Mayweather’s success is a far cry from the poverty, drugs and crime he grew up in as a child.
“When I was about eight or nine… we were seven deep in one bedroom and sometimes we didn’t have electricity,” Mayweather recalls in the book “Money: The Life and Fast Times of Floyd Mayweather.”
“No heat, no water no nothing. Nothing. I basically raised myself,” he says. His father sold drugs and was eventually incarcerated and his mother was a heavy drug user, so his grandmother raised him.
“When people see what I have now, they have no idea of where I came from,” Mayweather says in the book, adding that his grandmother did the best she could. He eventually quit high school so he could provide for his family.
Yet even with his ongoing struggles, Mayweather continued to train daily. He developed quickly as a fighter and the rest, as we know, is history.
The boxer, who is now a five-division world champion with a record of 49 wins and zero losses, is hoping to add another win, plus a few million dollars, to his name after this weekend’s match.
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