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says Mayweather isn't telling the truth about their early relationship. "I always thought that he liked his daughter (Floyd's older stepsister) better than he liked me because she never got whippings and I got whippings all the time."įloyd Sr. "I don't remember him ever taking me anywhere or doing anything that a father would do with a son, going to the park or to the movies or to get ice cream," he says. The most time that his father spent with him was taking him to the gym to train and work on his boxing, according to Mayweather. "People don't know the hell I've been through," he says. His mother was also addicted to drugs and he had an aunt who died from AIDS because of her drug use. It was nothing for young Floyd to come home from school and find used heroin needles in his front yard. "Either way, I'm just happy I didn't get shot and I'm still here." "My father said he was holding me and he said, 'If you're going to shoot me, you're going to shoot the baby, too.' But my mother said he used me as a shield to keep from getting shot. "It depends on which side of the family you talk to," Mayweather Jr. He says that when he was a baby, his father used him as a shield to keep his brother-in-law from shooting him. His punishment of little Floyd was often harsh and brutal, according to Mayweather Jr. That job made him a mean taskmaster at home. Mayweather's father, Floyd Sr., had a side job - selling drugs. Mayweather was born with his mother's last name, but his last name would change to Mayweather shortly thereafter.
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was a former welterweight contender who fought Hall of Famer Sugar Ray Leonard and his uncles Jeff Mayweather and Roger Mayweather were all professional boxers, with Roger – Floyd’s current trainer – winning two World championships. Mayweather was born in Grand Rapids, Mich., into a family of boxers. "When people see what I have now, they have no idea of where I came from and how I didn't have anything growing up." "When I was about 8 or 9, I lived in New Jersey with my mother and we were seven deep in one bedroom and sometimes we didn't have electricity," Mayweather says. "When I was young, I told her, 'I think I should get a job.' She said, 'No, just keep boxing. "I think my grandmother saw my potential first," Mayweather said, smiling.
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He never seriously considered any other profession. When other children were throwing baseballs or footballs, he was throwing punches. He was formerly rated as the "number one" pound-for-pound best boxer in the World by most sporting news and boxing websites, including The Ring, BoxRec, Sports Illustrated, ESPN, BBC Sports and Yahoo! Sports but was removed from the rankings due to retirement and currently due to inactivity.īoxing has been a part of Mayweather's life since he was in diapers. He is undefeated as a professional boxer.Ĭurrently, Mayweather is the WBC World Welterweight Champion. He is a two-time The Ring "Fighter of the Year" winning the award in 19 and also Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA) "Fighter of the Year" in 2007. He is a five-division World champion, where he has won ten World titles, including the lineal championship in three different weight classes.
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