.

"I'm the master," he told the paper. "I know all about jewellery. People say I'm cocky and arrogant, but I say, in reply, that I'm confident and slick."

 

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