Celebrity Feature

Widely known for her work as Zola on the popular TV series Grey’s Anatomy, where she has appeared as the on-screen daughter of star Ellen Pompeo for the last 8 years. She began her time on the show in its 11th season and had a critical storyline in the exit of her on screen mommy, Meredith Grey. Her role on Grey’s Anatomy was her first major acting role, and provided her a larger breakthrough in the entertainment industry. Aniela’s older brother is Khamani Griffin is also a popular actor who made his debut in the 2003 movie Daddy Day Care, and was a series regular on All Of Us and Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader? He also appeared in a 2009 episode of Grey’s Anatomy.

Floyd Mayweather Sr. is a former professional boxer who competed for 17 years, from 1973 to 1990, and he is currently a boxing trainer. He is the former trainer of his son, Floyd Mayweather Jr, who is currently the undefeated five-division boxing champion. Mayweather Sr. comes from a family of champions, with his younger brother, Roger, being the WBC super featherweight and super lightweight champion, and his younger brother, Jeff, holding the IBO super featherweight title. Mayweather Sr. himself holds quite an impressive boxing record as well, with 28 wins, 6 losses, and 1 tie, including 18 TKOs. He also won the U.S. Championship Tournament in 1977.

Ray Mercer is a former professional boxer, kickboxer, and mixed martial artist whose professional career ran for 20 years, from 1989 to 2009. Although he was skilled in several sports, he is most known for his boxing career, winning a heavyweight gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics and later holding the WBO heavyweight title from 1991 to 1992. While he has an outstanding boxing career, he made a huge impact on the mixed martial arts world, scoring an incredible knockout win over a former two-time UFC heavyweight champion.

Tony Weeks is a well-known boxing referee with almost 30 years of experience and refereeing over 800 games in his career. His countless skills as a referee has earned him a highly respected status in the boxing world. Along with being the referee for hundreds of boxing matches, he has also officiated UFC matches through his career. At the start of his career as a referee, he was working as a recreational supervisor at a federal prison, introducing boxing to the inmates he watched. He officiated a match in 1996 and had his first officiated match on television in 2000. He continues to referee for high status fights today.

Roy Jones is a former professional boxer who competed for nearly 20 years. Throughout his professional career, he held several world championships in four weight classes, which include super middleweight, middleweight, heavyweight and light heavyweight. He is also the only boxer in the history of the sport to start his professional career at the light middleweight ranking and later win a heavyweight title. BoxRec has ranked him as the 29th greatest pound-for-pound fighter of all time, and he holds the record for most wins in unified light heavyweight titles as of 2018. Although his professional career is phenomenal, he had an incredible amateur career as well, with a win in the 1984 U.S. National Junior Olympics and wins in the U.S. National Golden Gloves of 1986 and 1987.

Shawn Porter is a former professional boxer who competed from 2008 to 2021, a total of 13 years. He was a two-time welterweight world champion, holding the IBF title from 2013 to 2014 and the WBC title from 2018 to 2019. In 2021, he was ranked by BoxRec as the world’s third best active welterweight, also being ranked fourth by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board and The Ring magazine. Through his amateur boxing career, he collected a record of 276 wins and 14 losses, winning the U.S. Golden Gloves Championship in 2007.

Jesse Vargas is a Mexican American former world champion in two weight classes. In 2014, he held the WBA (Regular) and IBO super lightweight titles, along with the WBO welterweight title in 2016. BoxRec has ranked him as the world’s eleventh best active welterweight. In the days before his professional career, he had an amateur career record of 120 wins and 20 losses. Through his professional career, he was a two-time U.S. junior national champion, a two-time Mexican national champion, and he was on Mexico’s team in the 2008 Olympics.

Michael Nunn competed as a professional boxer for 18 years, from 1984 to 2002. In his professional career, he was a two-weight world champion, holding the IBF middleweight title for three years and the WBA super middleweight title for two years. Along with these two champion titles, he held the lineal championship. During his amateur career, he posted an amateur record of 168 wins and 8 losses, he won three Iwo Golden Gloves titles, and he was a well-sought candidate for the 1984 Olympic trials.

Hasim Rahman is a two-time world heavyweight champion who competed for 20 years, from 1994 to 2014. He held several titles in 2001, some of which include WBC, IBF, and IBO, and he regained the WBC title a few years later, from 2005 to 2006, leading him to earn full champion status by the end of 2005. Through his career, Rahman has been ranked by BoxRec as the world’s top 10 heavyweight, reaching his highest ranking of world number 6 in 2004.