Estelle Mossely aims to emulate Mayweather and become 'the biggest boxer in the world'

Estelle Mossely is an Olympic gold medallist, a world champion in her sport and, since making the move into boxing’s paid ranks, has reeled off nine wins from her nine professional bouts.

It’s the sort of CV that has prompted her promoter to label her, as promoters are wont to do, already the best female pound-for-pound in the world. The promoter, the vastly experienced Richard Schafer now president at new stable Probellum, also compared Mossley in talent to none other than Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Yet Mossely, 29, smiles simply at the suggestion.

“I think every boxer is different,” the Frenchwoman tells The National from Paris, not long out from her headline fight at the first of two Probellum events next week in Dubai. “But I think I can be the best boxer in the world, maybe in one year.

“It’s right that, when I talk with Richard, I feel that this history and this objective is possible: to be the biggest champion and the biggest boxer in the world.

“But Estelle is Estelle, Mayweather is Mayweather. I will not compare. Every boxer has their own identity. But his ambition and my ambition are to be the best boxer in the world, and to have only wins in my career.”

Mayweather, long since retired from meaningful boxing, called time at 50-0, one of only a handful of truly elite boxers that can claim to have gone through their career undefeated. For Mossely, even this early into her professional journey, that matters. The “0” must not go.

“It’s very important,” she says. “I like perfection. It’s really important for me to box, to fight, but to fight with the best, to do the best fight every time. Winning is important, but for me it’s not only to win, it’s make a good fight, don’t have a lot of damage. Like Mayweather.

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