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Jeff Mayweather bashes Floyd
Floyd's uncle, former contender and trainer Jeff Mayweather, says that Floyd has been a detriment to himself with his gangsta image. "He got caught up in that hip hop bullsh*t. Floyd went down the wrong path and buying into this image of cars and jewelry and making himself look like a fool. He's acting like he's n*gga rich. As an athlete that made 40 million dollars already, why would he have to project that image at all?"
"Pretty Boy's" autobiography will probably read like a Horatio Alger novel. "I looked up to drug dealers because that's where I came from," says Floyd Junior. "My father was a drug dealer, my mother was on drugs. It was never a cake walk for me."
"He never had one bad day," says Jeff Mayweather. "I don't give a f*ck about his father selling drugs. His father was providing for him. He never had his son out selling drugs. His mother was a crackhead, but she never did sh*t for him anyway. When he talks about that, those are just images. While his parents were out messing up, his Grandmother was raising him. That's who was taking care of him."
Most of Floyd's image stems from his open defiance of convention and standards, the standoffish look-at-me-now attitude that suggests a desire to be seen as a great entity his way. Jeff Mayweather claims that the persona of Floyd is merely a false representation of who he is as a person.
"How could you be a thug when you haven't done nothing your whole life?" Jeff Mayweather asked of his nephew rhetorically. "You never were in the hood, you never did nothing but box your whole life. You never had to struggle, you weren't starving. That whole story about him wanting for things is bullsh*t. At some point in his life he decided that this is the image he wanted to project because it's a facade."
The youngest uncle of Floyd claims that he hasn't spoken to his nephew in 8 years. "We don't have anything to talk about. What are we gonna talk about, 50 Cent? Snoop Dogg? You want to be like 50 Cent? Go get shot nine times."
Nonetheless, Floyd's incredible talent does continue to enthrall and fascinate young fans, who are the most impressionable among observers. Like Muhammad Ali, Ray Leonard, and Roy Jones before him, he is the fighter that kids at the local boxing gyms strive to emulate, but 12-year-olds don't buy tickets. The crowd that buys tickets to boxing fights are influenced by the media. That's where Floyd Junior's negative image most reveals itself as a detriment. "It's his personality," says Jeff Mayweather. "That's why Floyd's not accepted. The way he lives his life."
Shortly before the De La Hoya fight, Floyd Junior briefly opened his camp to his father Floyd Sr. to replace the then-incarcerated Roger Mayweather. The conflict was that Floyd Senior was the trainer of "The Golden Boy", which in turn led to the severing of Floyd Senior's primary source of income.
"It was a tough decision to make," says Jeff of his brother Floyd Senior, "but the only decision he should've made was to put himself out of the situation. His son hasn't done anything for him, except for treat him with no respect. His son used him to get under De La Hoya's skin. I think that worked out, but he also collapsed his father's livelihood in the process."
The Floyd Mayweathers' have long had a strained relationship, which became irreparable when, at age 15, the young Floyd Junior parted ways with his father, who was on his way to prison for selling drugs. For five years Floyd Junior was his own man, an independence he had never previously enjoyed.
"Once he got that feeling, "says Jeff, "he never wanted to be back in that situation. It's a sad situation that can never be fixed, unless little Floyd becomes a man."
"It was like a Joe Jackson situation, where he created this monstrous machine, but he wasn't able to teach him how to be a man. Don't get me wrong, Floyd Senior accomplished making his son into a great fighter. Joe Jackson was successful in making Michael Jackson into probably the greatest entertainer ever. But look at him as a person. Just like Floyd is a great fighter, but look at him as a person. Sometimes that's the price that you pay when you focus on only one thing."
HBO's 24/7 show profiled the contrast between De La Hoya and Mayweather. Oscar, as usual, was depicted as the good guy. Floyd was cast as the villain. Jeff Mayweather feels that Floyd missed out on an opportunity to alter public perception of himself. "Floyd's not even intelligent enough to realize how he's being portrayed. He could've shown people that he was an alright guy. Sadly, he doesn't realize he's being made a fool of on national TV. It's an embarrassment to me and my last name."
He say's some things that kind of ring true, but he also comes across as bitter. That was the worst thing I have ever read about Floyd and it's coming from his own family.
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