Floyd Mayweather Junior’s Family Background

Floyd Mayweather Junior’s Family Background

There are five boxers in the family.  The eldest boxer in the family is Floyd Mayweather Senor.  He has two brothers that are a boxer also namely: Roger Mayweather and Jeff Mayweather.  Mayweather Sr. has two sons that are a boxer also namely: Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Justine Jones which through DNA test he found out that he is his son.

     Floyd Mayweather Sr., Roger Mayweather and Jeff Mayweather turn trainers after their boxing career.  Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Justine Jones are still active boxers.

Father: Floyd Mayweather Sr.
Birth Name: Floyd Joy Mayweather
Born: 1952-10-19
Birthplace: Bronx, New York, USA
Nationality: US American
Hometown: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Boxing Record: won 28 (KO 18)  + lost 6 (KO 2)  + drawn 1  = 35 rounds boxed 234 KO% 51.43 
Manager: Hank Grooms
Boxing Career

     ·    Two-time Michigan Golden Gloves Champion (1973 & 1974)

     ·    As a professional, Mayweather was ranked among the top ten welterweights in the world until he was stopped by Sugar Ray Leonard.

     ·    Shortly after fighting Leonard, Mayweather was shot in the leg during a family dispute. The injury almost halted his career.

Training Career

     ·    Claims to be "the greatest trainer in the world."

     ·    Mayweather has trained Floyd Mayweather Jr., Oscar De La Hoya, Joan Guzman, and Chad 

          Dawson.

     ·    Awarded "Trainer of the Year" by the World Boxing Hall of Fame in 2003, 2006, and 2008

     ·    Received the WBC "Lifetime Achievement Award"

Roger Mayweather (uncle of Mayweather Jr.)

Alias: Black Mamba
Born: 1961-04-24
Birthplace: Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
Nationality: US American
Hometown: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Boxing Record: won 59 (KO 35)  + lost 13 (KO 6)  + drawn 0  = 72 rounds boxed 516 KO% 48.61 
Stance: Orthodox
Height: 5′ 7½″ / 171cm
Reach: 73½″ / 187cm
Trainer: Jesse Reid
Manager: Bill Baxter
Career Summary

Roger Mayweather was a two-time world champion. His first world title was the WBC super featherweight title, which he held from 1983 to 1984. He eventually moved up to light welterweight and captured the WBC title 1987, which he held until 1989. He later would capture the IBO light welterweight and IBO welterweight titles. Mayweather closed out his title wins by capturing the lightly regarded IBA welterweight belt.

He briefly stylized himself as the "Mexican Assassin", after a string of victories, most by knockout, over a series of world class Mexican fighters in Los Angeles between 1986 and 1989. This led to his second meeting with Mexico's top fighter Julio Cesar Chavez, who stopped him in ten rounds.

Mayweather was known for having good boxing skills, long arms, and a good right hand. However, he was widely considered by most boxing observers as having a bad chin.

Post-Fighting Career

He trained his nephew Floyd. He drew national attention after he entered the ring in the 10th round of Floyd's April 8, 2006 bout with Zab Judah, after his nephew was fouled by Judah near the end of the round. Mayweather was promptly suspended for one year and fined $200,000 by the Nevada State Athletic Commission.

Legal Troubles

August 3, 2009 - Mayweather, 48, was arrested on felony coercion and battery-strangulation charges and later freed from the Clark County jail on $13,000 bail, said Detective Ramon Denby, a police department spokesman. According to a police report, an officer responding to a disconnected 911 call found Mayweather fighting with a 25-year-old woman at the apartment in northwest Las Vegas. The woman, professional boxer Melissa St Vil, told police she had been punched in the ribs and hit Mayweather with a lamp during a struggle. She was treated by paramedics at the scene and taken to a Las Vegas hospital for treatment of injuries that included redness around her throat, police said. Mayweather had injuries on the head and the side of his face. It was not clear if he required medical treatment before he was taken to jail. The report says Mayweather formerly trained the St Vil, and had been following her since she severed their business relationship and went to another gym. It said Mayweather owns the apartment and was upset that his tenant was letting the woman live at the apartment. The tenant was not home at the time of the alleged attack, police said. 

Jeff Mayweather (uncle of Mayweather Jr.)

Alias: Jazzy

Born: 1964-07-04

Birthplace: Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA

Nationality: US American

Hometown: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Boxing Record: won 32 (KO 10)  + lost 10 (KO 2)  + drawn 5  = 47 rounds boxed 339 KO% 21.28

Stance: Orthodox

Career Summary

"Jazzy" Jeff Mayweather, known by the boxing media as the quiet Mayweather, boxed from super featherweight to light welterweight. He was a super featherweight IBO titleholder. He is the brother of Floyd Mayweather and Roger Mayweather, and the uncle of Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Justin Jones, Mayweather was the trainer of former WBO Heavyweight Sultan Ibragimov.

Justine Jones (half brother of Mayweather Jr.)

Is a promising amateur light-middleweight out of the Mayweather family's hometown of Grand Rapids, Mich., discovered from a DNA test that Floyd Mayweather Sr is his father.

This makes Jones a younger (paternal) brother of former Pound for Pound King and five division champion Floyd Mayweather Jr., and a nephew of former world boxing champions Roger Mayweather and Jeff Mayweather.  Mayweather Sr has taken over training of his newly, discovered son, Jones.