Al Haymon (born April 21, 1955) is an American businessman and boxing manager.
Haymon was raised in Cleveland, Ohio, and studied economics at Harvard.
His first career was in music promotion, where he promoted such acts as M. C. Hammer, New Edition, Whitney Houston, Janet Jackson, Mary J. Blige and Rick James.
[1] Over the next decade, he gained considerable influence in boxing, mainly due to his connection to Floyd Mayweather Jr.[1] In 2005 and 2013, he won the Al Buck Award (Manager of the Year) from the Boxing Writers Association of America.
[3] Haymon founded Premier Boxing Champions, which held its first event in 2015.