\u2018I need to rectify situation\u2019 between myself and Floyd to repair relationship<\/strong><\/h2>\n\u201cMy favourite memory of Floyd was when he won his very first title. I was managing him. It was surreal because all the things we talked, dreamed and bragged about came to fruition.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn that night we both hugged and cried because all the stuff his dad said really came true. It was a special moment for both of us. He cried, I cried, we all cried because he was so young and he had fulfilled his dreams by becoming world champion.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen at one point I was no longer helping to train him, I was no longer his manager, and a lot of things changed. And when those things changed we went our separate ways.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that when you go your separate ways time passes quickly and you do not realise it. He signed with J Prince and he came in and he took my job, what can I do?<\/p>\n
\u201cThere’s not much I can do. He made that decision and that’s what happened. Then time got away from us, he’s doing his thing, I’m doing my thing. And between that time and now we haven’t had a whole lot of communication.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe talk, we see each other, but it’s not really like it used to be. It probably will never be like that again but being older and wiser, I’m the one that needs to rectify the situation.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’m not angry but it just happened one night and I could not sleep. I could not sleep for a whole week.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was thinking so much about whether there is anyone out there that I may have wronged that may have caused things between me and Floyd to change. All the time in between is now lost, all those years we could have had.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow my mission is to at least try to make the situation much better than it is. Life’s too short and I want to make sure whatever it is – I want to get it off my chest, and he hopefully wants to get it off his chest – and we can just be family because that’s what we are.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe became distant and after that we didn’t know how to come back together. But as I get older and wiser, that’s one relationship in my life that I need to repair.\u201d<\/p>\n
Floyd was built to be a champ at six by chopping trees and road running<\/strong><\/h2>\n\u201cOur entire family thought Floyd was special before he was six years old. The skills you see him with now, he could do those things as a kid.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt five years old he could do the shoulder roll because from the day he was born his dad didn’t give him a chance to choose to do anything but box.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou’re born and this is what you’re going to do as a career. His dad prepared him. At six years old you had a kid out running three miles with his dad following him in a car and people would think it’s crazy and ask who is this little kid out here running?<\/p>\n
\u201cHis dad was braggadocious. He’d say \u2018my son will be the best fighter to put on a pair of gloves\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cHis dad would have him chopping trees, running, boxing and he started so young it became second nature. He was in the gym everyday after school instead of playing other sports like other kids, he never got that chance to even think about playing basketball.<\/p>\n
\u201cFloyd never picked up a basketball until he was a teenager, he could play other sports very well too, but he didn’t know because he did not do anything else but box.<\/p>\n
\u201cBoxing was embedded in him from the day he was born. He had no choice in the matter. And his dad would yell it to anybody that would listen, he would say my son is going to be one the greatest fighters ever.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think his dad helped build the ego but I also think when you’re a young kid and you’re fighting kids much older than you and you’re much better than them,\u00a0 you get confidence.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy the time he was 15 he was boxing older guys. He’d be in there with guys who were 25, even 30 and he’d handle them.\u201d<\/p>\n
He beat me up in sparring at 16 – I was a world title contender<\/strong><\/h2>\n\u201cI remember one time we boxed – we had boxed from him being a young kid and of course I’d play with him – but after he was in the Olympic trials it was different.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe came out here to Vegas and Roger was training him and I sparred with him. And it was nothing like before, he had become a man.<\/p>\n
\u201cI could not play with him any more. I was a professional fighter and he was 16 years old and he got the better of him.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat’s how special he is.\u201d<\/p>\n
Top five greatest pound-for-pound fighters ever<\/strong><\/h2>\n\u201cFloyd Mayweather Jr, Ray Robinson, Muhammad Ali, Larry Holmes, Joe Louis.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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